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The Mounting Trouble with Education Savings Accounts

Apr 17, 2025

Let's Stop Asking Whether Teachers Are Professionals. Let's Ask What Kinds of Professionals We Want Teachers to Be

Mar 11, 2025

The Fiscal Impacts of Expanded Voucher Programs and Charter-School Growth on Public Schools: Recommendations for Sustaining Adequate and Equitable School Finance Systems

Nov 21, 2024

How Can States Make School Voucher Systems More Accountable, Accessible, and Transparent?

Oct 03, 2024

Strengthening Oversight of Education Savings Account (ESA) Funding for Private and At-Home Schooling

Sep 05, 2024

Time for a Pause: Without Effective Public Oversight, AI in Schools Will Do More Harm Than Good

Mar 05, 2024

The Potential for Land Use and Housing Reform to Address School Segregation and Educational Opportunity

Feb 13, 2024

The Conflict Over Parents' Rights

Jan 16, 2024

How Discriminatory Censorship Laws Imperil Public Education

Nov 30, 2023

Evaluating Research That Alleges Funding Disparities Between Charter and District Schools

Sep 12, 2023

Section 504 Plans: Examining Inequitable Access and Misuse

Jun 08, 2023

Virtual Schools in the U.S. 2023

May 11, 2023

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

Apr 13, 2023

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

Nov 15, 2022

A Civil Rights Framework for the Reauthorization of ESEA

Oct 11, 2022

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

Sep 13, 2022

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

Jun 22, 2022

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

May 19, 2022

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

Mar 23, 2022

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

Jun 10, 2021

Estimating a Price Tag for School Vouchers

May 24, 2021

Virtual Schools in the U.S. 2021

May 06, 2021

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

Mar 08, 2021

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

Oct 27, 2020

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

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

Jun 25, 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

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

Feb 04, 2020

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

Jan 14, 2020

Fixing the Morass of Special Education Funding

Jun 25, 2019

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

May 29, 2019

Multiple Shortcomings Mar Report Ranking Michigan High Schools

Apr 30, 2019

How School Privatization Opens the Door for Discrimination

Dec 06, 2018

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

May 01, 2018

The State of Education Savings Account Programs in the United States

Jan 23, 2018

Assessing the Fiscal Impact of Wisconsin’s Statewide Voucher Program

Oct 05, 2017

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

Jun 05, 2017

School Closure as a Strategy to Remedy Low Performance

May 18, 2017

Supplemental Education Services under NCLB: Emerging Evidence and Policy Issues

May 01, 2017

Research-Based Options for Education Policymaking – Regulating Charter Schools

Aug 23, 2016

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

Jun 21, 2016

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

Jun 16, 2016

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

Jun 02, 2016

Research-Based Options for Education Policymaking – Housing Policy

May 24, 2016

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

May 04, 2016

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

Apr 28, 2016

Virtual Schools Report 2016: Directory and Performance Review

Apr 20, 2016

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

Mar 31, 2016

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

Mar 29, 2016

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

Dec 15, 2015

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

Dec 08, 2015

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

Oct 25, 2015

Student Mobility: Causes, Consequences, Solutions

Jun 01, 2015

Why School Report Cards Merit a Failing Grade

Jan 26, 2015

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

Mar 04, 2014

Does Class Size Matter?

Feb 18, 2014

Teach For America: A Return to the Evidence

Jan 07, 2014

Data-driven Improvement and Accountability

Oct 22, 2013

Model Legislative Language for Comprehensive Assessment and Accountability

Oct 22, 2013

Determining Funding for Online Schools

Oct 15, 2013

Research-Based Options for Education Policymaking

Jun 13, 2013

Research-Based Options for Education Policymaking — Moving Beyond Tracking

May 30, 2013

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

May 23, 2013

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

May 14, 2013

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

May 02, 2013

English Language Learners and Parental Involvement

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

Mar 14, 2013

Research-Based Options for Education Policymaking – Effective School Expenditures

Feb 07, 2013

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

Dec 13, 2012

Research-Based Options for Education Policymaking—Preschool Education

Nov 13, 2012

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

Oct 16, 2012

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

Oct 11, 2012

Democratic School Turnarounds: Pursuing Equity and Learning from Evidence

Oct 01, 2012

Research-Based Options for Education Policymaking—Teacher Evaluation

Sep 20, 2012

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

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.

May 03, 2012

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

Feb 21, 2012

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

Feb 21, 2012

Creating Teacher Incentives for School Excellence and Equity

Jan 12, 2012

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

Oct 25, 2011

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

Apr 07, 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

Feb 08, 2011

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

Feb 01, 2011

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

Jan 27, 2011

Getting Teacher Assessment Right: What Policymakers Can Learn from Research

Dec 07, 2010

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

Sep 30, 2010

The "Common Core" Standards Initiative: An Effective Reform Tool?

Jul 21, 2010

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

Jun 29, 2010

Teach for America: A Review of the Evidence

Jun 09, 2010

Urban School Decentralization and the Growth of "Portfolio Districts:"

Jun 02, 2010

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

Feb 09, 2010

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

Aug 18, 2009

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

Aug 18, 2009

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

Aug 08, 2009

The Realities of K-12 Virtual Education

Apr 20, 2009

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

Mar 09, 2009

What Do We Know About the Outcomes of KIPP Schools?

Nov 10, 2008

Preschool Education and Its Lasting Effects: Research and Policy Implications

Sep 10, 2008

Strengthening the Link between Effective School Expenditures and State Funding Mechanisms

Jul 14, 2008

Alternative Certification of Teachers

May 12, 2008

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

Mar 31, 2008

School Choice: Evidence and Recommendations (Introduction)

Mar 20, 2008

Promoting ELL Parental Involvement: Challenges in Contested Times

Jan 28, 2008

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

Jan 07, 2008

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

Oct 01, 2007

The Promises and Pitfalls of Alternative Teacher Compensation Approaches

Apr 23, 2007

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

Jan 01, 1970

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

Jan 01, 1970

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

Jan 01, 1970

A Policy Makers Guide to The 65% Solution Proposals

Jan 01, 1970

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

Jan 01, 1970

School Choice: Evidence and Recommendations (Introduction)

Jan 01, 1970

Negotiating Public and Private: Philosophical Frameworks for School Choice

Jan 01, 1970

The Impact of Advocacy Funding on the School Choice Debate

Jan 01, 1970

The Impact of Advocacy Funding on the School Choice Debate

Jan 01, 1970

How Legislation and Litigation Shape School Choice

Jan 01, 1970

School Choice and Accountability

Jan 01, 1970

Funding Formulas School Choice and Inherent Incentives

Jan 01, 1970

Teacher Qualifications and Work Environments Across School Types

Jan 01, 1970

Educational Innovation and Diversification in School Choice Plans

Jan 01, 1970

School Choice and Segregation by Race Class and Achievement

Jan 01, 1970

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

Jan 01, 1970

The Impact of School Choice Reforms on Student Achievement

Jan 01, 1970

How Legislation and Litigation Shape School Choice

Jan 01, 1970