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Review of Qualified Education Expense Tax Credit: Economic Analysis

Think Twice - Sep 26, 2023

Review of Teacher Prep Review: Strengthening Elementary Reading Instruction

Think Twice - Sep 19, 2023

Evaluating Research That Alleges Funding Disparities Between Charter and District Schools

Policy Brief - Sep 12, 2023

Review of As a Matter of Fact: National Charter School Study III 2023

Think Twice - Sep 07, 2023

Review of Think Again: Is Education Funding in America Still Unequal?

Think Twice - Sep 05, 2023

Section 504 Plans: Examining Inequitable Access and Misuse

Policy Brief - Jun 08, 2023

Review of Think Again: Do Charter Schools Drain Resources From Traditional Public Schools?

Think Twice - May 18, 2023

Virtual Schools in the U.S. 2023

Policy Brief - May 11, 2023

Review of School Choice Is Not Enough: The Impact of Critical Social Justice Ideology in American Education

Think Twice - May 02, 2023

Review of Assessing the National Landscape of Capital Expenditures for Public School Districts

Think Twice - Apr 20, 2023

Consumer-Oriented School Rating Systems and Their Implications for Educational Equity

Policy Brief - Apr 13, 2023

Review of Public Education Funding Without Boundaries: How to Get K-12 Dollars to Follow Open Enrollment Students

Think Twice - Apr 06, 2023

The Effects of High-Performing, High-Turnover Teachers on Long-Run Student Achievement: Evidence From Teach for America

Think Twice - Mar 14, 2023

Review of The Economic Cost of the Pandemic: State by State

Think Twice - Mar 07, 2023

Review of K-12 Without Borders: Public School Students, Families, and Teachers Shut In by Education Boundaries

Think Twice - Mar 02, 2023

Review of The Ohio EdChoice Program’s Impact on School District Enrollments, Finances, and Academics

Think Twice - Feb 21, 2023

Review of Equal Is Not Good Enough: An Analysis of School Funding Equity Across the U.S. and Within Each State | Access Granted: School Funding Between Schools in Districts

Think Twice - Feb 14, 2023

Review of The System-Level Effects of Denver's Portfolio District Strategy: Technical Report

Think Twice - Feb 07, 2023

Review of Off Track: An Assessment of Wisconsin's Early Care and Learning System for Young Children

Think Twice - Jan 31, 2023

Review of Empowering Parents with School Choice Reduces Wokeism in Education

Think Twice - Jan 24, 2023

Review of Autonomous Schools Can Help Solve the Problem Behind the Teacher Shortage Problem

Think Twice - Jan 17, 2023

Review of For-Profit Charter Schools: An Evaluation of Their Spending and Outcomes

Think Twice - Dec 01, 2022

Review of #StudentsFirst: Empowering Parents to Help Students Regain Lost Learning

Think Twice - Nov 22, 2022

Improving Trauma-Informed Education: Responding to Student Adversity With Equity-Centered, Systemic Support

Policy Brief - Nov 15, 2022

Review of Some Assembly Required: How a More Flexible Learning Ecosystem Can Better Serve All Kids and Unlock Innovation

Think Twice - Nov 08, 2022

Pandemic Educational Models Remain Unproven

Think Twice - Oct 18, 2022

A Civil Rights Framework for the Reauthorization of ESEA

Policy Brief - Oct 11, 2022

The Science of Reading Movement: The Never-Ending Debate and the Need for a Different Approach to Reading Instruction

Policy Brief - Sep 13, 2022

Review of Michigan Student Opportunity Scholarships: Overview and Fiscal Analysis

Think Twice - Jul 14, 2022

State Accountability Rating Systems: A Review of School Report Cards as Indicators of School Quality

Policy Brief - Jun 22, 2022

Review of Addressing Teacher Shortages: Practical Ideas for the Pandemic and Beyond

Think Twice - May 24, 2022

"Grow Your Own" Programs: Examining Potential and Pitfalls for a New Generation of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color Community Teachers

Policy Brief - May 19, 2022

Summit Charter Organization Continues to Make Unjustified Claims

Think Twice - May 10, 2022

Review of From School Aid to Student Aid: Modernizing K-12 Funding in Michigan

Think Twice - May 03, 2022

Review of Find Documenting Inequitable Patterns in Spending by Parent Teacher Associations, Parent Teacher Organizations, and “Friends of” Fundraising Groups at Illinois Public Schools

Think Twice - Mar 29, 2022

Transgender Students and Policy in K-12 Public Schools: Acknowledging Historical Harms and Taking Steps Toward a Promising Future,

Policy Brief - Mar 23, 2022

Review of Fiscal Effects of School Choice: Analyzing the Costs and Savings of Private School Choice Programs in America

Think Twice - Mar 15, 2022

Review of Priced Out of Public Schools: District Lines, Housing Access, and Inequitable Educational Options

Think Twice - Mar 01, 2022

Review of The Unexamined Rise of Therapeutic Education: How Social-Emotional Learning Extends K-12 Education's Reach Into Students' Lives and Expands Teachers' Roles

Think Twice - Feb 21, 2022

Review of The Basic Education Program: How the Volunteer State's Education Funding Formula Doesn't Make the Grade

Think Twice - Feb 15, 2022

Review of Representation of Social Groups in U.S. Educational Materials and Why It Matters

Think Twice - Feb 08, 2022

Review of Equity Elementary: “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” Staff in Public Schools

Think Twice - Jan 25, 2022

Review of Charter School Funding: Dispelling Myths about EMOs, Expenditure Patterns, & Nonpublic Dollars

Think Twice - Jan 18, 2022

Review of How to Regulate Critical Race Theory in Schools: A Primer and Model Legislation

Think Twice - Dec 14, 2021

Review of Suspended Reality: The Impact of Suspension Policy on Student Safety

Think Twice - Dec 07, 2021

Review of Ohio's Lost Einsteins: The Inequitable Outcomes of Early High Achievers

Think Twice - Dec 02, 2021

Review of Accountability and Private-School Choice

Think Twice - Nov 15, 2021

Review of Education Savings Accounts: How ESAs Can Promote Educational Freedom for New York Families

Think Twice - Nov 09, 2021

Review of Charter School Funding: Support for Students with Disabilities

Think Twice - Sep 02, 2021

Review of Florida Versus Kentucky: School Choice Improves Public School Performance, Too

Think Twice - Jul 15, 2021

Review of The Effect of Constitutional Provisions on Education Policy and Outcomes

Think Twice - Jun 22, 2021

Education Freedom and Student Achievement: Is More School Choice Associated with Higher State-Level Performance on the NAEP?

Think Twice - Jun 15, 2021

The Economic Burden of Racism from the U.S. Education System

Policy Brief - Jun 10, 2021

Estimating a Price Tag for School Vouchers

Policy Brief - May 24, 2021

Virtual Schools in the U.S. 2021

Policy Brief - May 06, 2021

Review of The Drawbacks of Universal Pre-K: A Review of the Evidence

Think Twice - Apr 20, 2021

Review of Harnessing Micro-Credentials for Teacher Growth: A National Review of Early Best Practices

Think Twice - Apr 08, 2021

Youth Engagement in Collective Impact Initiatives: Lessons from Promise Neighborhoods

Think Twice - Mar 30, 2021

Review of Capitalism in the 1619 Project

Think Twice - Mar 23, 2021

Review of 2020 Teacher Prep Review: Clinical Practice and Classroom Management

Think Twice - Mar 16, 2021

The (Mis)Treatment and (Non)Education of Unaccompanied Immigrant Children in the United States

Policy Brief - Mar 08, 2021

Review of Language Counts: Supporting Early Math Development for Dual Language Learners

Think Twice - Mar 02, 2021

Review of Remote Learning Is Here to Stay

Think Twice - Feb 16, 2021

Review of School Accountability-Past, Present, and Future: Findings and Recommendations for State and District Policymakers

Think Twice - Feb 09, 2021

Review of Toward Equitable School Choice

Think Twice - Feb 04, 2021

Review of Religious Charter Schools: Legally Permissible? Constitutionally Required?

Think Twice - Jan 26, 2021

Review of The Third Way: A Guide to Implementing Innovation Schools

Think Twice - Jan 21, 2021

Review of Creating Strong Building Blocks for Every Student: How Middle Schools Can Lay the Foundation for Rigorous High School Pathways

Think Twice - Dec 08, 2020

Review of Changes in the Performance of Students in Charter and District Sectors of U.S. Education: An Analysis of Nationwide Trends

Think Twice - Dec 03, 2020

Review of Student Assessment During COVID-19

Think Twice - Oct 29, 2020

Rethinking 'Innovation Schools': Strengths and Limitations of AutonomyBased School Improvement Plans in Contexts of Widening Racial Inequality

Policy Brief - Oct 27, 2020

Review of Unleashing Educational Opportunity: The Untapped Potential of Expanded Tax Credit Scholarships

Think Twice - Oct 22, 2020

Review of: Making Next Year Count: Equity in School Accountability

Think Twice - Oct 15, 2020

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Review of Special Education and Distance Learning: Supporting Students Through the Pandemic

Think Twice - Sep 17, 2020

We All Want More Teachers of Color, Right?: Concerns and Considerations about the Emergent Consensus

Policy Brief - Jul 21, 2020

Big Claims, Little Evidence, Lots of Money: The Reality Behind the Summit Learning Program and the Push to Adopt Digital Personalized Learning Programs

Policy Brief - Jun 25, 2020

Review of Are Charter Schools Safer Than District-Run Schools? Evidence from Pennsylvania | Review of Effects of Charter School Competition on District School Budgeting Decisions: Experimental Evidence from Texas

Think Twice - Jun 09, 2020

Review of Comparing Ed Reforms: Assessing the Experimental Research on Nine K-12 Education Reforms

Think Twice - May 26, 2020

Review of Financial Crisis Looming for K-12 Schools? Flexibility Needed, Not Bailouts

Think Twice - May 07, 2020

Review of A Roadmap to Fix Arizona School Finance: Steering the Grand Canyon State Toward Fairness and Innovation in K-12 Education

Think Twice - Apr 14, 2020

Review of Public-Private Virtual-School Partnerships and Federal Flexibility for Schools during COVID-19

Think Twice - Apr 07, 2020

Review of Child Safety Accounts: Protecting Our Children through Parental Freedom

Think Twice - Mar 31, 2020

Report Provides Weak Justification for Expansion of Newark Charters

Think Twice - Mar 17, 2020

Review: Ripple Effect: How Expanding School Choice Programs Can Lead to More College Graduates and a Stronger Economy

Think Twice - Mar 10, 2020

Review of Measuring Student Poverty: Developing Accurate Counts for School Funding, Accountability, and Research

Think Twice - Mar 03, 2020

Tracking and the Future of Career and Technical Education: How Efforts to Connect School and Work Can Avoid the Past Mistakes of Vocational Education

Policy Brief - Feb 24, 2020

Investing for “Impact” or Investing for Profit? Social Impact Bonds, Pay for Success, and the Next Wave of Privatization of Social Services

Policy Brief - Feb 04, 2020

School Choice Advocacy Report Plays Regression Modeling Games to Make Its Case Against Public Schools

Think Twice - Jan 21, 2020

The Starts and Stumbles of Restorative Justice in Education: Where Do We Go from Here?

Policy Brief - Jan 14, 2020

Report on Academic Progress Is a Worthwhile Conversation Starter

Think Twice - Nov 26, 2019

Call for Lawmakers to Loosen School Advertising Restrictions Overlooks Real Costs to Students

Think Twice - Nov 19, 2019

Report About Charters Being a "Rising Tide" Sinks Under Weight of Flawed Data

Think Twice - Nov 14, 2019

Report about Homeschooling Overreaches on Claims

Think Twice - Nov 07, 2019

Report Advocates Privatizing Schools Overseas, but Without Convincing Evidence

Think Twice - Oct 31, 2019

Manhattan Institute Report Fails to Muster Solid Evidence to Support Vouchers

Think Twice - Oct 22, 2019

The Effects of Means Tested Private School Choice Programs on College Enrollment and Graduation

Think Twice - Oct 16, 2019

Fixing the Morass of Special Education Funding

Policy Brief - Jun 25, 2019

Student Achievement in Florida's Charter Schools: A Comparison of the Performance of Charter School Students with Traditional Public School Students

Think Twice - Jun 18, 2019

The 123s of School Choice: What the Research Says About Private School Choice: 2019 Edition

Think Twice - Jun 11, 2019

Charter Schools and District Enrollment Loss Do Charter Schools Cause Fiscal Distress in School Districts Do the Costs of California Charter Schools Outweigh the Benefits

Think Twice - May 30, 2019

Despite Serious Problems and a Lack of Research Support, Virtual Schools Continue to Spread as Policymakers Remain AWOL

Policy Brief - May 29, 2019

Multiple Shortcomings Mar Report Ranking Michigan High Schools

Policy Brief - Apr 30, 2019

The Michigan Context and Performance Report Card: High Schools 2018

Think Twice - Apr 18, 2019

Education System Alignment for 21st Century Skills: Focus on Assessment

Think Twice - Apr 02, 2019

The Effects of the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship Program on College Enrollment and Graduation: An Update

Think Twice - Mar 28, 2019

Report Advocating for More Charter School Facilities Funding Offers Scarce Rationale for Doing So

Think Twice - Mar 12, 2019

12 Myths and Realities about Private Educational Choice Programs

Think Twice - Mar 07, 2019

The Opportunity Myth: What Students Can Show Us About How School Is Letting Them Down—and How to Fix It

Think Twice - Jan 24, 2019

Our Next Assignment: Where Americans Stand on Public K-12 Education: A Review of Recent Opinion Research

Think Twice - Jan 15, 2019

How School Privatization Opens the Door for Discrimination

Policy Brief - Dec 06, 2018

Making a Difference: Six Places Where Teacher Evaluation Systems Are Getting Results

Think Twice - Dec 04, 2018

Everything You Know About State Education Rankings Is Wrong/Fixing the Currently Biased State K-12 Education Rankings

Think Twice - Nov 27, 2018

Money for Nothing: The Relationship Between Various Types of School Spending and Academic Outcomes

Think Twice - Oct 11, 2018

Fiscal and Education Spillovers from Charter School Expansion

Think Twice - Oct 04, 2018

Systems for Success: Thinking Beyond Access to AP

Think Twice - Sep 25, 2018

Time to Change Course: Reclaiming the Potential of Texas Charter Schools

Think Twice - Sep 11, 2018

Hard Work and Soft Skills: The Attitudes, Abilities, and Character of Students in Career and Technical Education

Think Twice - Jun 14, 2018

2018 Teacher Prep Review, National Council on Teacher Quality

Think Twice - Jun 12, 2018

A review of two reports on early childhood education (ECE) teacher preparation.

Think Twice - May 08, 2018

Do Impacts on Test Scores Even Matter?

Think Twice - May 03, 2018

Full-Time Virtual and Blended Schools: Enrollment, Student Characteristics, and Performance

Policy Brief - May 01, 2018

Charter Schools and the Achievement Gap

Think Twice - Apr 10, 2018

Unlocking Potential: How Political Skill Can Maximize Superintendent Effectiveness

Think Twice - Mar 06, 2018

Evaluation of the Teacher Incentive Fund: Final Report on Implementation and Impact of Pay-for-Performance Across Four Years

Think Twice - Feb 27, 2018

The Academic and Behavioral Consequences of Discipline Policy Reform: Evidence from Philadelphia

Think Twice - Feb 15, 2018

The State of Education Savings Account Programs in the United States

Policy Brief - Jan 23, 2018

When Degree Programs for Pre-K Teachers Go Online: Challenges and Opportunities

Think Twice - Jan 18, 2018

Student-Centered State Funding: A How-to Guide for State Policymakers

Think Twice - Jan 09, 2018

Why Indiana Parents Choose: A Cross-sector Survey of Parents’ views in a Robust School Choice Environment

Think Twice - Nov 21, 2017

Lights Off: Practice and Impact of Closing Low-Performing Schools

Think Twice - Oct 24, 2017

Charter School Funding: Inequity in New York City

Think Twice - Oct 11, 2017

Assessing the Fiscal Impact of Wisconsin’s Statewide Voucher Program

Policy Brief - Oct 05, 2017

Charter Management Organizations 2017

Think Twice - Sep 07, 2017

The Tax-Credit Scholarship Audit: Do Publicly Funded Private School Choice Programs Save Money?

Think Twice - Aug 24, 2017

Back to the Staffing Surge: The Great Teacher Salary Stagnation and the Decades-Long Employment Growth in American Schools

Think Twice - Jul 05, 2017

Renewing our Cities: A Case Study on School Choice’s Role in Urban Renewal / CPR Scholarships: Using Private School Choice to Attack Concentrated Poverty, Crime, and Unemployment

Think Twice - Jun 20, 2017

Hidden Money: The Outsized Role of Parent Contributions in School Finance

Think Twice - Jun 15, 2017

Community Schools: An Evidence-Based Strategy for Equitable School Improvement

Policy Brief - Jun 05, 2017

Understanding a Vicious Cycle: Do Out-of-School Suspensions Impact Student Test Scores?

Think Twice - Jun 01, 2017

School Closure as a Strategy to Remedy Low Performance

Policy Brief - May 18, 2017

New York Charter Schools Outperform Traditional Selective Public Schools: More Evidence that Cream-skimming is Not Driving Charters’ Success

Think Twice - May 09, 2017

Supplemental Education Services under NCLB: Emerging Evidence and Policy Issues

Policy Brief - May 01, 2017

Differences by Design? Student Composition in Charter Schools with Different Academic Models

Think Twice - Apr 13, 2017

A New Agenda: Research to Build a Better Teacher Preparation Program

Think Twice - Mar 28, 2017

Within Our Grasp: Achieving Higher Admission Standards in Teacher Prep

Think Twice - Mar 23, 2017

Reimagining Learning: A Big Bet on the Future of American Education

Think Twice - Mar 07, 2017

Measures of Last Resort: Assessing Strategies for State-Initiated Turnarounds

Think Twice - Feb 14, 2017

High Stakes for High Achievers / High Stakes for High Schoolers

Think Twice - Jan 26, 2017

Better Evidence, Better Choices, Better Schools: State Supports for Evidence-Based School Improvement

Think Twice - Jan 12, 2017

Segregation, Race, and Charter Schools: What Do We Know?

Think Twice - Dec 19, 2016

Squeezing the Public School Districts: The Fiscal Effects of Eliminating the Louisiana Scholarship Program / Two recent papers from the Department of Education Reform (DER) at the University of Arkansas predicted the budgetary consequences of ending the Louisiana Scholarship Program (LSP). The two closely allied papers concluded that terminating the LSP would not relieve pressure on public spending in Louisiana. The first paper uses an economic model to conclude that terminating the LSP would increase costs. While, the second paper confirms the findings from the first paper and advances that the findings would apply to almost all school districts in Louisiana.

Think Twice - Sep 29, 2016

Research-Based Options for Education Policymaking – Regulating Charter Schools

Policy Brief - Aug 23, 2016

Review of A 21st Century School System in the Mile-High City

Think Twice - Jul 26, 2016

Measuring School Turnaround Success

Think Twice - Jul 20, 2016

A Win-Win Solution: The Empirical Evidence on School Choice / The Participant Effects of Private School Vouchers across the Globe: A Meta-Analytic and Systematic Review

Think Twice - Jun 30, 2016

Research-Based Options for Education Policymaking – The Effectiveness of Class Size Reduction

Policy Brief - Jun 21, 2016

Research-Based Options for Education Policymaking – Does Money Matter?

Policy Brief - Jun 16, 2016

Research-Based Options for Education Policymaking – The Purpose of Education: Truing the Balance Wheel

Policy Brief - Jun 02, 2016

Research-Based Options for Education Policymaking – Housing Policy

Policy Brief - May 24, 2016

Research-Based Options for Education Policymaking - Reading Qualitative Educational Policy Research

Policy Brief - May 04, 2016

Research-Based Options for Education Policymaking – Five Simple Steps to Reading Policy Research

Policy Brief - Apr 28, 2016

2016 Brown Center Report on American Education — Part II: Tracking and Advanced Placement

Think Twice - Apr 26, 2016

Virtual Schools Report 2016: Directory and Performance Review

Policy Brief - Apr 20, 2016

Marshall Jean, University of Chicago

Think Twice - Apr 18, 2016

The School Choice Voucher: A “Get Out of Jail” Card?

Think Twice - Apr 06, 2016

Research-Based Options for Education Policymaking – Do Choice Policies Segregate Schools?

Policy Brief - Mar 31, 2016

Research-Based Options for Education Policymaking – The 'Portfolio' Approach to School District Governance

Policy Brief - Mar 29, 2016

Learning about Learning: What Every New Teacher Needs to Know

Think Twice - Mar 24, 2016

SchoolGrades.org

Think Twice - Mar 10, 2016

Smart, Skilled, and Striving: Transforming and Elevating the Teaching Profession

Think Twice - Jan 07, 2016

The Integration Anomaly: Comparing the Effects of K-12 Education Delivery Models on Segregation in Schools

Think Twice - Jan 05, 2016

Diverse Housing, Diverse Schooling: How Policy Can Stabilize Racial Demographic Change in Cities and Suburbs

Policy Brief - Dec 15, 2015

Research-Based Options for Education Policymaking – Reversing the Deprofessionalization of Teaching

Policy Brief - Dec 08, 2015

The Effects of Test-based Retention on Student Outcomes Over Time: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Florida

Think Twice - Dec 03, 2015

The Hidden Value of Curriculum Reform: Do States and Districts Receive the Most Bang for their Curriculum Buck?

Think Twice - Nov 19, 2015

Do We Already Have Universal Preschool?

Think Twice - Nov 12, 2015

Research-Based Options for Education Policymaking - School Accountability, Multiple Measures and Inspectorates in a Post-NCLB World

Policy Brief - Oct 25, 2015

Ten Years in New Orleans: Public School Resurgence and the Path Ahead

Think Twice - Oct 21, 2015

School Closures and Student Achievement: An Analysis of Ohio’s Urban District and Charter Schools

Think Twice - Jun 16, 2015

ESEA Reauthorization: How Can We Build upon No Child Left Behind’s Progress for Students with Disabilities in a Reauthorized ESEA

Think Twice - Jun 08, 2015

Student Mobility: Causes, Consequences, Solutions

Policy Brief - Jun 01, 2015

Increasing Education: What it Will and Will Not Do for Earnings and Earnings Inequality

Think Twice - May 18, 2015

Dramatic Action, Dramatic Improvement: the Research on School Turnaround

Think Twice - May 11, 2015

Urban Charter School Study

Think Twice - Apr 27, 2015

Measuring and Understanding Education Advocacy

Think Twice - Apr 16, 2015

Paying the Best Teachers More to Teach More Students

Think Twice - Apr 13, 2015

Separating Fact and Fiction: What You Need to Know about Charter Schools

Think Twice - Feb 23, 2015

Why School Report Cards Merit a Failing Grade

Policy Brief - Jan 26, 2015

No Excuses Charter Schools: A Meta-Analysis of the Experimental Evidence

Think Twice - Jan 20, 2015

Proposed 2015 Federal Teacher Preparation Regulations

Think Twice - Jan 12, 2015

Better Data, Better Decisions: Informing School Choosers to Improve Education Markets and A Crisis We Can Solve: Connecticut’s Failing Schools and Their Impact

Think Twice - Jan 05, 2015

The Economic Benefits of Closing Education Achievement Gaps

Think Twice - Dec 04, 2014

Federal School Finance Reform: Moving Toward Title I Funding Following the Child

Think Twice - Nov 06, 2014

Virtual Schooling and Student Learning: Evidence from the Florida Virtual School

Think Twice - Oct 28, 2014

A Meta-Analysis of the Literature on the Effect of Charter Schools on Student Achievement

Think Twice - Sep 30, 2014

The Efficiency Index

Think Twice - Sep 23, 2014

Seeds of Achievement: AppleTree’s Early Childhood D.C. Charter Schools

Think Twice - Sep 16, 2014

The Productivity of Public Charter Schools

Think Twice - Aug 19, 2014

The State Education Agency: At the Helm, Not the Oar

Think Twice - Jun 07, 2014

New York City's Children First: Lessons in School Reform

Think Twice - Jun 03, 2014

Fast Start: Training Better Teachers Faster, with Focus, Practice, and Feedback

Think Twice - May 29, 2014

Charter School Funding: Inequity Expands Department of Education Reform (DER) at the University of Arkansas

Think Twice - May 20, 2014

The Effect of Co-locations on Student Achievement in NYC Public Schools

Think Twice - Apr 15, 2014

Measuring the Impacts of Teachers I (NBER No. 19423) & II (NBER No. 19424)

Think Twice - Apr 10, 2014

Review of The Economic Benefits of New York City’s Public School Reforms, 2002-2013

Think Twice - Mar 31, 2014

Updating Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century

Think Twice - Mar 18, 2014

A New Frontier: Utilizing Charter Schooling to Strengthen Rural Education

Think Twice - Mar 13, 2014

Pluck & Tenacity: How Five Private Schools in Ohio Have Adapted to Vouchers

Think Twice - Mar 06, 2014

Virtual Schools in the U.S. 2014: Politics, Performance, Policy, and Research Evidence

Policy Brief - Mar 04, 2014

A Legal Lever for Enhancing Productivity

Think Twice - Feb 27, 2014

Should Charter Schools Pay Rent? Implications for Staffing and Growth

Think Twice - Feb 20, 2014

Does Class Size Matter?

Policy Brief - Feb 18, 2014

Transfer Incentives for High-Performing Teachers: Final Results from a Multisite Randomized Experiment

Think Twice - Jan 28, 2014

Fixing Classroom Observations: How Common Core Will Change the Way We Look at Teaching

Think Twice - Jan 21, 2014

Teach For America: A Return to the Evidence

Policy Brief - Jan 07, 2014

An Opportunity Culture for All : Making teaching a highly paid, high-impact profession

Think Twice - Dec 12, 2013

School Choice and School Performance in the New York City Public Schools: Will the Past be Prologue?

Think Twice - Nov 19, 2013

Data-driven Improvement and Accountability

Policy Brief - Oct 22, 2013

Model Legislative Language for Comprehensive Assessment and Accountability

Policy Brief - Oct 22, 2013

Determining Funding for Online Schools

Policy Brief - Oct 15, 2013

“Building the Possible: The Achievement School District’s Presentation in Milwaukee” & “The Recovery School District’s Presentation in Milwaukee”

Think Twice - Oct 08, 2013

Were all those standardized tests for nothing? The lessons of No Child Left Behind

Think Twice - Aug 27, 2013

National Charter School Study 2013

Think Twice - Jul 16, 2013

Weighted Student funding for California

Think Twice - Jun 18, 2013

Research-Based Options for Education Policymaking

Policy Brief - Jun 13, 2013

Middle Class or Middle of the Pack: What can we learn when benchmarking U.S. schools against the world’s best

Think Twice - Jun 04, 2013

Research-Based Options for Education Policymaking — Moving Beyond Tracking

Policy Brief - May 30, 2013

Research-Based Options for Education Policymaking - Addressing School Environment and Safety for LGBT Students

Policy Brief - May 23, 2013

Research-Based Options for Education Policymaking - Twenty-first-Century Skills and Implications for Education

Policy Brief - May 14, 2013

Report Card on American Education: Ranking State K-12 Performance, Progress, and Reform (18th edition)

Think Twice - May 09, 2013

Virtual Schools in the U.S. 2013: Politics, Performance, Policy, and Research Evidence

Policy Brief - May 02, 2013

KIPP Middle Schools: Impacts on Achievement and Other Outcomes

Think Twice - Apr 30, 2013

Mayoral Governance and Student Achievement: How Mayor-Led Districts are Improving School and Student Performance

Think Twice - Apr 23, 2013

Evaluation of Teach for America in Texas Schools

Think Twice - Apr 09, 2013

Does Sorting Students Improve Scores? An Analysis of Class Composition

Think Twice - Apr 02, 2013

The School Staffing Surge: Decades of Employment Growth in America’s Public Schools, Part II

Think Twice - Mar 26, 2013

English Language Learners and Parental Involvement

Policy Brief - Mar 19, 2013

What Does It Take to Scale Up Innovations? An Examination of Teach For America, Harlem Children’s Zone, and the Knowledge is Power Program

Policy Brief - Mar 14, 2013

Estimating the effect of leaders on public sector productivity: The case for school principals AND “School Leaders Matter”

Think Twice - Mar 05, 2013

State Policy Report Card

Think Twice - Feb 20, 2013

Charter School Performance in Michigan

Think Twice - Feb 12, 2013

Research-Based Options for Education Policymaking – Effective School Expenditures

Policy Brief - Feb 07, 2013

Two Culminating Reports From The MET Project

Think Twice - Jan 31, 2013

The Education Choice and Competition Index: Background and Results 2012

Think Twice - Jan 29, 2013

Failure is Not an Option: How Principals, Teachers, Students, and Parents from Ohio’s High-Achieving, High Poverty Schools Explain Their Success

Think Twice - Jan 15, 2013

Research-Based Options for Education Policymaking—Public Funding of School Choice

Policy Brief - Dec 13, 2012

New York State Special Education Enrollment Analysis Center on Reinventing Public Education

Think Twice - Dec 06, 2012

The School Staffing Surge: Decades of Employment Growth in America's Public Schools

Think Twice - Dec 04, 2012

Measures of Effective Teaching—Asking Students About Teaching

Think Twice - Nov 15, 2012

Research-Based Options for Education Policymaking—Preschool Education

Policy Brief - Nov 13, 2012

Democracy Left Behind: How Recent Education Reforms Undermine Local School Governance and Democratic Education

Policy Brief - Oct 16, 2012

Research-Based Options for Education Policymaking— Common Core State Standards

Policy Brief - Oct 11, 2012

Democratic School Turnarounds: Pursuing Equity and Learning from Evidence

Policy Brief - Oct 01, 2012

Research-Based Options for Education Policymaking—Teacher Evaluation

Policy Brief - Sep 20, 2012

The Effects of School Vouchers on College Enrollment: Experimental Evidence from New York City

Think Twice - Sep 13, 2012

Parent Power: Grass-Roots Activism and K-12 Education Reform

Think Twice - Sep 06, 2012

An Analysis of the Use and Validity of Test-Based Teacher Evaluations Reported by the Los Angeles Times: 2011

Policy Brief - Jun 20, 2012

Spending by the Major Charter Management Organizations: Comparing Charter School and Local Public District Financial Resources in New York, Ohio, and Texas.

Policy Brief - May 03, 2012

Milwaukee Parental Choice Program, Final Reports No. 29, 30 & 32

Think Twice - Apr 19, 2012

Teachers in the Digital Age of Digital Instruction: Creating sound policy for digital learning

Think Twice - Apr 03, 2012

Our Immense Achievement Gap: Embracing Proven Remedies While Avoiding a Race-Based Recipe for Disaster

Think Twice - Mar 29, 2012

Overcoming the Governance Challenge in K-12 Online Learning

Think Twice - Mar 22, 2012

The Louisiana Recovery School District: Lessons for the Buckeye State

Think Twice - Mar 20, 2012

Gathering Feedback for Teaching: Combining High Quality Observation with Student Surveys and Achievement Gains

Think Twice - Mar 13, 2012

The Costs of Online Learning

Think Twice - Mar 06, 2012

On Her Majesty's School Inspection Service

Think Twice - Feb 28, 2012

Charting Equality: Using Charter School Legislation and Policy to Advance Equal Educational Opportunity

Policy Brief - Feb 21, 2012

Charting Equality: Using Charter School Legislation and Policy to Advance Equal Educational Opportunity

Policy Brief - Feb 21, 2012

Review of The Long-Term Impact of Teachers: Teacher Value-Added and Student Outcomes in Adulthood

Think Twice - Feb 16, 2012

What's Trust Got to Do With It? A Communications and Engagement Guide for School Leaders Tackling the Problem of Persistently Failing Schools

Think Twice - Feb 07, 2012

Assessing the Compensation of Public School Teachers

Think Twice - Jan 31, 2012

Charter-School Management Organizations: Diverse Strategies and Diverse Student Impacts

Think Twice - Jan 19, 2012

Creating Teacher Incentives for School Excellence and Equity

Policy Brief - Jan 12, 2012

Gateways to the Principalship: State Power to Improve the Quality of School Leaders

Think Twice - Jan 10, 2012

Organizing Schools to Improve Student Achievement: Start Times, Grade Configurations, and Teacher Assignments

Think Twice - Nov 29, 2011

Redefining Teacher Pensions. Strategically Defined Benefits for New Teachers and Fiscal Sustainability for All Teacher Effectiveness from Changing Retirement Benefits Buyer Beware: The Risks to Teacher Effectiveness from Changing Retirement Benefits

Think Twice - Nov 22, 2011

Chartering and Choice as an Achievement Gap-Closing Reform: The success of California charter schools in promoting African American Achievement

Think Twice - Nov 10, 2011

Online K-12 Schooling in the U.S.: Uncertain Private Ventures in Need of Public Regulation

Policy Brief - Oct 25, 2011

Charting New Territory: Tapping Charter Schools to Turn Around the Nation’s Dropout Factories

Think Twice - Sep 13, 2011

Florida Formula for Student Achievement: Lessons for the Nation

Think Twice - Jun 30, 2011

Class Size: What Research Says and What It Means for State Policy

Think Twice - Jun 16, 2011

The Comprehensive Longitudinal Evaluation of the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program: Summary of Fourth Year Reports

Think Twice - Jun 02, 2011

Cross-Country Evidence on Teacher Pay for Performance

Think Twice - May 31, 2011

Yearning to Break Free: Ohio Superintendents Speak Out

Think Twice - May 03, 2011

Going Exponential: Growing the Charter School Sector's Best

Think Twice - Apr 21, 2011

Spend Smart: Fix Our Broken School Funding System

Think Twice - Apr 14, 2011

Linking Learning to the 21st Century: Preparing All Students for College, Career, and Civic Participation

Policy Brief - Apr 07, 2011

District Awards for Teacher Excellence: Final Report

Think Twice - Mar 03, 2011

Reform With Results for New Jersey Schools

Think Twice - Feb 10, 2011

Due Diligence and the Evaluation of Teachers: A Review of the Value-Added Analysis Underlying the Effectiveness Rankings of Los Angeles Unified School District Teachers by The Los Angeles Times

Policy Brief - Feb 08, 2011

Consolidation of Schools and Districts What the Research Says and What It Means

Policy Brief - Feb 01, 2011

Adding Up the Spending: Fiscal Disparities and Philanthropy among New York City Charter Schools

Policy Brief - Jan 27, 2011

Charter Schools: A Report on Rethinking the Federal Role in Education

Think Twice - Jan 20, 2011

Measures of Effective Teaching - Learning about Teaching: Initial Findings

Think Twice - Jan 13, 2011

U.S. Math Performance in Global Perspective: How Well Does Each State Do at Producing High-Achieving Students

Think Twice - Jan 11, 2011

The 2010 State School Report Card: A state-by-state analysis of learning, efficiency, and standards

Think Twice - Dec 14, 2010

Getting Teacher Assessment Right: What Policymakers Can Learn from Research

Policy Brief - Dec 07, 2010

Closing the Racial Achievement Gap: Learning from Florida's Reforms

Think Twice - Nov 30, 2010

An Analysis of Arizona Individual Income Tax-credit Scholarship Recipient's Family Income, 2009-10

Think Twice - Nov 18, 2010

Teacher Evaluation 2.0

Think Twice - Nov 16, 2010

The six research summaries supporting the "Blueprint for Reform"

Think Twice - Oct 05, 2010

Safe at School: Addressing the School Environment and LGBT Safety through Policy and Legislation

Policy Brief - Sep 30, 2010

The

Policy Brief - Jul 21, 2010

The Impact of a Universal Class-Size Reduction Policy: Evidence from Florida's Statewide Mandate

Think Twice - Jul 14, 2010

Equal or Fair? A Study of Revenues and Expenditures in American Charter Schools

Policy Brief - Jun 29, 2010

Teach for America: A Review of the Evidence

Policy Brief - Jun 09, 2010

Urban School Decentralization and the Growth of

Policy Brief - Jun 02, 2010

Charter School Autonomy: A Half-Broken Promise

Think Twice - May 26, 2010

Has Progress Been made in Raising Achievement for English language Learners

Think Twice - May 19, 2010

Teacher Layoffs: Rethinking "Last-Hired, First-Fired" Policies

Think Twice - May 12, 2010

They Spend WHAT? The Real Cost of Public Schools

Think Twice - May 05, 2010

Behind the Curtain: Assessing the Case for National Standards

Think Twice - Apr 21, 2010

Fix the City Schools: Moving All Schools to Charter-Like Autonomy

Think Twice - Apr 15, 2010

Stuck Schools

Think Twice - Apr 07, 2010

Graduation Rates for Choice and Public School Students in Milwaukee, 2003-2008

Think Twice - Mar 31, 2010

Graduation Rates for Choice and Public School Students in Milwaukee, 2003-2008

Think Twice - Mar 31, 2010

America's Private Public Schools

Think Twice - Mar 24, 2010

The Shaping of the American Mind: The Diverging Influences of the College Degree and Civic Learning on American Beliefs

Think Twice - Mar 17, 2010

Connecticut's Charter School Law and Race to the Top

Think Twice - Mar 10, 2010

Expanding Choice in Elementary and Secondary Education: A Report on Rethinking the Federal Role in Education

Think Twice - Mar 03, 2010

Schools without Diversity: Education Management Organizations, Charter Schools, and the Demographic Stratification of the American School System

Policy Brief - Feb 09, 2010

How School Choice Can Create Jobs for South Carolina

Think Twice - Jan 14, 2010

Everyone Wins: How Charter Schools Benefit All New York City Public School Students

Think Twice - Nov 17, 2009

How New York City's Charter Schools Affect Achievement

Think Twice - Nov 12, 2009

Private Schooling in the U.S.: Expenditures, Supply, and Policy Implications

Policy Brief - Aug 18, 2009

Private Schooling in the U.S.: Expenditures, Supply, and Policy Implications

Policy Brief - Aug 18, 2009

NCLB's Ultimate Restructuring Alternatives: Do they Improve the Quality of Education?

Policy Brief - Aug 08, 2009

The Widget Effect: Our National Failure to Acknowledge and Act on Teacher Differences

Think Twice - Aug 05, 2009

Multiple Choice: Charter School Performance in 16 States

Think Twice - Jun 24, 2009

The Fiscal Impact of Tax-Credit Scholarships in Montana The Fiscal Impact of Tax-Credit Scholarships in Georgia The Fiscal Impact of a Corporate & Individual Tax-Credit Scholarship Program on the State of Indiana

Think Twice - Jun 22, 2009

The MPCP Longitudinal Educational Growth Study Second Year Report

Think Twice - May 28, 2009

Charter Schools in Eight States: Effects on Achievement, Attainment, Integration and Competition

Think Twice - May 27, 2009

Evaluation of the DC Opportunity Scholarship Program: Impacts After Three Years

Think Twice - May 21, 2009

Weighted Student Formula Yearbook 2009

Think Twice - May 13, 2009

The Impact of Milwaukee Charter Schools on Student Achievement

Think Twice - May 05, 2009

A Win-Win Solution: The Empirical Evidence on How Vouchers Affect Public Schools

Think Twice - Apr 27, 2009

The Fiscal Impact of the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program: 2009 Update

Think Twice - Apr 27, 2009

The Realities of K-12 Virtual Education

Policy Brief - Apr 20, 2009

When Private Schools Take Public Dollars: What’s the Place of Accountability in School Voucher Programs?

Think Twice - Apr 15, 2009

An Evaluation of Teachers Trained Through Different Routes to Certification

Think Twice - Mar 10, 2009

Poverty and Potential: Out-of-School Factors and School Success

Policy Brief - Mar 09, 2009

The High Cost of High School Dropouts in Ohio

Think Twice - Mar 04, 2009

Public Charter Schools: A Great Value for Ohio’s Public Education System

Think Twice - Dec 10, 2008

Reports on 10 state public opinion surveys on K-12 school choice

Think Twice - Dec 02, 2008

What Do We Know About the Outcomes of KIPP Schools?

Policy Brief - Nov 10, 2008

Education Olympics 2008: The Games in Review

Think Twice - Oct 15, 2008

The Misplaced Math Student: Lost in Eighth-Grade Algebra

Think Twice - Oct 14, 2008

Markets vs. Monopolies in Education: A Global Review of the Evidence

Think Twice - Sep 30, 2008

Preschool Education and Its Lasting Effects: Research and Policy Implications

Policy Brief - Sep 10, 2008

Promising Start: An Empirical Analysis of How EdChoice Vouchers Affect Ohio Public Schools

Think Twice - Sep 08, 2008

High Achieving Students in the Era of NCLB

Think Twice - Jul 29, 2008

Strengthening the Link between Effective School Expenditures and State Funding Mechanisms

Policy Brief - Jul 14, 2008

The Effect of Special Education Vouchers on Public School Achievement: Evidence from Florida’s McKay Scholarship Program

Think Twice - May 22, 2008

Alternative Certification of Teachers

Policy Brief - May 12, 2008

Choice and Education across the States

Think Twice - Apr 29, 2008

The Turnaround Challenge: Why America’s Best Opportunity to Dramatically Improve Students Achievement Lies in Our Worst-Performing Schools

Think Twice - Apr 24, 2008

Fund the Child: Bringing Equity, Autonomy and Portability to Ohio School Finance

Think Twice - Apr 07, 2008

A Guide to Contracting Out School Support Services: Good for the School? Good for the Community?

Policy Brief - Mar 31, 2008

How Sound an Investment? Analysis of Federal Prekindergarten Proposals

Think Twice - Mar 24, 2008

School Choice: Evidence and Recommendations (Introduction)

Policy Brief - Mar 20, 2008

A School Privatization Primer for Michigan School Officials, Media and Residents

Think Twice - Feb 19, 2008

Promoting ELL Parental Involvement: Challenges in Contested Times

Policy Brief - Jan 28, 2008

Feeling the Florida Heat? How Low-Performing Schools Respond to Voucher and Accountability Pressure

Think Twice - Jan 15, 2008

The High Cost of Failing to Reform Public Education in Missouri The High Cost of Failing to Reform Public Education in Indiana The High Cost of Failing to Reform Public Education in Texas The High Cost of South Carolina’s Low Graduation Rates The High Cost of Low Graduation Rates in North Carolina

Think Twice - Jan 09, 2008

Who Chooses Schools and Why? The Characteristics and Motivations of Families who Actively Choose Schools

Policy Brief - Jan 07, 2008

1) Are Private High Schools Better Academically than Public High Schools? 2) Monopoly Versus Markets: The Empirical Evidence on Private Schools and School Choice

Think Twice - Dec 12, 2007

Shortchanging Disadvantaged Students: An analysis of intra-district spending patterns in Ohio

Think Twice - Oct 17, 2007

End It, Don’t Mend It: What to Do with No Child Left Behind

Think Twice - Oct 08, 2007

Restoring Value To the High School Diploma: The Rhetoric and Practice Of Higher Standards

Policy Brief - Oct 01, 2007

The ABC’s of School Choice

Think Twice - Sep 24, 2007

Portfolios – A Backward Step in School Accountability

Think Twice - Sep 19, 2007

Michigan Higher Education: Facts and Fiction

Think Twice - Jul 18, 2007

Answering the Question That Matters Most: Has Student Achievement Increased Since No Child Left Behind?

Think Twice - Jul 02, 2007

School Choice by the Numbers: The Fiscal Effect of School Choice Programs

Think Twice - May 24, 2007

State Takeover, School Restructuring, Private Management, and Students Achievement in Philadelphia

Think Twice - May 07, 2007

The Promises and Pitfalls of Alternative Teacher Compensation Approaches

Policy Brief - Apr 23, 2007

How Much Are Teachers Paid?

Think Twice - Feb 19, 2007

Whole Language High Jinks: How to tell when ‘scientifically-based reading Instruction’ isn’t

Think Twice - Feb 14, 2007

Report Card on Education, 1983-84 to 2004-05

Think Twice - Jan 08, 2007

Immersion Not Submersion: Can a New Strategy for Teaching English Outperform Old Excuses?

Think Twice - Dec 14, 2006

Giving Students the Chaff: How to Find and Keep the Teachers We Need

Think Twice - Oct 25, 2006

Getting Farther Ahead by Staying Behind: A Second-Year Evaluation of Florida's Policy to End Social Promotion (2006)

Think Twice - Oct 10, 2006

Segregation Levels in Cleveland Public Schools and the Cleveland Voucher Program

Think Twice - Oct 05, 2006

The State of State Standards 2006

Think Twice - Sep 11, 2006

On the Public-Private School Achievement Debate

Think Twice - Aug 30, 2006

The Financial Impact of Ohio’s Charter Schools

Think Twice - Aug 01, 2006

Assessing Proposals for Preschool and Kindergarten: Essential Information for Parents, Taxpayers and Policymakers

Think Twice - May 31, 2006

Playing to Type? Mapping the Charter School Landscape

Think Twice - May 11, 2006

Trends in Charter School Authorizing

Think Twice - May 11, 2006

Getting Ahead by Staying Behind: An Evaluation of Florida’s Program to End Social Promotion

Think Twice - Feb 23, 2006

Spreading Freedom and Saving Money: The Fiscal Impact of the D.C. Voucher Program

Think Twice - Feb 20, 2006

The State of High School Education in Wisconsin: A Tale of Two Wisconsins

Think Twice - Feb 17, 2006

Assessment High Stakes and Alternative Visions: Appropriate Use of the Right Tools to Leverage Improvement

Policy Brief - Jan 01, 1970

Separate But Superior? A Review Of Issues And Data Bearing On Single-Sex Education

Policy Brief - Jan 01, 1970

The Accuracy and Effectiveness of Adequate Yearly Progress NCLBs School Evaluation System

Policy Brief - Jan 01, 1970

A Policy Makers Guide to The 65% Solution Proposals

Policy Brief - Jan 01, 1970

Ending the Blame Game on Educational Inequity: A Study of High Flying Schools and NCLB

Policy Brief - Jan 01, 1970

School Choice: Evidence and Recommendations (Introduction)

Policy Brief - Jan 01, 1970

Negotiating Public and Private: Philosophical Frameworks for School Choice

Policy Brief - Jan 01, 1970

The Impact of Advocacy Funding on the School Choice Debate

Policy Brief - Jan 01, 1970

How Legislation and Litigation Shape School Choice

Policy Brief - Jan 01, 1970

The Impact of Advocacy Funding on the School Choice Debate

Policy Brief - Jan 01, 1970

School Choice and Accountability

Policy Brief - Jan 01, 1970

Funding Formulas School Choice and Inherent Incentives

Policy Brief - Jan 01, 1970

Teacher Qualifications and Work Environments Across School Types

Policy Brief - Jan 01, 1970

Educational Innovation and Diversification in School Choice Plans

Policy Brief - Jan 01, 1970

School Choice and Segregation by Race Class and Achievement

Policy Brief - Jan 01, 1970

The Competitive Effect of School Choice Policies on Performance in Traditional Public Schools

Policy Brief - Jan 01, 1970

The Impact of School Choice Reforms on Student Achievement

Policy Brief - Jan 01, 1970

How Legislation and Litigation Shape School Choice

Policy Brief - Jan 01, 1970

Review of The Fiscal Impact of the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program: 2009 Update

Think Twice - Jan 01, 1970

Review of The Effect of Milwaukee's Parental Choice Program on Student Achievement in Milwaukee Public Schools

Think Twice - Jan 01, 1970

Two New Think Tank Reviews Published ... Elsewhere

Think Twice - Jan 01, 1970

The Effect of Milwaukee's Parental Choice Program on Student Achievement in Milwaukee Public Schools

Think Twice - Jan 01, 1970

Review of Milwaukee Parental Choice Program, Milwaukee Evaluation: Final Reports No. 29

Think Twice - Jan 01, 1970

Review of Milwaukee Parental Choice Program, Milwaukee Evaluation: Final Reports No. 30

Think Twice - Jan 01, 1970

Review of The Effects of School Vouchers on College Enrollment: Experimental Evidence from New York City

Think Twice - Jan 01, 1970

Review of The Way of the Future: Education Savings Accounts for Every American Family

Think Twice - Jan 01, 1970

Review of For Good Measure? Teacher Evaluation Policy in the ESSA Era

Think Twice - Jan 01, 1970

Review of Youth Engagement in Collective Impact Initiatives: Lessons from Promise Neighborhoods

Think Twice - Jan 01, 1970