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Melissa Bowen

Policy & Research Manager, Equity in Education Center

Background

Melissa is a Policy & Research Manager for the Equity in Education Alliance. She was formerly a research analyst at CRPE.

Publications

Melissa Bowen

  • Research Reports    

BRIEF – Managing Talent for School Coherence: Learning from Charter Management Organizations

Michael DeArmond, Betheny Gross, Melissa Bowen, Allison Demeritt, Robin Lake

This brief summarizes a larger report that looks at how CMOs manage teacher talent.

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Managing Talent for School Coherence: Learning from Charter Management Organizations

Michael DeArmond, Betheny Gross, Melissa Bowen, Allison Demeritt, Robin Lake

This report examines how charter management organizations recruit, hire, and develop teachers, and how they manage teacher performance.

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Learning from Charter School Management Organizations: Strategies for Student Behavior and Teacher Coaching

Robin Lake, Melissa Bowen, Allison Demeritt, Moira McCullough, Joshua Haimson

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.

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Tinkering Toward Transformation: A Look at Federal School Improvement Grant Implementation

Sarah Yatsko, Robin Lake, Elizabeth Cooley Nelson, Melissa Bowen

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.

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Ch. 1 – Assessing the Charter School Landscape (HFR ’11)

Betheny Gross, Melissa Bowen

This chapter offers an overview of emerging trends in the charter school landscape.

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Charter-School Management Organizations: Diverse Strategies and Diverse Student Impacts

Joshua Furgeson, Brian Gill, Joshua Haimson, Moira McCullough, Ira Nichols-Barrer

This report from the National Study of CMO Effectiveness provides key findings from the study on CMO practices, impacts, and the relationships between them.

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Beating the Odds: How State Education Agencies Can Better Support School Turnarounds

Sarah Yatsko, Melissa Bowen

This essay was written for the PIE Network 5th Annual Policy Summit, September 2011. The authors argue that states can maximize their support for turnaround work by pushing for bold, workable plans, providing technical assistance, helping districts find and train leaders, and offering political cover for tough decisions.

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BRIEF – Charter Management Organizations: Innovations, Opportunities, and Challenges

Robin Lake, Melissa Bowen, Allison Demeritt, Paul Hill

This brief summarizes the major findings from the National Study of Charter Management Organization (CMO) Effectiveness: Report on Interim Findings.

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The National Study of Charter Management Organization (CMO) Effectiveness: Report on Interim Findings

Robin Lake, Melissa Bowen, Allison Demeritt, Paul Hill

This interim report from the National Study of CMO Effectiveness explores how CMOs vary according to their theories of action, structural organization, and growth strategies and delves into the ongoing organizational and financial challenges that CMOs face.

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Performance Pressure and Resource Allocation in Ohio

Shelley De Wys, Melissa Bowen, Allison Demeritt

New accountability systems require that states and districts accomplish something never accomplished before—ensuring that all students meet state standards. This report explores how these expectations have altered resource decisions in Ohio.

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Performance Pressure and Resource Allocation in Washington State

Shelley De Wys, Melissa Bowen, Allison Demeritt

New accountability systems require that states and districts accomplish something never accomplished before—ensuring that all students meet state standards. This report explores how these expectations have altered resource decisions in Washington State.

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