Reports
Reports
What Do We Know About the Tradeoffs Associated with Teacher Misclassification in High Stakes Personnel Decisions? The Carnegie Knowledge Network, 2013.
SFUSD Survey Report I: Teacher EvaluationCenter for Education Policy Analysis, Stanford University, 2013.
SFUSD Survey Report II: Teacher HiringCenter for Education Policy Analysis, Stanford University, 2013.
SFUSD Survey Report III: Career Pathways for Principals and Assistant PrincipalsCenter for Education Policy Analysis, Stanford University, 2013.
The Common Core Meets State Policy: This Changes Almost EverythingPolicy Analysis for California Education, 2013.
How stable are value-added estimates across years, subjects, and student groups? The Carnegie Knowledge Network, 2012.
Three Ideas for Broad-Access Higher EducationA report on the conference, “Mapping Broad-Access Higher Education”, Stanford University, 1-2 December 2011, 2011.
More unequal and more separate: Growth in the residential segregation of families by income, 1970-2009US2010 Project, 2011.
Broad-Access Higher Education: A Research Framework for a New EraA report on the conference, “Reform and Innovation in the Changing Ecology of U.S. Higher Education: Inaugural Strategy Session”, Stanford University, 2-3 December 2010, 2010.
The impact of No Child Left Behind on students, teachers, and schoolsBrookings Papers on Economic Activity, pp. 149-207. 2010.
The Quality Teacher and Education Act in San Francisco: Lessons LearnedPolicy Analysis for California Education, 2009.
The Development of a Teacher Salary Parcel Tax: The Quality Teacher and Education Act in San FranciscoPolicy Analysis for California Education, 2009.
The development of a teacher salary parcel tax: The quality teacher and education act in San FranciscoPolicy Analysis for California Education, 2009.
Teacher quality: Improving teacher quality and distributionNational Academy of Education Policy White Paper Series, 2008.
Funding student learning: How to align education resources with student learning goalsSchool Finance Redesign Project, Center on Reinventing Public Education: University of Washington, 2008.
Learning what works: Continuous improvement in California's education systemPolicy Analysis for California Education, 2008.
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.
Building an information system to support continuous improvement in California public schoolsPolicy Analysis for California Education, 2008.
District dollars: Painting a picture of revenues and expenditures in California’s school districtsGetting Down to Facts Project: Stanford University, 2007.
California principals’ resources: Acquisition, deployment, and barriersGetting Down to Facts Project: Stanford University, 2007.
A review of state teacher policies: What are they, what are their effects, and what are their implications for school finance? Getting Down to Facts Project: Stanford University, 2007.
The effects of school size on parental involvement and social capital: Evidence from the ELS: 2002Brookings Papers on Education Policy 2006/2007, Brookings Institution Press, pp. 77-97. 2007.
Efficiency and Adequacy in California School Finance: A Professional Judgment ApproachGetting Down to Facts, 2007.
Equality and Adequacy in the State’s Provision of Education: Mapping the Conceptual LandscapeGetting Down to Facts, 2007.
Aligning School Finance with Academic Standards: A Weighted-Student Formula Based on a Survey of PractitionersGetting Down to Facts, 2007.
The Evolution of California’s State School Finance System and Implications from Other StatesGetting Down to Facts, 2007.
Teacher Compensation and Local Labor Market Conditions in California: Implications for School FundingGetting Down to Facts, 2007.
Do Non-School Resources Substitute for School Resources? A Review of the EvidenceGetting Down to Facts, 2007.
Curbing or Facilitating Inequality? Law, Collective Bargaining, and Teacher Assignment Among Schools in CaliforniaGetting Down to Facts, 2007.
Bringing the State and Locals Together: Developing Effective Data Systems in California School DistrictsGetting Down to Facts, 2007.
Charter Schools in California: A Review of their Autonomy and Resources Allocation PracticesGetting Down to Facts, 2007.
Have assessment-based accountability reforms influenced the career decisions of teachers? A report commissioned by the U.S. Congress as part of Title I, Part E, Section 1503 of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, 2007.
A federal foray into teacher certification: Assessing the Highly qualified teacher' provision of NCLBReport prepared for The Campaign for Educational Equity at Teachers College, Columbia University Symposium, Examining America's Commitment to Closing Achievement Gaps NCLB and Its Alternatives, 2006.
The why chromosome: How a teacher's gender affects boys and girlsEducation Next, 6(4), pp. 68-75. 2006.
Federal financial support for adequacy and equity in school financePrepared for the Rethinking Rodriguez Conference, University of California, Berkeley, 2006.
Public policy and teacher labor markets: What we know and why it mattersThe Education Policy Center at Michigan State University, 2004.
Have assessment-based school accountability reforms affected the career decisions of teachers? Proceedings of the Educational Testing Service Invitational Conference, Measurement and Research Issues in a New Accountability Era, 2004.
New lives for poor families: Mothers and young children move through welfare reformThe Growing Up in Poverty Wave 2 Findings: California, Connecticut, and Florida, 2002.
Do higher state test scores in Texas make for better high school outcomesConsortium for Policy Research in Education Research Report, 2001.
