Better Schools Through Better Politics: The Human Side of Portfolio School District Reform
This working paper series examines the politics of portfolio school district reform, with a primary focus on the issues surrounding high school closures.
Learning from Charter School Management Organizations: Strategies for Student Behavior and Teacher Coaching
This is the final report from The National Study of CMO Effectiveness, a four-year study designed to assess the impact of CMOs on student achievement and identify CMO structures and practices that are most effective in raising achievement.
Tinkering Toward Transformation: A Look at Federal School Improvement Grant Implementation
In 2009, the federal government committed over $3 billion to help states and districts turn around their worst-performing schools. This report looks at the results of a field study of the first-year implementation of those grants in Washington State, where researchers found that districts and schools are using the grants for only marginal change.
