Education Policy
Reports
The Common Core Meets State Policy: This Changes Almost EverythingPolicy Analysis for California Education, 2013.
More unequal and more separate: Growth in the residential segregation of families by income, 1970-2009US2010 Project, 2011.
The impact of No Child Left Behind on students, teachers, and schoolsBrookings Papers on Economic Activity, pp. 149-207. 2010.
Turning around chronically low-performing schools: A practice guideWashington, DC: National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education, NCEE #2008-4020, 2008.
Public policy and teacher labor markets: What we know and why it mattersThe Education Policy Center at Michigan State University, 2004.
Journal Articles
Hometown disadvantage? It depends on where you’re from: teachers' location preferences and the implications for staffing schoolsEducation Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 34(2), pp. 127-145. 2012.
In light of the limitations of data-driven decision makingEducation Finance and Policy, 7(4), pp. 1-7. 2012.
Conditional cash penalties in education: Evidence from the Learnfare experimentEconomics of Education Review, 30(5), pp. 924-937. 2011.
Policies to ensure that no child starts from behindIn Child Development and Social Policy: Knowledge for Action: Essays in honor of Edward Zigler , Washington DC: American Psychological Association Press, pp. 129-145. 2006.
Bridging policy, research and practice: Lessons of Ed ZiglerChild and Family Policy and Practice Review, 2(1), pp. 6-9. 2006.
Scientifically based practice: It’s about more than improving the quality of researchEducation Week, 2005.
School entry age. In Encyclopedia on Early Childhood DevelopmentCentre of Excellence for Early Childhood Development, 2004.
At what age should children enter kindergarten? A question for policy makers and parentsSRCD Social Policy Report, 16(2), 2002.
Investing in children: Government and workplace policies for parentsAmerican Psychologist, 44(2), pp. 416-423. 1989.
Adolescents--Too young to earn, too old to learn? Compulsory school attendance and intellectual developmentJournal of Youth and Adolescence, 10, pp. 113-139. 1981.
Working Papers
The role of simplification and information in college decisions: Results from the H&R Block FAFSA experimentNBER Working Paper No. 15361, 2012.
Research Directions for Understanding Human Resources in Broad-Access Higher Education Institutions 2011.
Books: Books, Chapters, Reviews
Education reformsIn P. Levine & D. Zimmerman (Eds.), Targeting Investments in Children: Fighting Poverty When Resources are Limited. National Bureau of Economic Research, pp. 145-180. 2010.
The Political Dynamics of American Education - Fourth Edition. Michael W. Kirst, Frederick M. Wirt. McCutchan Publishing Corporation, 393 pages. 2009.
Equity, excellence, elephants, and evidenceIn J Bransford, D. Stipek, N. Vye, L. Gomez & D. Lam (Eds.), The role of research in educational improvement, Cambridge MA: Harvard Education Press, pp. 1-17. 2009.
Excellence in the classroom. Susanna Loeb, Cecilia Rouse, Anthony Shorris. The Future of Children, 17(1), 2007.
Getting beyond the rhetoric: Surveying the evidence of Vouchers and Tax CreditsIn H. Ladd & E. Fiske (Eds.), Handbook of Research in Education Finance and Policy, New York, NY: RoutledgeFalmer, pp. 447-466. 2007.
An economic approach to education policy implementationIn M. Honig (Ed.), Defining the Field of Education Policy Implementation, State University of New York Press, 2006.
K-12 education in MichiganIn C. Ballard, P. N. Courant, D. C. Drake, R. Fischer & E. R. Gerber (Eds.), Michigan at the Millennium: A Benchmark and Analysis of its Fiscal and Economic Structure, 2003.
