Conditions for Student Success: The Cycle of Continuous Instructional Improvement
This paper explores how schools can seek “continuous improvement.”
Creating the Political Conditions for Major Changes in School Finance Policy
This paper asks whether significant changes in public education finance are politically feasible.
Learning Science Meets School Finance: The How People Learn Framework as a Tool for Resource Decisions
In this paper, Diana Sharp and John Bransford show how the learning sciences can be applied to school finance.
Improving Title I Funding Equity Across States, Districts, and Schools
This report demonstrates that there are many promising alternative ways to allocate and use funds under Title I, the federal government’s largest K-12 funding program.
School Finance Systems and Their Responsiveness to Performance Pressures: A Case Study of Texas
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 Texas.
Out of the Box: Fundamental Change in School Funding
How might money be used in a more productive system? This working paper imagines a public educational system in which it is possible to link benefits received with costs borne.
Inside Charter Schools: A Systematic Look at Our Nation’s Charter Schools
This is the introductory report from the “Inside Charter Schools” initiative, a multi-year, federally funded study of the people and work of charter schools.
Opening Doors: How Low-Income Parents Search for the Right School
Researchers with CRPE’s Doing School Choice Right initiative determine what drives the school-choice decisions made by 800 low- to moderate-income families in three cities.
Hopes, Fears, and Reality: A Balanced Look at American Charter Schools in 2006
This edition of Hopes, Fears, & Reality explores some of the most controversial issues facing the charter school movement and the implications of continued growth for leading players in the charter school debates.
Brief: Charter School Data: What States Collect, State Data, and Implications for Research
This brief summarizes which charter school data states collect and how the limitations of those data impact the quality of charter school research. The data in this brief were collected as part of the research for Hopes, Fears, & Reality: A Balanced Look at American Charter Schools in 2006