Knowledge

Collected Education Research

Below is some of the education-related research I’ve collected over time from various sources. The research is organized into the topic-areas listed. I make an effort to include research from across the political/ideological spectrum, whether I agree with it or not. I update these lists periodically as more documents are added to the collection.

ACCOUNTABILITY

Does External Accountability Affect Student Outcomes? A Cross-State Analysis (EEPA) – Carnoy, Loeb [Winter 2002]
Reconsidering the Impact of High-stakes Testing (EPAA) – Braun [January 2004]
Does School Accountability Lead to Improved Student Performance? (JPAM) – Hanushek, Raymond [September 2004]
Under Pressure: Job Security, Resource Allocation, and Productivity in Schools under NCLB (RAND) – Reback, Rockoff, Schwartz [Dec. 2010]
Minimizing Testing Irregularities in Large Scale Assessment Programs (Measured Progress) – DeVito, Nearing [February 2012]
Strength In Numbers: State Spending on K-12 Assessment Systems (Brookings) – Chingos [November 2012]
High Standards Help Struggling Students: New Evidence (Ed Sector) – Clark, Cookson [November 2012]
Recommendations for Transitioning California to a Future Assessment System (CDE) – Torlakson [January 2013]
A Step Forward or a Step Back: State Accountability in the Waiver Era (Ed Trust) – Hall [February 2013]
Were All Those Standardized Tests for Nothing? The Lessons of No Child Left Behind (AEI) – Ahn, Vigdor [May 2013]
Standardized Testing and the Common Core Standards: You Get What You Pay For? (Brookings) – Chingos [October 2013]
Data–Driven Improvement And Accountability (NEPC) – Hargreaves, Braun [October 2013]
The Waive of the Future? School Accountability in the Waiver Era (Educational Researcher) – Polikoff, McEachin, Wrabel, Duque [November 2013]
It’s All Relative: How NCLB Waivers Did — And Did Not — Transform School Accountability (New America) – Hyslop [December 2013]
New Assessments: A Guide For State Policymakers (Alliance for Excellence in Education) – AEE [February 2014]
Rating States, Grading Schools: What Parents and Experts say States Should Consider to Make School Accountability Systems Meaningful (ECS) – Mikulecky, Christie [May 2014]
Estimating the Effects of No Child Left Behind on Teachers’ Work Environments and Job Attitudes (EEPA) – Grissom, Nicholson-Crotty, Harrington [June 2014]
The Impact of No Child Left Behind’s Accountability Provisions on School Performance: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from North Carolina (NBER) – Ahn, Vigdor [September 2014]
The Long‐Run Effects of Teacher Cheating on Student Outcomes: A Report for the Atlanta Public Schools (APS) – Sass, Apperson, Bueno [May 2015]
Re-Imagining Accountability in K-12 Education: A Behavioral Science Perspective (Mathematica) – Gill, Lerner, Meosky [May 2015]
Left Behind? Citizen Responsiveness to Government Performance Information (APSR) – Holbein [July 2015]
The Effects Of Test-Based Retention On Student Outcomes Over Time: Regression Discontinuity Evidence From Florida (NBER) – Schwerdt, West, Winters [August 2015]
Student test scores: How the sausage is made and why you should care (Brookings) – Jacobs [August 2016]

CHARTERS

Achievement and Attainment in Chicago Charter Schools (RAND) – Booker, Gill, Zimmer, Sass [2008]
Charter Schools in Eight States: Effects on Achievement, Attainment, Integration, and Competition (Rand) – Zimmer, Gill, Booker, Lavertu, Sass, Witte [2009]
Charter School Performance In Louisiana (Stanford) – CREDO [June 2009]
Early Achievement Impacts of The Harlem Success Academy Charter School in New York City (U Penn) – Supovitz, Rikoon [April 2010]
Fiscal Impacts Of Charter Schools: Lessons From New York (NYSED) – Bifulco, Reback [December 2011]
Explaining Charter School Eﬀectiveness (AEJ) – Angrist, Pathak, Walters [2013]
Charter School Growth and Replication: Volume I (Stanford) – Peltason, Raymond [January 2013]
Charter School Growth and Replication: Volume II (Stanford) – Peltason, Raymond [January 2013]
The Decline in Private School Enrollment (SESHD) – Ewert [January 2013]
KIPP Middle Schools: Impacts on Achievement and Other Outcomes (Mathematica) – Tuttle, Gill, Gleason, Knechtel, Nichols-Barrer, Resch [February 2013]
The Medium-Term Impacts of High-Achieving Charter Schools on Non-Test Score Outcomes (NBER) – Fryer, Dobbie [July 2013]
National Charter School Study 2013 (Stanford) – CREDO [October 2013]
Renaissance Schools Initiative Progress Report (School District of Philadelphia) – Wolford, Stratos, Reitano [December 2013]
Staying or Going? Comparing Student Attrition Rates at Charter Schools with Nearby Traditional Public Schools (NYCIBO) – NYCIBO [January 2014]
Replicating Quality: Policy Recommendations to Support the Replication and Growth of High-Performing Charter Schools and Networks (NACSA) – NACSA [January 2014]
A New Frontier: Utilizing Charter Schooling To Strengthen Rural Education (Bellwether) – Smarick [January 2014]
Charter High Schools’ Effects on Educational Attainment and Earnings (Mathematica) – Booker, Gill, Sass, Zimmer [January 2014]
Unionization and Productivity: Evidence from Charter Schools (IZA) – Hart, Sojourner [January 2014]
The State Of Charter School Authorizing 2013 (NACSA) – NACSA [May 2014]
Examining Student Mobility and School Attrition in Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools (Vanderbilt) – Greenslate, Sewell, Showah [June 2014]
Understanding the Charter School Special Education Gap: Evidence from Denver, Colorado (CRPE) – Winters [June 2014]
The Productivity of Public Charter Schools (University of Arkansas) – Wolf, Cheng, Batdorff, Maloney, May, Greene [July 2014]
Trends in state charter school laws: Authorizers, caps, performance-based closures and virtual schools (ECS) – Christie, Millard, Thomsen, Wixom [July 2014]
Does Student Attrition Explain KIPP’s Success? – Nichols-Barrer, Gill, Gleason, Tuttle [July 2014]
Making School Choice Work (CRPE) – DeArmond, Jochim, Lake [July 2014]
A Meta-Analysis of the Literature on the Effect of Charter Schools on Student Achievement (CRPE) – Betts, Tang [September 2014]
The Evolution Of Charter School Quality (NBER) – Baude, Casey, Hanushek, Rivkin [October 2014]
Charters Without Lotteries: Testing Takeovers in New Orleans and Boston (NBER) – Abdulkadiroğlu, Angrist, Hull, Pathak [December 2014]
Charter School Laws Across The States: 2015 (CER) – Zgainer, Kerwin [March 2015]
The Growing Segmentation Of The Charter School Sector In North Carolina (NBER) – Ladd, Clotfelter, Holbein [April 2015]
Charter Schools: A Survey Of Research On Their Characteristics And Effectiveness (NBER) – Epple, Romano, Zimmer [June 2015]
School Indicators for New York City Charter Schools, 2013-2014 School Year (NYCIBO) – Domanico [July 2015]
Charter School Performance in Texas (CREDO) – CREDO [July 2015]
The State of the Charter School Movement (Bellwether) – Mead, Mitchell, Rotherham [September 2015]
Differing Effects From Diverse Charter Schools: Uneven Student Selection and Achievement Growth in Los Angeles (Berkeley) – Shin, Fuller, Dauter [December 2015]
Measuring Up To The Model: A Ranking Of State Charter School Laws (NAPCS) – NAPCS [January 2016]
Teaching To The Student: Charter School Effectiveness In Spite Of Perverse Incentives (Education Policy and Social Analysis) – Cohodes [February 2016]
Charter Schools and Labor Market Outcomes (NBER) – Dobbie, Fryer [August 2016]
Charter School Boards in the Nation’s Capital (Bellwether) – Squire, Davis [September 2016]
Three Signs That A Proposed Charter School Is At Risk Of Failing (Fordham) – Nicotera, Stuit [April 2017]
Informing Equity: Student Need, Spending, and Resource Use in Oakland’s Public Schools (ERS) – ERS [June 2017]
In Pursuit of the Common Good: The Spillover Effects of Charter Schools on Public School Students in New York City (Education Finance and Policy) – Cordes [August 2017]

DISTRICT MANAGEMENT

The Tradeoff Between Teacher Wages and Layoffs to Meet Budget Cuts (CRPE) – Roza [July 2009]
Portfolio School Districts for Big Cities: An Interim Report (CRPE) – Hill, Campbell, Menefee-Libey, Dusseault, DeArmond, Gross [October 2009]
Strategic Communications for Portfolio School District Reform (CRPE) – Sperry [July 2010]
Closing Schools in a Shrinking District: Does Student Performance Depend on Which Schools are Closed? (RAND) – Engberg, Epple, Gill, Seig, Zamarro, Zimmer [2011]
New York City’s iZone (CRPE) – Lake, Gross [January 2011]
The Road to Autonomy: Can Schools, Districts, and Central Offices Find Their Way? (Ed Sector) – Dillion [June 2011]
One Vision, Seven Strategies: School Systems For the Information Age (ERS) – Miles, Baroody [December 2012]
Do School Districts Matter? (Brookings) – Whitehurst, Chingos, Gallaher [March 2013]
District/Charter Collaboration Compact (CRPE) – Yatsko, Nelson, Lake [June 2013]
Focusing on the How: Guidance for School and District Leaders on Supporting Teachers Through the Transition to the Common Core (Achievement Network) – Achievement Network [September 2013]
An Assessment of the New York City Department of Education School Support Structure (Parthenon) – Parthenon [November 2013]
The Economic Benefits of New York City’s Public School Reforms, 2002-2013 (Sonecon) – Shapiro, Hassett [December 2013]
The Education Choice and Competition Index Background and Results 2013 (Brookings) – Whitehurst, Whitfield [January 2014]
An Empirical Critique of “One Newark” (New Jersey Education Policy Forum) – Weber, Baker [January 2014]
Does School Board Leadership Matter? (Fordham) – Shober, Hartney [March 2014]
Scaling Up, Staying True: A Wallace Conference Report on Spreading Innovations in Expanded Learning (Wallace) – Browne [April 2014]
In-Depth Portfolio Assessment: Shelby County Schools | Memphis, TN (CRPE) – Campbell, Binder [June 2014]
School Superintendents: Vital or Irrelevant? (Brookings) – Chingos, Whitehurst, Lindquist [September 2014]
Back From The Brink Lawrence, MA: How a Bold Vision and a Focus on Resources Can Drive System Improvement (ERS) – ERS [April 2015]
School Closures and Student Achievement Report: An Analysis of Ohio’s Urban District and Charter Schools (Fordham) – Carlson, Lavertu [April 2015]
Common Enrollment, Parents, and School Choice Early Evidence From Denver And New Orleans (CRPE) – Gross, DeArmand, Denice [May 2015]
Redefining the School District in America (Fordham) – Smith [June 2015]
Evaluation Of The Effect Of Tennessee’s Achievement School District On Student Test Scores (SCORE) – Zimmer, Kho, Henry, Viano [December 2015]
Education Choice and Competition Index 2015 (Brookings) – Whitehurst [February 2015]
School Boards And Student Segregation (NBER) – Macartney, Singleton [July 2017]

EVALUATION

Teacher Characteristics and Gains in Student Achievement: Estimation Using Micro-Data (American Economic Review) – Hanushek, Rivkin [May 1971]
Using Student Progress To Evaluate Teachers: A Primer on Value-Added Models (ETS) – Braun [September 2005]
Can Principals Identify Effective Teachers? Evidence on Subjective Performance Evaluation in Education (NBER) – Jacob, Lefgren [June 2007]
Are Teacher-Level Value-Added Estimates Biased? An Experimental Validation of Non-Experimental Estimates (NCVM) – Kane, Staiger [March 2008]
Assessing the Potential of Using Value‐Added Estimates of Teacher Job Performance for Making Tenure Decisions (Urban Institute) – Goldhaber [November 2008]
Does Student Sorting Invalidate Value-Added Models of Teacher Effectiveness? An Extended Analysis of the Rothstein Critique (NBER) – Koedel, Betts [July 2009]
Incorporating Student Performance Measures into Teacher Evaluation Systems (RAND) – Steele, Hamilton, Stecher [2010]
Measuring Teacher and Leader Performance: Cross-Sector Lessons for Excellent Evaluations (Public Impact) – Kowal, Hassel [2010]
Using Competency-Based Evaluation to Drive Teacher Excellence: Lessons from Singapore (Public Impact) – Steiner [2010]
Generalizations about Using Value-Added Measures of Teacher Quality (American Economic Review) – Hanushek, Rivkin [May 2010]
Error Rates in Measuring Teacher and School Performance Based on Student Test Score Gains (Mathematica) – Schochet, Chiang [July 2010]
Searching for Effective Teachers with Imperfect Information (Journal of Economic Perspectives) – Staiger, Rockoff [Summer 2010]
Value Added of Teachers in High-Poverty Schools and Lower-Poverty Schools (Urban) – Sass, Hannaway, Xu, Figlio, Feng [November 2010]
Learning about Teaching: Initial Findings from the Measures of Effective Teaching Project (MET) – Met Project [December 2010]
Rating A Teacher Observation Tool: Five Ways To Ensure Classroom Observations Are Focused And Rigorous (TNTP) – TNTP [2011]
How Effective Are Los Angeles Elementary Teachers and Schools? (LA Times) – Buddin [2011]
Building Teacher Evaluation Systems: Learning From Leading Efforts (Aspen) – Aspen Institute [March 2011]
Value-Added Measures and the Future of Educational Accountability (Science) – Harris [September 2011]
The Long-Term Impacts of Teachers: Teacher Value-Added and Student Outcomes in Adulthood (NBER) – Chetty, Friedman, Rockoff [November 2011]
New Haven Public Schools: Evaluation and Development in NHPS, 2011-12 School Year (NHPS) – NHPS [2012]
Gathering Feedback for Teaching: Combining High-Quality Observations with Student Surveys and Achievement Gains (MET) – MET Project [January 2012]
Does the Model Matter? Exploring the Relationship Between Different Student Achievement-Based Teacher Assessments (CEDR) – Goldhaber, Walch [August 2012]
Rethinking Principal Evaluation: A New Paradigm Informed by Research and Practice (NAESP) – NAESP [January 2013]
The Reliability of Classroom Observations by School Personnel (MET) – Ho, Kane [January 2013]
Feedback for Better Teaching: Nine Principles for Using Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) – MET Project [January 2013]
Ensuring Fair and Reliable Measures of Effective Teaching: Culminating Findings from the MET Project’s Three-Year Study (MET) – Met Project [January 2013]
The Evergreen Effect: Washington’s Poor Evaluation System Revealed (Ed Sector) – Alderman [March 2013]
Reliability and Validity of Inferences About Teachers Based On Student Test Scores (ERS) – Haertel [March 2013]
The Consequences of Using One Assessment System To Pursue Two Objectives (NBER) – Neal [July 2013]
Measuring The Impacts Of Teachers I: Evaluating Bias In Teacher Value-Added Estimates (NBER) – Chetty, Friedman, Rockoff [September 2013]
Measuring The Impacts Of Teachers II: Teacher Value-Added And Student Outcomes In Adulthood (NBER) – Chetty, Friedman, Rockoff [September 2013]
Incentives, Selection, and Teacher Performance: Evidence From IMPACT
(NBER) – Dee, Wyckoff [October 2013]
State of the States 2013 – Connect the Dots: Using evaluations of teacher effectiveness to inform policy and practice (NCTQ) – Doherty, Jacobs [October 2013]
Educator Evaluation In Tennessee: Initial Findings From The 2013 First To The Top Survey (Vanderbilt) – Ehlert, Pepper, Parsons, Burns, Springer [October 2013]
Trends in Teacher Evaluation: How States are Measuring Teacher Performance (NSBA) – Hull [October 2013]
Access to Effective Teaching for Disadvantaged Students (Mathematica) – Isenberg, Max, Gleason, Potamites, Santillano, Hock, Hansen [November 2013]
Fixing Classroom Observations: How Common Core Will Change the Way We Look at Teaching (TNTP) – [November 2013]
School Self-Evaluation and Inspection For Improving U.S. Schools? (NEPC) – Ryan, Gandha, Ahn [November 2013]
Fixing Classroom Observations: How Common Core Will Change the Way We Look at Teaching (TNTP) – TNTP [November 2013]
An Evaluation of the Pilot Implementation of Connecticut’s System for Educator Evaluation and Development (U Conn) – Donaldson, Cobb, LeChasseur, Gabriel, Gonzales, Woulfin, Makuch [January 2014]
Using School Choice Lotteries to Test Measures of School Effectiveness (NBER) – Deming [January 2014]
Comparing estimates of teacher value-added based on criterion- and norm-referenced tests (IES) – Stuit, Austin, Berends, Gerdeman [January 2014]
Teacher Performance Evaluation and Teacher Sorting: Experimental Evidence from Chicago Public Schools (AEFP) – Sartain, Steinberg [February 2014]
Supporting Principals in Implementing Teacher Evaluation Systems (NASSP) – NASSP [February 2014]
The Opportunity Costs of Teacher Evaluation: A Labor and Equity Analysis of the TEACHNJ Legislation (Montclair State) – Larkin, Oluwole [March 2014]
Alternative student growth measures for teacher evaluation: Profiles of early‑adopting districts (Mathematica) – Gill, English, Furgeson, McCullough [April 2014]
Genuine Progress, Greater Challenges: A Decade Of Teacher Effectiveness Reforms (Bellwether) – Rotherham, Mitchel [May 2014]
Lessons from the Field: The Role Of Student Surveys In Teacher Evaluation And Development (Bellwether) – Schultz, Sud, Crowe [May 2014]
Move Over Value-Added Measures: Principals’ Human Capital Decisions and the Emergence of Teacher Observation Data (Vanderbilt) – Goldring, Grissom, Meumerski, Cannata, Rubin, Drake, Schuermann [June 2014]
Teacher Evaluations in an Era of Rapid Change: From “Unsatisfactory” to “Needs Improvement” (Bellwether) – Aldeman, Chuong [August 2014]
Trends In Teacher Effectiveness In The District Of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) School Years 2008-2009 — 2012-2013 (ODCA) – EdCORE [August 2014]
Validating Teacher Effect Estimates Using Changes In Teacher Assignments In Los Angeles (NBER) – Bacher-Hicks, Kane, Staiger [November 2014]
State of the States 2015: Evaluating Teaching, Leading and Learning (NCTQ) – Doherty, Jacobs [November 2015]
Teacher Turnover, Teacher Quality, And Student Achievement In DCPS (NBER) – Adnot, Dee, Katz, Wykoff [January 2016]
Using Lagged Outcomes To Evaluate Bias In Value-Added Models (NBER) – Chetty, Friedman, Rockoff [February 2016]
Principles for Teacher Support and Evaluation Systems (CCSSO) – CCSSO [February 2016]
Revisiting the Widget Effect: Teacher Evaluation Reforms and the Distribution of Teacher Effectiveness (Brown) – Kraft, Gilmour [February 2016]
Grading The Graders: A Report On Teacher Evaluation Reform In Public Education (Georgetown) – Toch [April 2016]
Running in Place: How New Teacher Evaluations Fail to Live Up to Promises (NCTQ) – Walsh, Joseph, Lakis, Lubell [January 2017]
Assessing Principals’ Assessments: Subjective Evaluations of Teacher Effectiveness in Low- and High-Stakes Environments (Education Finance and Policy) – Grissom, Loeb [July 2017]

LEADERSHIP

Increasing Principal Effectiveness: A Strategic Investment for ESEA (CAP) – CAP [March 2011]
Recent Leader Standards From Six Principal Pipeline Districts (Wallace Foundation) – Wallace Foundation [2013]
The School Principal As Leader: Guiding Schools To Better Teaching And Learning (Wallace Foundation) – Wallace Foundation [January 2013]
Districts Matter: Cultivating the Principals Urban Schools Need (Wallace Foundation) – Wallace Foundation [February 2013]
Laying the Foundation for Successful School Leadership (RAND) – Burkhauser, Gates, Hamilton, Li, Pierson [November 2013]
Building Pathways: How to develop the next generation of transformational school leaders (Bain & Co.) – Bierly [December 2013]
Preparing Principals to Raise Student Achievement: Implementation and Effects of the New Leaders Program in Ten Districts (RAND) – Gates, Hamilton, Martorell, Burkhauser, Heaton, Pierson, Baird, Vuollo, Li, Lavery, Harvey, Gu [2014]
Great Principals at Scale: Creating District Conditions That Enable All Principals To Be Effective (Bush Institute) – Ikemoto, Taliaferro, Fenton, Davis [June 2014]
The Challenges of Principal Recruitment, Selection, and Placement (Fordham) – Doyle, Locke [June 2014]
Building a Lattice for School Leadership: The Top-to-Bottom Rethinking of Leadership Development in England and What It Might Mean for American Education (CPRE) – Supovitz [October 2014]
Districts Taking Charge of the Principal Pipeline (Wallace) – Turnbull, Riley, MacFarlane [January 2015]
Emerging Leaders in Public Education: A Data-Informed Approach to Identifying Success Indicators (Broad) – Broad Center [September 2015]
Developing Excellent School Principals To Advance Teaching And Learning: Considerations for State Policy (Wallace) – Manna [September 2015]
How Much Do Principals Matter When It Comes To Teacher Working Conditions? (EEPA) – Burkhauser [September 2016]
Can Student Test Scores Provide Useful Measures of School Principals’ Performance? (IES) – Chiang, McCullough, Lipscomb, Gill [September 2016]
What It Takes to Operate and Maintain Principal Pipelines (Rand) – Kaufman, Gates, Harvey, Wang, Barrett [June 2017]

MISCELLANEOUS

Teaching Adolescents To Become Learners: The Role of Noncognitive Factors in Shaping School Performance: A Critical Literature Review (Chicago) – Farrington, Roderick, Allensworth, Nagaoka, Keyes, Johnson, Beechum [June 2012]
Third Grade Follow-up to the Head Start Impact Study: Final Report (OPRE) – Puma, Bell, Cook, Heid, Broene, Jenkins, Mashburn, Downe [October 2012]
School Segregation, Educational Attainment And Crime: Evidence From The End Of Busing In Charlotte-Mecklenburg (NBER) – Billings, Deming, Rockoff [October 2012]
Can Intensive Early Childhood Intervention Programs Eliminate Income-Based Cognitive and Achievement Gaps? (IZA) – Duncan, Sojourner [December 2012]
Spread of Academic Success in a High School Social Network (PLoS One) – Blansky, Kavanaugh, Boothroyd, Benson, Gallagher, Endress, Sayama [February 2013]
High School Choice in New York City: A Report on the School Choices and Placements of Low-Achieving Students (IESP) – Nathanson, Corcoran, Baker-Smith [April 2013]
Who Rises to the Top? Early Indicators (Psychological Science) – Kell, Lubinski, Benbow [July 2013]
A New Majority: Low Income Students in the South and Nation (SEF) – SEF [October 2013]
Early Reading Proficiency in the United States (Annie E. Casey) – Annie E. Casey [January 2014]
Cognitive Style as Environmentally Sensitive Individual Differences in Cognition: A Modern Synthesis and Applications in Education, Business, and Management (APS) – Kozhevnikov, Evans, Kosslyn [April 2014]
Reading Partners: The Implementation and Effectiveness of a One-on-One Tutoring Program Delivered by Community Volunteers (MRDC) – Jacob, Smith, Willard, Rifkin [June 2014]
2014 Kids Count Data Book (Annie E. Casey) – Annie E. Casey [July 2014]
A gradient of childhood self-control predicts health, wealth, and public safety (National Academy of Sciences) – Moffitt, Arseneault, Belsky, Dickson, Hancox, Harrington, Houts, Poulton, Roberts, Ross, Sears, Thomson, Caspi [August 2014]
Sense of Control Under Uncertainty Depends on People’s Childhood Environment: A Life History Theory Approach (Journal of Personality and Social Psychology) – Mittal, Griskevicius [August 2014]
A New Majority: Low Income Students Now a Majority In the Nation’s Public Schools (SEF) – SEF [January 2015]
Increasing Education: What It Will And Will Not Do For Earnings And Earnings Inequality (Hamilton Project) – Hershbein, Kearney, Summers [March 2015]
Investing In Change: The Walton Family Foundation Charts A New Course (Grantmakers In Education) – Wisdom [October 2015]
Indicators Of Higher Education Equity In The United States (Pell Institute) – Pell Institute [April 2016]
Fault Lines: America’s Most Segregating School District Borders (EdBuild) – EdBuild [August 2016]
The US Education Innovation Index (Bellwether) – Weeby, Robson, Wu [September 2016]

NEW ORLEANS

The New Orleans Book (OPSB) – OPSB [1919]
The New Orleans School Crisis: A Report of the Louisiana State Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights (U.S. Commission on Civil Rights) – Louisiana State Advisory Committee [1961]
The Future of Public Education in New Orleans (Urban) – Hill, Hannaway [January 2006]
Stakeholder Organizations: Hurricane Katrina and the New Orleans Public Schools (Schools, Culture, and Trauma) – Beabout [Winter 2007]
The Plight of the Education Systems—Post Hurricane Katrina: An Interview with Dr. Brenda Mitchell and Dr. Linda Stelly (High School Journal) – Perry [January 2007]
Merging Identities: A Glimpse into the World of Albert Wicker, An African American Leader in New Orleans, 1893-1928 (UNO) – Smith [December 2007]
The State of Public Education in New Orleans: 2008 (Tulane) – Cowen Institute [April 2008]
When The Saints Come Marching In: Effects Of Hurricanes Katrina And Rita On Student Evacuees (NBER) – Sacerdote [October 2008]
Teaching in the Storm’s Wake: Post-Katrina Public Education Reform in New Orleans (APSA) – Burns, Thomas [September 2009]
Creating a Governing Framework for Public Education in New Orleans: School District Political Leadership (Tulane) – Cowen Institute [November 2009]
Educational Greenfield: A Critical Policy Analysis of Plans to Transform New Orleans Public Schools (Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies) – Torregano, Shannon [November 2009]
Disrupted but Not Destroyed: Fictive-Kinship Networks among Black Educators in Post-Katrina New Orleans (Southern Anthropologist) – Cook [2010]
The State of Public Education in New Orleans: 2010 (Tulane) – Cowen Institute [2010]
Managing Innovation: Models for Governing the System of Public Schools in New Orleans (Tulane, BGR) – Cowen, BGR [May 2010]
The State of Public Schools in Post‐Katrina New Orleans: The Challenge of Creating Equal Opportunity (Institute on Race & Poverty) – Institute on Race & Poverty [May 2010]
Transforming Public Education in New Orleans: The Recovery School District, 2003 – 2011 (Tulane) – Vaughn, Mogg, Zimmerman, O’Neill [2011]
Race, Charter Schools, and Conscious Capitalism: On the Spatial Politics of Whiteness as Property (and the Unconscionable Assault on Black New Orleans) (Harvard Educational Review) – Buras [Summer 2011]
The State of Public Education in New Orleans: 2012 (Tulane) – Cowen Institute [2012]
The Louisiana Recovery School District: Lessons For The Buckeye State (Fordham) – Smith [January 2012]
New Orleans Parents’ Guide to Public Schools: Spring 2012 Edition (NOPON) – NOPON [Spring 2012]
New Orleans By The Numbers: Act Scores, Class of 2012 (Tulane) – Cowen Institute [December 2012]
New Orleans Education Reform: A Guide for Cities or a Warning for Communities? (Berkeley Review of Education) – Buras [2013]
Vision For Quality Education In New Orleans (UNTO) – UTNO [2013]
Spotlight on Choice: Parent Opinions on School Selection in New Orleans (Tulane) – Cowen Institute [January 2013]
New Orleans By The Numbers: School Performance Scores, 2013 (Tulane) – Cowen Institute [November 2013]
New Orleans Public School Governance Structure: 2013-2014 School Year (Tulane) – Cowen Institute [December 2013]
Nola By The Numbers: Free And Reduced-Price Lunch Eligibility, Feb. 2014 (Tulane) – Cowen Institute [April 2014]
Voters’ Perceptions: Public Education In New Orleans, Spring 2014 (Tulane) – Cowen Institute [June 2014]
The State of Public Education in New Orleans 2014 Report (Tulane) – Sims, Vaughan [July 2014]
New Orleans Public School Governance Structure: 2014-2015 School Year (Tulane) – Cowen Institute [September 2014]
Public High Schools in New Orleans: Academic Achievement and Vulnerable Student Populations (Tulane) – Sims, Vaughn [September 2014]
Charters Without Lotteries: Testing Takeovers In New Orleans And Boston (NBER) – Abdulkadiroğlu, Angrist, Hull, Pathak [December 2014]
Special Education in New Orleans: Juggling Flexibility, Reinvention, and Accountability in the Nation’s Most Decentralized School System (CRPE) – Schnalberg, Lake [January 2015]
What Schools Do Families Want (And Why)? (Education Research Alliance) – Harris, Larson [January 2015]
2014 Education Choice and Competition Index – RSD Detailed Report (Brookings) – Brookings [February 2015]
How Do School Leaders Respond To Competition? (Education Research Alliance) – Jabbar [March 2015]
Forward New Orleans For Public Schools: Midterm Progress Report (FNOPS) – FNOPS [May 2015]
The State of Public Education in New Orleans: 10 Years After Hurricane Katrina (Tulane) – Sims, Rossmeier [June 2015]
Ten Years in New Orleans: Public School Resurgence and the Path Ahead (NSNO) – Holly, Field, Kim, Hassel, Runyan-Shefa, Stone, Zaunbrecher [August 2015]
Significant Changes In The New Orleans Teacher Workforce (Education Research Alliance) – Barrett, Harris [August 2015]
Good News For New Orleans: Early evidence shows reforms lifting student achievement (Education Next) – Harris [Fall 2015]
The New Orleans OneApp: Centralized Enrollment Matches Students And Schools Of Choice (Education Next) – Harris, Valant, Gross [Fall 2015]
Many Options In New Orleans Choice System (Education Next) – Arce-Trigatti, Harris, Jabbar, Lincove [Fall 2015]
The Hidden Connection in City-wide Reform: How Charter Schools Can Bring Equity to Public Education (NAPCS) – Kingsland [September 2015]
New Orleans Public School Governance (Cowen Institute) – Sims [September 2015]
The Effects Of The New Orleans Post-Katrina School Reforms On Student Academic Outcomes (Education Research Alliance) – Harris, Larsen [February 2016]
What Happens Next? Voters’ Perceptions of K-12 Public Education in New Orleans (Tulane) – Babineau, Hand, Rossmeier [April 2016]
What Happened To Student Mobility After The New Orleans’ Market-Based School Reforms? (Tulane) – Maroulis, Santillano, Harris, Jabbar [May 2016]
Grappling With Discipline in Autonomous Schools: New Approaches From D.C. and New Orleans (CRPE) – Gross, Tuchman, Yatsko [June 2016]
Multiple Choice: How Public School Leaders in New Orleans’ Saturated Market View Private School Competitors (EPAA) – Jabbar, Li [September 2016]
The Effects Of Performance-Based School Closure And Charter Takeover On Student Performance (Education Research Alliance) – Bross, Harris, Liu [October 2016]
Does School Reform = Spending Reform? The Effect Of The New Orleans School Reforms On The Use And Level Of School Expenditures (Education Research Alliance) – Buerger, Harris [January 2017]
Perceptions of Public Education in New Orleans 2017 (Tulane University) – Rossmeier, Hand, Babineau [May 2017]

PERFORMANCE

Laggards In Our Schools: A Study Of Retardation and Elimination in City School Systems (Russell Sage Foundation) – Ayres [1909]
Teachers, Schools, and Academic Achievement (Econometrica) – Rivkin, Hanushek, Kain [March 2005]
Teacher-Student Matching and The Assessment Of Teacher Effectiveness (NBER) – Clotfelter, Ladd, Vigdor [January 2006]
Instructional Practices Related to Standards and Assessments (RAND) – Hamilton, Berends [April 2006]
The impact of high-stakes testing on student proﬁciency in low-stakes subjects: Evidence from Florida’s elementary science exam (EER) – Winters, Trivett, Greene [September 2008]
Effective Evaluation of Alternative Education Programs in Oregon (Superintendent’s Summer Institute) – Wang, Edwards [August 2009]
Performance Management in Portfolio School Districts (CRPE) – Lake, Hill [August 2009]
What Makes for a Good Teacher and Who Can Tell? (Urban) – Harris, Sass [September 2009]
The Impact of Teacher Experience: Examining the Evidence and Policy Implications – (Urban) – Rice [August 2010]
Teacher Pay for Performance: Experimental Evidence from the Project on Incentives in Teaching (Vanderbilt) – Springer, Ballou, Hamilton, Le, Lockwood, McCaffrey, Pepper, Stecher [September 2010]
Countries with performance pay for teachers score higher on PISA tests (Education Next) – Woessman [Spring 2011]
The Economic Value of Higher Teacher Quality (Economics of Education Review) – Hanushek [June 2011]
LA 4: Longitudinal Study: The Impact of LA 4 Participation on Academic Achievement in 3rd & 4th Grade – August 2011 (LDOE) – Ramey, Ramey, Asmus [August 2011]
A Big Apple for Educators New York City’s Experiment with Schoolwide Performance Bonuses (Rand) – Marsh, Springer, McCaffrey, Yuan, Epstein, Koppich, Kalra, DiMartino, Peng [October 2011]
Getting Beneath the Veil of Effective Schools: Evidence from New York City (NBER) – Dobbie, Fryer [Novermber 2011]
The 2012 Brown Center Report on American Education: How Well Are American Students Learning? (Brookings) – Loveless [February 2012]
Enhancing the Efficacy of Teacher Incentives Through Loss Aversion: A Field Experiment (NBER) – Fryer, Levitt, List, Sadoff [July 2012]
Evaluation of Teach For America in Texas Schools (EdVance) – Turner, Goodman, Adachi, Brite, Decker [December 2012]
Non-Cognitive Ability, Test Scores, And Teacher Quality: Evidence From 9th Grade Teachers In North Carolina (NBER) – Jackson [December 2012]
Do First Impressions Matter? Improvement in Early Career Teacher Effectiveness (AIR) – Atteberry, Loeb, Wykoff [February 2013]
Teacher Performance Trajectories in High and Lower-Poverty Schools (AIR) – Xu, Ozek, Hansen [July 2013]
The Road to Equity – Expanding AP Access and Success for African-American Students (Broad Foundation) – Broad Foundation [Summer 2013]
The Effectiveness of Secondary Math Teachers from Teach For America and the Teaching Fellows Programs (IES) – Clark, Chiang, Silva, McConnell, Sonnenfold, Erbe [September 2013]
Quality School Ratings: Trends in Evaluating School Academic Quality (NAPCS) – Boast, Field [October 2013]
The Experiences Of One New York City High School Cohort: Opportunities, Successes, And Challenges (EFRI) – Ready, Hatch, Warner, Chu [October 2013]
A First Look: 2013 Mathematics and Reading Trial Urban District Assessment (NCES)- NAEP [December 2013]
The Effect of Teach for America on the Distribution of Student Achievement in Primary School: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment (Economics of Education Review) – Antecol, Eren, Ozbeklik [December 2013]
Learning that Lasts: Unpacking Variation in Teachers’ Effects on Students’ Long-Term Knowledge (AIR) – Master, Loeb, Wykoff [January 2014]
Can You Leave High School Behind? (NBER) – Black, Lincove, Cullinane, Douglas [January 2014]
2014 Brown Center Report: How Well Are American Students Learning?(Brookings) – Loveless [March 2014]
Looking at the Best Teachers and Who They Teach Poor Students and Students of Color are Less Likely to Get Highly Effective Teaching (CAP) – DeMonte, Hanna [April 2014]
Half of PA’s Schools Fail to Meet State Proficiency Targets (PILCOP) – Churchill [April 2014]
Examining Spillover Effects from Teach For America Corps Members in Miami-Dade County Public Schools (AIR) – Hansen, Backes, Brady, Xu [June 2014]
Representation in the Classroom: The Effect of Own- Race/Ethnicity Teacher Assignment on Student Achievement (EDRE) – Egalite, Kasida, Winters [September 2014]
Headed to College: The effects of New York City’s Small high Schools of Choice on Postsecondary enrollment (MDRC) – Unterman [October 2014]
The Effects Of School Spending On Educational And Economic Outcomes: Evidence From School Finance Reforms (NBER) – Jackson, Johnson, Persico [January 2015]
Teachers’ Pay For Performance In The Long-Run: Effects On Students’ Educational And Labor Market Outcomes In Adulthood (NBER) – Lavy [February 2015]
Evaluation of Teach For America: 2014-2015 (Dallas ISD) – Mickelson, McEurtuff [July 2015]
Bringing It Back Home: Why state comparisons are more useful than international comparisons for improving U.S. education policy (EPI) – Carnoy, Garcia, Khavenson [November 2015]
Education at a Glance 2015 (OECD) – OECD [November 2015]
School Vouchers And Student Achievement: First-Year Evidence From The Louisiana Scholarship Program (NBER) – Abdulkadiroglu, Pathak, Walters [December 2015]
Cognitive fatigue influences students’ performance on standardized tests (PNAS) – Sievertsen, Gino, Piovesan [January 2015]
Want to Improve Low-Performing Schools? Focus On The Adults (AIR) – LeFloch, Garcia, Barbour [March 2016]
Educational opportunity in early and middle childhood: Variation by place and age (Stanford) – Reardon [December 2017]

PERSONNEL POLICIES

Missed Opportunities: How We Keep High-Quality Teachers Out of Urban Classrooms (TNTP) – Levin, Quinn [2003]
Teach for America Teachers’ Contribution to Student Achievement in Louisiana in Grades 4-9: 2004-2005 to 2006-2007 (LSU) – Noell, Gansle [October 2009]
Shooting for Stars: Cross-Sector Lessons for Retaining High-Performing Educators (Public Impact) – Ableidinger, Kowal [2010]
Distribution Of Benefits In Teacher Retirement Systems And Their Implications For Mobility (AEFA) – Costrell, Podgursky [2010]
A Smarter Teacher Layoff Policy (TNTP) – TNTP [March 2010]
Strategic Staffing For Successful Schools: Breaking The Cycle Of Failure In Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (ERS) – Travers, Christiansen [April 2010]
Talent Management in Portfolio Districts (CRPE) – Campbell, DeArmond [November 2010]
The Promise of Cafeteria-Style Benefits for Districts and Teachers (CRPE) – Wepman, Roza, Sepe [December 2010]
Teacher Tenure Reform Applying Lessons from the Civil Service and Higher Education (Public Impact) – Hassel, Kowal, Ableidinger, Hassel [2011]
The Case Against Quality-Blind Teacher Layoffs (TNTP) – TNTP [February 2011]
Teacher Quality at the High-School Level: The Importance of Accounting for Tracks (NBER) – Jackson [January 2012]
Early Retirement Incentives and Student Achievement (NBER) – Fitzpatrick, Lovenheim [October 2012]
Keeping Irreplaceables in D.C. Public Schools: Lessons in Smart Teacher Retention (TNTP) – TNTP [November 2012]
SDP Human Capital Diagnostic: Los Angeles Unified School District (Harvard) – SDP [November 2012]
Retaining a High Quality Teaching Workforce: The Effects of Pension Design (UVA) – Mahler [December 2012]
Involuntary Teacher Transfers and Student Achievement: Examining Equity and Efficiency (Miami-Dade) – Grissom, Loeb, Nakashima [July 2013]
Better Pay, Fairer Pensions: Reforming Teacher Compensation (Manhattan) – McGee, Winters [September 2013]
Right-sizing the Classroom: Making the Most of Great Teachers (AIR) – Hansen [November 2013]
Teach For America: A Return To The Evidence (NEPC) – Vasquez-Heilig, Jez [January 2014]
2013 State Teacher Policy Yearbook – Louisiana (NCTQ) – NCTQ [January 2014]
Identifying Effective Turnaround Teachers (Reform Support Network) – Reform Support Network [March 2014]
Performance Screens for School Improvement: The Case of Teacher Tenure Reform in New York City (NYCDOE) – Loeb, Miller, Wyckoff [June 2014]
Unequal access, unequal results: Equitable teacher distribution in Miami-Dade County Public Schools (NCTQ) – Kumar, Waymack [August 2014]
Teacher And Student Migration In And Out Of Tennessee’s Achievement School District (TCRED) – Henry, Zimmer, Attridge, Kho, Viano [January 2014]
Teacher Layoffs, Teacher Quality, and Student Achievement: Evidence from a Discretionary Layoff Policy (Education Finance and Policy) – Kraft [August 2015]
Teacher Applicant Hiring And Teacher Performance:Evidence From DC Public Schools (NBER) – Jacob, Rockoff, Taylor, Lindy, Rosen [March 2016]
The Effects of Differential Pay on Teacher Recruitment, Retention and Quality (Calder) – Bueno, Sass [October 2016]
An Effective Teacher for Every Student: Developing a Research Agenda to Further Policy Change (PACE) – Strunk, Marsh, Bruno [February 2017]

STATE/FEDERAL POLICY

Creating Capacity for Change: How and Why Governors and Legislatures are Opening a New-Schools Sector in Public Education (Center for Policy Studies) – Kolderie [2005]
Opportunity at the Top: How America’s Best Teachers Could Close the Gaps, Raise the Bar, and Keep Our Nation Great (Public Impact) – Hassel, Hassel [2010]
How Federal Education Policy Can Reverse the Widget Effect (TNTP) – TNTP [February 2010]
Seizing Opportunity at the Top: How the U.S. Can Reach Every Student With an Excellent Teacher (Public Impact) – Hassel, Hassel [2011]
The Impact of No Child Left Behind on Student Achievement (JPAA) – Dee, Jacob [2011]
Restructuring Resources for High-Performing Schools: A Primer for State Policymakers (ERS) – Miles, Baroody, Regenstein [June 2011]
Getting Better at Teacher Preparation and State Accountability: Strategies, Innovations, and Challenges Under the Federal Race to the Top Program (CAP) – Crowe [December 2011]
Policy Evaluation Versus Explanation Of Outcomes In Education: That Is, Is It The Teachers? Is It The Parents? (AEFP) – Startz [2012]
State Implementation and Perceptions of Title I School Improvement Grants under the Recovery Act: One Year Later (CEP) – McMurrer, McIntosh [March 2012]
Instructional Alignment under No Child Left Behind (AEJ) – Polikoff [April 2012]
New York State Special Education Enrollment Analysis (CRPE) – Lake, Gross, Denice [November 2012]
The Education Choice And Competition Index 2012 (Brookings) – Whitehurst, Whitfield [December 2012]
State of Education: State Policy Report Card 2013 (Students First) – Students First [2013]
Giving Every Student Access to Excellent Teachers: A Vision for Focusing Federal Investments in Education (CAP) – CAP [November 2013]
The SEA of the Future: Prioritizing Productivity (Edvance) – Gross, Jochim, Podgursky, Rosa, DQC [November 2013]
Time for the U.S. to Reskill? What The Survey Of Adult Skills Says (OCED) – OECD [November 2013]
Financing the Education of High-Need Students (Fordham) – Richmond, Fairchild [November 2013]
The Capacity Challenge: What It Takes for State Education Agencies to Support School Improvement (CRPE) – Jochim, Murphy [December 2013]
Colorado’s Turnaround Schools 2010 – 2013: Make a Wish (DFER, A+ Denver) – Shoales [December 2013]
New Jersey Schools: A Framework For Excellence (JerseyCAN) – JerseyCAN [December 2013]
New Jersey Schools: A Framework For Excellence – Short-term Goals (JerseyCAN) – JerseyCAN [December 2013]
Operational Authority, Support, And Monitoring Of School Turnaround (IES) – IES [December 2013]
School Choice Signals: Research Review and Survey Experiments (Friedman) – Carpenter [January 2014]
StudentsFirst 2014 State Policy Report Card (StudentsFirst) – StudentsFirst [January 2014]
Public Accountability & Private School Choice (Fordham) – Fordham [January 2014]
Putting Students First: Final Action Plan (New NY Education Reform Commission) – New NY Education Reform Commission [January 2014]
State Implementation of Reforms Promoted Under the Recovery Act (IES) – Webber, Troppe, Milanowski, Gutmann, Reisner, Goertz [January 2014]
Common Core in the Districts: An Early Look At Early Implementers(Fordham) – Cristol, Ramsey [February 2014]
How Well Aligned Are Textbooks to the Common Core Standards in Mathematics? (AEF) – Polikoff [March 2014]
Seeing Past the Myth of Colorblind Education Policy (NEPC) – Wells [April 2014]
The State Education Agency: At The Helm, Not The Oar (Fordham) – Smarick, Squire [April 2014]
The Effect Of School Finance Reforms On The Distribution Of Spending, Academic Achievement, And Adult Outcomes (NBER) – Jackson, Johnson, Persico [May 2014]
Policy Barriers to School Improvement: What’s Real and What’s Imagined?(CRPE) – Miller, Lee [June 2014]
Roadmap for a Successful Transition to the Common Core in States and Districts (CAP) – Martin, Marchitello, Lazarin [June 2014]
Shortchanging New Jersey Students: How Inadequate Funding Has Led to Reduced Staff and Growing Disparities in the State’s Public Schools (Ed Law Center) – Ed Law Center [July 2014]
What Studies Say About School Turnarounds (EWA) – Brownstein [December 2014]
How ESEA Title I, Part A, Funding Can Better Serve the Most Disadvantaged Students (CAP) – Hanna [January 2015]
School Improvement Grants: Progress Report from America’s Great City Schools (CGCS) – CGCS [February 2015]
The 2014 Education Choice and Competition Index (Brookings) – Whitehurst, Klein [February 2015]
Public Education Finances: 2013 (US Census Bureau) – US Census Bureau [June 2015]
Is School Funding Fair? A National Report Card (Rutgers) – Bakers, Sciarra, Farrie [June 2015]
Cheating Our Future: How Decades of Disinvestment by States Jeopardizes Equal Educational Opportunity (Education Law Center) – Education Law Center [June 2015]
Comparative Indicators of Education in the United States and Other G-20 Countries: 2015 (NCES) – Stephens, Warren, Harner, Owen [December 2015]
Public information, public learning and public opinion: democratic accountability in education policy (Journal of Public Policy) – Clinton, Grissom [December 2015]
State and Local-Imposed Requirements Complicate Federal Efforts to Reduce Administrative Burden (GAO) – GAO [February 2016]
Expanding Equity: Leveraging the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) to provide Direct Student Services (Chiefs For Change) – Chiefs For Change [April 2016]
The Empire Strikes Back: The Sudden Rise and Ongoing Challenges of Democrats for Education Reform (AEI) – Russo [April 2016]

STUDENT-BASED BUDGETING

Understanding Student-Weighted Allocation as a Means to Greater School Resource Equity (Peabody Journal Of Education) – Miles, Roza [2006]
Fund the Child: Tackling Inequity & Antiquity in School Finance (Fordham) – Fordham [June 2006]
A Tale Of Two Districts: A Comparative Study of Student- Based Funding and School-Based Decision Making in San Francisco and Oakland Unified School Districts (AIR) – Chambers, Shambaugh, Levin, Muraki, Poland [October 2008]
Student-Based Budgeting (Annenberg) – Annenberg [Fall 2010]
A Handbook for Student-Based Budgeting, Principal Autonomy and School Choice (Reason Foundation) – Snell [March 2013]
Is It Getting Fairer: Examining Five Years of School Allocations Under Fair Student Funding (NYCIBO) – NYCIBO [April 2013]
Transforming School Funding: A Guide to Implementing Student-Based Budgeting (ERS) – ERS [January 2014]

TEACHER PREP & CAREER

Teacher Training, Teacher Quality And Student Achievement (Urban) – Harris, Sass [March 2007]
Teacher Preparation And Student Achievement (NBER) – Boyd, Grossman, Lankford, Loeb, Wyckoff [September 2008]
Value Added Teacher Preparation Assessment: Overview Of 2007-08 Study (LSU) – Noell, Burns [2009]
Teachers At Work: Improving Teacher Quality Through School Design (Ed Sector) – Silva [October 2009]
Teacher Preparation and Student Test Scores in North Carolina (UNC) – Henry, Thompson, Bastian, Fortner, Kershaw, Purtell, Zulli [June 2010]
Closing the talent gap: Attracting and retaining top-third graduates to careers in teaching (McKinsey) – Auguste, Kihn, Miller [September 2010]
A Measured Approach to Improving Teacher Preparation (Ed Sector) – Aldeman, Carey, Miller, Silva [January 2011]
The Middle School Teacher Turnover Project A Descriptive Analysis of Teacher Turnover in New York City’s Middle Schools – (Research Alliance for NYC Schools) – Marinell [February 2011]
When They’re Sixty-Four: Peer Effects and the Timing of Retirement (AEJ) – Brown, Laschever [2012]
Raising the Bar: Aligning And Elevating Teacher Preparation And The Teaching Profession (AFT) – AFT [2012]
Teacher Preparation Programs and Teacher Quality: Are There Real Differences Across Programs? (Missouri) – Koedel, Parsons, Podgursky, Elhert [June 2012]
The Sheepskin Effect and Student Achievement: De-emphasizing the Role of Master’s Degrees in Teacher Compensation (CAP) – Miller, Roza [July 2012]
Left Out of No Child Left Behind: Teach for America’s Outsized Influence on Alternative Certification (AEI) – Russo [October 2012]
Seven Trends: The Transformation of the Teaching Force (CPRE) – Ingersoll, Merrill [November 2012]
MetLife Teacher Survey 2012 (MetLife) – Markow, Macia, Lee [February 2013]
How Teacher Turnover Harms Student Achievement (AEJA) – Ronfeldt, Loeb, Wykoff [February 2013]
Who Is In Charge of Teacher Preparation? (CAP) – DeMonte [June 2013]
NYCDOE Teacher Preparation Program Reports 2013 (NYCDOE) – NYCDOE [August 2013]
Teacher Turnover in High-Poverty Schools: What We Know and Can Do(HGSE) – Simon, Johnson [August 2013]
Re-Imagining Teaching: Five Structures to Transform the Profession(NNSTOY) – NNSTOY [October 2013]
2013 Global Teacher Status Index (Varney GEMS Foundation) – Dolton, Marcenaro-Gutierrez [October 2013]
Evaluation of Teacher Preparation Programs: Purposes, Methods, and Policy Options (National Academy of Education) – Feuer, Floden, Chudowsky, Ahn [November 2013]
2013 Report Card on the Effectiveness of Teacher Training Programs (THEC) – THEC [November 2013]
In the Quest to Improve Schools, Have Teachers Been Stripped of Their Autonomy? (CAP) – Boser, Hanna [January 2014]
FastStart – Training Better Teachers Faster, With Focus, Practice, and Feedback (TNTP) – TNTP [March 2014]
Beginners in the Classroom: What the Changing Demographics of Teaching Mean for Schools, Students, and Society (CFAT) – Headden [March 2014]
Teaching: The Next Generation (Third Way) – Hiler, Hatalsky [April 2014]
From Good to Great: Exemplary Teachers Share Perspectives on Increasing Teacher Effectiveness Across the Career Continuum (AIR) – Behrstock-Sherratt, Bassett, Olson, Jacques [April 2014]
Licensure And Worker Quality: A Comparison Of Alternative Routes To Teaching (Georgia State) – Sass [April 2014]
How State Takeover School Districts Shake Up Teacher Professional Development (CAP) – Pennington [June 2014]
2014 Teacher Prep Review (NCTQ) – Greenberg, Walsh, McKee [June 2014]
Teacher Attrition and Mobility: Results From the 2012–13 Teacher Follow-up Survey (NCES) – Goldring, Taie, Riddles, Owens [September 2014]
The Value Of Smarter Teachers: International Evidence On Teacher Cognitive Skills And Student Performance (NBER) – Hanushek, Piopiunik, Weiderhold [December 2014]
Trends in teacher certification: Equipping teachers to prepare proficient readers (ECS) – Rowland [January 2014]
Clinically Oriented Teacher Preparation Research Report: June 2015 (URTU) – URTU [June 2015]
Teacher Preparation Programs: Education Should Ensure States Identify Low-Performing Programs and Improve Information Sharing (GAO) – GAO [July 2015]
Weak Markets, Strong Teachers: Recession At Career Start And Teacher Effectiveness (NBER) – Nagler, Piopiunik, West [July 2015]
Pension Enhancements and the Retention of Public Employees: Evidence from Teaching (Calder) – Koedel, Xiang [October 2015]
The Pension Pac-Man: How Pension Debt Eats Away at Teacher Salaries (Bellwether) – Aldeman [May 2016]
Pensions and Late Career Teacher Retention (Calder) – Kim, Koedel, Ni, Podgursky, Wu [October 2016]
(No) Money In The Bank: Which Retirement Systems Penalize New Teachers? (Fordham) – Lueken [January 2017]

UNIONS

Teacher Strikes: A Proposed Solution (Journal of Urban and Contemporary Law) – Rosenberg [1979]
Public Sector Bargaining Laws Really Matter: Evidence from Ohio and Illinois (NBER) – Saltzman [1988]
Choosing The Wrong Pond: Social Comparisons In Negotiations That Reflect A Self-Serving Bias (Quarterly Journal of Economics) – Babcock, Wang, Loewenstein [February 1996]
Are Teachers’ Unions Hurting American Education? A State-by-State Analysis of the Impact of Collective Bargaining Among Teachers on Student Performance (Institute for Wisconsin’s Future) – Nelson, Rosen [October 1996]
Teachers’ Unions In Hard Times (Harvard) – Boyd, Plank, Sykes [September 1998]
The Challenge Of Leading Two Generations Within The Teachers Union(HGSE) – Johnson, Donaldson, Munger, Papay, Qazilbash [March 2008]
Invisible Ink in Collective Bargaining: Why Key Issues Are Not Addressed(NCTQ) – Cohen, Walsh, Biddle [July 2008]
Collaborating on School Reform: Creating Union-Management Partnerships to Improve Public School Systems (Rutgers) – Rubinstein, McCarthy [October 2010]
How Strong Are U.S. Teacher Unions? A State-By-State Comparison(Fordham) – Winkler, Scull, Zeehandelaar [October 2012]
State Teacher Union Strength And Student Achievement (Economics of Education Review) – Lott, Kenny [March 2013]
Public Sector Collective Bargaining, Majoritarianism, and Reform (Oregon Law Review) – Rosenthal [March 2013]
How do Teachers’ Unions Influence Education Policy? What We Know and What We Need to Learn (Michigan State) – Cowen, Strunk [April 2014]
NJEA Collective Bargaining Manual (NJEA) – NJEA [April 2015]
The Myth of Unions’ Overprotection of Bad Teachers: Evidence from the District-Teacher Matched Panel Data on Teacher Turnover (Harvard) – Han [October 2015]
Our TURN: Revitalizing Public Education and Strengthening Our Democracy Through the Collective Wisdom of Teachers (TURN) – TURN [October 2017]