New Report Analyzes Charter School Finances in New York, Ohio and Texas to Determine How Much Is Spent By Prominent Charter School Operators
Review of Milwaukee Parental Choice Program, Final Reports No. 29, 30 & 32
Review of Teachers in the Digital Age of Digital Instruction: Creating sound policy for digital learning
- Review of Our Immense Achievement Gap: Embracing Proven Remedies While Avoiding a Race-Based Recipe for Disaster
- Review of Overcoming the Governance Challenge in K-12 Online Learning
- Review of The Louisiana Recovery School District: Lessons for the Buckeye State
- Review of Gathering Feedback for Teaching: Combining High Quality Observation with Student Surveys and Achievement Gains
Think Twice is one of the nation’s first efforts to serve as a watchdog to review think tank research on public education issues and policies, ensuring that published work meets the quality and standards of university scholarship.
The goal of the Think Twice project is to provide the public, policy makers and the press with timely academically sound reviews of selected think tank publications.
The Think Twice project is funded by the Great Lakes Center for Education Research and Practice. The reviews that are a part of this project are expert third party reviews produced by the National Education Policy Center (NEPC).
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The Center funds policy briefs and reports on important education issues. Policy briefs and reports are written by recognized academic experts in each topic and include a summary of existing research available as well as policy recommendations. Briefs published in 2012 include:
Charting Equality: Using Charter School Legislation and Policy to Advance Equal Educational Opportunity
Julie F. Mead, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Preston C. Green III, Pennsylvania State University
The expansion of charter schools has led to classrooms being more segregated today than they were 30 years ago, according to this new policy brief. The brief provides policymakers with detailed recommendations on how to ensure all students have access to a quality education.
Accompanying this brief is a companion report which offers model legislation to carry out the author’s recommendations contained in the policy brief.
Policy Brief
Model Legislation
Creating Teacher Incentives for School Excellence and Equity
Barnett Berry, Center for Teaching Quality (Policy Brief)
Jon Eckert, Wheaton College (Policy Brief)
Scott R. Bauries, University of Kentucky College of Law (Legislative Brief)
A newly released report highlights incentives that can be much more effective in attracting and retaining quality teachers than simple merit pay programs. The report shows how merit pay programs that reward teachers based on their students' standardized test scores do little to improve student achievement and offers information on other incentives that could be more successful.
Policy Brief
Model Legislation
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