Quantity Counts: The Growth of Charter School Management Organizations
This report analyzes why replicating successful charter schools has been tougher and more costly than expected for both for-profit and nonprofit charter management organizations (EMOs and CMOs).
Teacher Labor Markets and the Perils of Using Hedonics to Estimate Compensating Differentials in the Public Sector
Policymakers and researchers alike have expressed concern about a teacher quality gap between schools with affluent student populations and the more disadvantaged ones. This study uses teacher and school-level data from the NCES Schools and Staffing Survey combined with census-level information about community characteristics to build hedonic wage models for both public and private schools.
Teacher Attitudes About Compensation Reform: Implications for Reform Implementation
This paper describes research designed to shed light on how teachers feel about different pay and incentive reforms.
Difficulties of Estimating the Cost of Achieving Education Standards
This paper shows that none of the available methods for estimating what it would cost to reach high standards for all children is adequate to the task.
