This paper describes research designed to shed light on how teachers feel about different pay and incentive reforms.
The world is changing. It is long past time for public education to change as well.
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This paper describes research designed to shed light on how teachers feel about different pay and incentive reforms.
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).
This paper is a companion piece to the District Resource Allocation Modeler (DREAM) tool developed by Education Resource Strategies.
In this working paper, Michael Kirst suggests that a productive education system would focus relatively greater resources on out-of-school interventions, especially for the most disadvantaged children. He argues that such interventions could help teachers and...
This study examines resource allocation patterns across elementary schools and how these patterns differ depending, in part, on various levels of autonomy over resources at the school level.
This report reviews the available data to describe the current corps of charter school leaders: how they are prepared, how they experience their work, and the institutional strategies in place to sustain and transition leadership....
The report examines lessons from New York’s experience with charter caps politics and provides policy considerations relevant to the growing number of states in which charter schools are reaching their legislated limit.
When school boards enter contracts with teachers unions, they determine the use of nearly half of all the funds available to public education. In this paper Julia Koppich looks at an important source of resource...
This brief begins with a look at the main problems faced by organizations attempting to replicate charter schools at scale, followed by a summary of lessons from the for-profit and nonprofit sectors about the process...
This paper explores ways districts can reduce the costs (in terms of lost school productivity and lost training investments) of teacher turnover.
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