This paper investigates the effects of implementing CSR models on student achievement.
This collection encompasses much of CRPE’s foundational research, including school finance and portfolio strategy. While our current focus is in other areas of research, we believe that our past work is still highly relevant today. Further, should the field call for new explorations of these topics, we always leave open the possibility of reviving these research areas.
This paper investigates the effects of implementing CSR models on student achievement.
This working paper evaluates the effect of implementing one of three prominent Comprehensive School Reform (CSR) models on student achievement and discipline outcomes, using a matched sample of Florida model and non-model schools.
This report presents the results of an analysis of legal, regulatory, and policy barriers to high school redesign in California.
This paper details the portfolio management approach—a new vision for education reform that fosters innovation, adaptability, and performance.
This chapter of Hopes, Fears, & Reality: A Balanced Look at American Charter Schools in 2005 explores the details of how to compare charter school and traditional school funding.
Drawing on data from five large school districts, this report reveals that the nation’s main program for educating the disadvantaged, Title I, is hampered by loopholes that prevent it from fulfilling its mission.
This is the first in a series of working papers on ways people working for the disadvantaged might use evidence about within-district spending inequalities.
This brief summarizes the report Strengthening Title I To Help High-Poverty Schools: How Title I Funds Fit Into District Allocation which argues that the nation’s main program for educating the disadvantaged, Title I, is hampered...
This working paper presents a principal-agent model in the context of public schools to help explain the factors that affect district decisions about merit pay.
This brief examines small high school costs in Denver and Seattle, analyzing each layer of district expenditures in order to get a better look at the price tag for small schools in comparison to others....
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