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Review of Testing Theories of Why: Four Keys to Interpreting US Student Achievement Trends

Apr 24, 2025

Review of Thousands Served: Students with Disabilities in Wisconsin’s Parental Choice Programs

Apr 08, 2025

Review of Making the Grade: Accounting for Course Selection in High School Transcripts with Item Response Theory

Mar 25, 2025

Review of Fiscal Effects of School Choice: The Costs and Savings of Private School Choice Programs in America Through FY 2022

Feb 10, 2025

Review of Think Again: Are Education Programs for High Achievers Inherently Inequitable?

Feb 04, 2025

Review of Underachieving and Underenrolled: Chronically Low-Performing Schools in the Post-Pandemic Era

Jan 28, 2025

Review of Resource Realities: A Comparative Analysis of Charter and District School Funding in Washington, D.C.

Jan 21, 2025

Review of School Segregation on School Report Cards: Who Are We Grading Anyway?

Dec 10, 2024

Review of Searching for the Tipping Point: Scaling up Public School Choice Spurs Citywide Gains

Dec 03, 2024

Review of Learning Systems: Shaping the Role of Artificial Intelligence in Education

Nov 26, 2024

Review of Reassessing ESSA Implementation: An Equity Analysis of School Accountability Systems

Nov 20, 2024

Review of Pennsylvania's Education Tax Credit Scholarships: How EITC Serves Children and Families in the Commonwealth

Nov 12, 2024

Review of Systemwide and Intervention-Specific Effects of Denver Public Schools' Portfolio District Strategy on Individual Student Achievement

Nov 07, 2024

Review of Ohio Charter Schools After the Pandemic: Are Their Students Still Learning More Than They Would in District Schools?

Sep 24, 2024

Review of Helping Families Navigate the Changing Education Landscape

Sep 10, 2024

Review of The Broken Pipeline: Advanced Education Policies at the Local Level

Jul 18, 2024

Review of 'So Hard, but So Rewarding:' How School System Leaders are Scaling up Strategic School Staffing Models

Jul 11, 2024

Review of Did the Emergence of Ohio Charter Schools Help or Harm Students Who Remained in District Schools?

Jun 20, 2024

Review of Spark & Sustain: How All the World's School Systems Can Improve Learning at Scale

Jun 13, 2024

Review of The Reality of Switchers

May 02, 2024

Review of Public Education at a Crossroads: A Comprehensive Look at K-12 Resources and Outcomes

Apr 09, 2024

Review of K-12 School Choice Calculator

Mar 19, 2024

Review of Still a Good Investment: Charter School Productivity in Nine Cities

Jan 23, 2024

Review of The Cost-Effectiveness of Wisconsin's Private School Choice Programs

Dec 12, 2023

Review of From Surviving to Thriving: K-12 Choice and Opportunity for Rural Texas Students and Teachers

Dec 07, 2023

Review of Small Class Sizes for Improving Student Achievement in Primary and Secondary Schools: A Systematic Review

Nov 21, 2023

Review of Integrating Housing and Education Solutions to Reduce Segregation and Drive School Equity and When Good Parents Go to Jail: The Criminalization of Address Sharing in Public Education

Nov 14, 2023

Review of The 123s of School Choice: What the Research Says About Private School Choice Programs in America, 2023 Edition

Oct 12, 2023

Review of Qualified Education Expense Tax Credit: Economic Analysis

Sep 26, 2023

Review of Teacher Prep Review: Strengthening Elementary Reading Instruction

Sep 19, 2023

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

Sep 07, 2023

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

Sep 05, 2023

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

May 18, 2023

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

May 02, 2023

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

Apr 20, 2023

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

Apr 06, 2023

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

Mar 14, 2023

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

Mar 07, 2023

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

Mar 02, 2023

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

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

Feb 14, 2023

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

Feb 07, 2023

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

Jan 31, 2023

Review of Empowering Parents with School Choice Reduces Wokeism in Education

Jan 24, 2023

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

Jan 17, 2023

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

Dec 01, 2022

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

Nov 22, 2022

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

Nov 08, 2022

Pandemic Educational Models Remain Unproven

Oct 18, 2022

Review of Michigan Student Opportunity Scholarships: Overview and Fiscal Analysis

Jul 14, 2022

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

May 24, 2022

Summit Charter Organization Continues to Make Unjustified Claims

May 10, 2022

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

May 03, 2022

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

Mar 29, 2022

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

Mar 15, 2022

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

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

Feb 21, 2022

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

Feb 15, 2022

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

Feb 08, 2022

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

Jan 25, 2022

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

Jan 18, 2022

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

Dec 14, 2021

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

Dec 07, 2021

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

Dec 02, 2021

Review of Accountability and Private-School Choice

Nov 15, 2021

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

Nov 09, 2021

Review of Charter School Funding: Support for Students with Disabilities

Sep 02, 2021

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

Jul 15, 2021

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

Jun 22, 2021

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

Jun 15, 2021

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

Apr 20, 2021

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

Apr 08, 2021

Youth Engagement in Collective Impact Initiatives: Lessons from Promise Neighborhoods

Mar 30, 2021

Review of Capitalism in the 1619 Project

Mar 23, 2021

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

Mar 16, 2021

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

Mar 02, 2021

Review of Remote Learning Is Here to Stay

Feb 16, 2021

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

Feb 09, 2021

Review of Toward Equitable School Choice

Feb 04, 2021

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

Jan 26, 2021

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

Jan 21, 2021

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

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

Dec 03, 2020

Review of Student Assessment During COVID-19

Oct 29, 2020

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

Oct 22, 2020

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

Oct 15, 2020

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

Sep 17, 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

Jun 09, 2020

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

May 26, 2020

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

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

Apr 14, 2020

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

Apr 07, 2020

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

Mar 31, 2020

Report Provides Weak Justification for Expansion of Newark Charters

Mar 17, 2020

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

Mar 10, 2020

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

Mar 03, 2020

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

Jan 21, 2020

Report on Academic Progress Is a Worthwhile Conversation Starter

Nov 26, 2019

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

Nov 19, 2019

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

Nov 14, 2019

Report about Homeschooling Overreaches on Claims

Nov 07, 2019

Report Advocates Privatizing Schools Overseas, but Without Convincing Evidence

Oct 31, 2019

Manhattan Institute Report Fails to Muster Solid Evidence to Support Vouchers

Oct 22, 2019

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

Oct 16, 2019

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

Jun 18, 2019

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

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

May 30, 2019

The Michigan Context and Performance Report Card: High Schools 2018

Apr 18, 2019

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

Apr 02, 2019

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

Mar 28, 2019

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

Mar 12, 2019

12 Myths and Realities about Private Educational Choice Programs

Mar 07, 2019

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

Jan 24, 2019

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

Jan 15, 2019

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

Dec 04, 2018

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

Nov 27, 2018

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

Oct 11, 2018

Fiscal and Education Spillovers from Charter School Expansion

Oct 04, 2018

Systems for Success: Thinking Beyond Access to AP

Sep 25, 2018

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

Sep 11, 2018

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

Jun 14, 2018

2018 Teacher Prep Review, National Council on Teacher Quality

Jun 12, 2018

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

May 08, 2018

Do Impacts on Test Scores Even Matter?

May 03, 2018

Charter Schools and the Achievement Gap

Apr 10, 2018

Unlocking Potential: How Political Skill Can Maximize Superintendent Effectiveness

Mar 06, 2018

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

Feb 27, 2018

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

Feb 15, 2018

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

Jan 18, 2018

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

Jan 09, 2018

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

Nov 21, 2017

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

Oct 24, 2017

Charter School Funding: Inequity in New York City

Oct 11, 2017

Charter Management Organizations 2017

Sep 07, 2017

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

Aug 24, 2017

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

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

Jun 20, 2017

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

Jun 15, 2017

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

Jun 01, 2017

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

May 09, 2017

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

Apr 13, 2017

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

Mar 28, 2017

Within Our Grasp: Achieving Higher Admission Standards in Teacher Prep

Mar 23, 2017

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

Mar 07, 2017

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

Feb 14, 2017

High Stakes for High Achievers / High Stakes for High Schoolers

Jan 26, 2017

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

Jan 12, 2017

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

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.

Sep 29, 2016

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

Jul 26, 2016

Measuring School Turnaround Success

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

Jun 30, 2016

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

Apr 26, 2016

Marshall Jean, University of Chicago

Apr 18, 2016

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

Apr 06, 2016

Learning about Learning: What Every New Teacher Needs to Know

Mar 24, 2016

SchoolGrades.org

Mar 10, 2016

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

Jan 07, 2016

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

Jan 05, 2016

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

Dec 03, 2015

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

Nov 19, 2015

Do We Already Have Universal Preschool?

Nov 12, 2015

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

Oct 21, 2015

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

Jun 16, 2015

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

Jun 08, 2015

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

May 18, 2015

Dramatic Action, Dramatic Improvement: the Research on School Turnaround

May 11, 2015

Urban Charter School Study

Apr 27, 2015

Measuring and Understanding Education Advocacy

Apr 16, 2015

Paying the Best Teachers More to Teach More Students

Apr 13, 2015

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

Feb 23, 2015

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

Jan 20, 2015

Proposed 2015 Federal Teacher Preparation Regulations

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

Jan 05, 2015

The Economic Benefits of Closing Education Achievement Gaps

Dec 04, 2014

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

Nov 06, 2014

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

Oct 28, 2014

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

Sep 30, 2014

The Efficiency Index

Sep 23, 2014

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

Sep 16, 2014

The Productivity of Public Charter Schools

Aug 19, 2014

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

Jun 07, 2014

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

Jun 03, 2014

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

May 29, 2014

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

May 20, 2014

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

Apr 15, 2014

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

Apr 10, 2014

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

Mar 31, 2014

Updating Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century

Mar 18, 2014

A New Frontier: Utilizing Charter Schooling to Strengthen Rural Education

Mar 13, 2014

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

Mar 06, 2014

A Legal Lever for Enhancing Productivity

Feb 27, 2014

Should Charter Schools Pay Rent? Implications for Staffing and Growth

Feb 20, 2014

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

Jan 28, 2014

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

Jan 21, 2014

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

Dec 12, 2013

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

Nov 19, 2013

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

Oct 08, 2013

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

Aug 27, 2013

National Charter School Study 2013

Jul 16, 2013

Weighted Student funding for California

Jun 18, 2013

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

Jun 04, 2013

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

May 09, 2013

KIPP Middle Schools: Impacts on Achievement and Other Outcomes

Apr 30, 2013

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

Apr 23, 2013

Evaluation of Teach for America in Texas Schools

Apr 09, 2013

Does Sorting Students Improve Scores? An Analysis of Class Composition

Apr 02, 2013

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

Mar 26, 2013

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

Mar 05, 2013

State Policy Report Card

Feb 20, 2013

Charter School Performance in Michigan

Feb 12, 2013

Two Culminating Reports From The MET Project

Jan 31, 2013

The Education Choice and Competition Index: Background and Results 2012

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

Jan 15, 2013

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

Dec 06, 2012

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

Dec 04, 2012

Measures of Effective Teaching—Asking Students About Teaching

Nov 15, 2012

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

Sep 13, 2012

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

Sep 06, 2012

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

Apr 19, 2012

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

Apr 03, 2012

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

Mar 29, 2012

Overcoming the Governance Challenge in K-12 Online Learning

Mar 22, 2012

The Louisiana Recovery School District: Lessons for the Buckeye State

Mar 20, 2012

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

Mar 13, 2012

The Costs of Online Learning

Mar 06, 2012

On Her Majesty's School Inspection Service

Feb 28, 2012

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

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

Feb 07, 2012

Assessing the Compensation of Public School Teachers

Jan 31, 2012

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

Jan 19, 2012

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

Jan 10, 2012

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

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

Nov 22, 2011

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

Nov 10, 2011

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

Sep 13, 2011

Florida Formula for Student Achievement: Lessons for the Nation

Jun 30, 2011

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

Jun 16, 2011

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

Jun 02, 2011

Cross-Country Evidence on Teacher Pay for Performance

May 31, 2011

Yearning to Break Free: Ohio Superintendents Speak Out

May 03, 2011

Going Exponential: Growing the Charter School Sector's Best

Apr 21, 2011

Spend Smart: Fix Our Broken School Funding System

Apr 14, 2011

District Awards for Teacher Excellence: Final Report

Mar 03, 2011

Reform With Results for New Jersey Schools

Feb 10, 2011

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

Jan 20, 2011

Measures of Effective Teaching - Learning about Teaching: Initial Findings

Jan 13, 2011

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

Jan 11, 2011

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

Dec 14, 2010

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

Nov 30, 2010

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

Nov 18, 2010

Teacher Evaluation 2.0

Nov 16, 2010

The six research summaries supporting the "Blueprint for Reform"

Oct 05, 2010

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

Jul 14, 2010

Charter School Autonomy: A Half-Broken Promise

May 26, 2010

Has Progress Been made in Raising Achievement for English language Learners

May 19, 2010

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

May 12, 2010

They Spend WHAT? The Real Cost of Public Schools

May 05, 2010

Behind the Curtain: Assessing the Case for National Standards

Apr 21, 2010

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

Apr 15, 2010

Stuck Schools

Apr 07, 2010

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

Mar 31, 2010

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

Mar 31, 2010

America's Private Public Schools

Mar 24, 2010

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

Mar 17, 2010

Connecticut's Charter School Law and Race to the Top

Mar 10, 2010

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

Mar 03, 2010

How School Choice Can Create Jobs for South Carolina

Jan 14, 2010

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

Nov 17, 2009

How New York City's Charter Schools Affect Achievement

Nov 12, 2009

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

Aug 05, 2009

Multiple Choice: Charter School Performance in 16 States

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

Jun 22, 2009

The MPCP Longitudinal Educational Growth Study Second Year Report

May 28, 2009

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

May 27, 2009

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

May 21, 2009

Weighted Student Formula Yearbook 2009

May 13, 2009

The Impact of Milwaukee Charter Schools on Student Achievement

May 05, 2009

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

Apr 27, 2009

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

Apr 27, 2009

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

Apr 15, 2009

An Evaluation of Teachers Trained Through Different Routes to Certification

Mar 10, 2009

The High Cost of High School Dropouts in Ohio

Mar 04, 2009

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

Dec 10, 2008

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

Dec 02, 2008

Education Olympics 2008: The Games in Review

Oct 15, 2008

The Misplaced Math Student: Lost in Eighth-Grade Algebra

Oct 14, 2008

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

Sep 30, 2008

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

Sep 08, 2008

High Achieving Students in the Era of NCLB

Jul 29, 2008

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

May 22, 2008

Choice and Education across the States

Apr 29, 2008

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

Apr 24, 2008

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

Apr 07, 2008

How Sound an Investment? Analysis of Federal Prekindergarten Proposals

Mar 24, 2008

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

Feb 19, 2008

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

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

Jan 09, 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

Dec 12, 2007

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

Oct 17, 2007

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

Oct 08, 2007

The ABC’s of School Choice

Sep 24, 2007

Portfolios – A Backward Step in School Accountability

Sep 19, 2007

Michigan Higher Education: Facts and Fiction

Jul 18, 2007

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

Jul 02, 2007

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

May 24, 2007

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

May 07, 2007

How Much Are Teachers Paid?

Feb 19, 2007

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

Feb 14, 2007

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

Jan 08, 2007

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

Dec 14, 2006

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

Oct 25, 2006

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

Oct 10, 2006

Segregation Levels in Cleveland Public Schools and the Cleveland Voucher Program

Oct 05, 2006

The State of State Standards 2006

Sep 11, 2006

On the Public-Private School Achievement Debate

Aug 30, 2006

The Financial Impact of Ohio’s Charter Schools

Aug 01, 2006

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

May 31, 2006

Playing to Type? Mapping the Charter School Landscape

May 11, 2006

Trends in Charter School Authorizing

May 11, 2006

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

Feb 23, 2006

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

Feb 20, 2006

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

Feb 17, 2006

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

Jan 01, 1970

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

Jan 01, 1970

Two New Think Tank Reviews Published ... Elsewhere

Jan 01, 1970

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

Jan 01, 1970

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

Jan 01, 1970

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

Jan 01, 1970

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

Jan 01, 1970

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

Jan 01, 1970

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

Jan 01, 1970

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

Jan 01, 1970