Products CPRE Publications Policy Briefs 
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Featured Policy Briefs
A Comparative Study of Teacher Preparation and Qualifications in Six Nations
(RIchard M. Ingersoll, February 2007)
Misdiagnosing the Teacher Quality Problem
(Richard M. Ingersoll, February 2007)
Redesigning School Finance Systems: Lessons from CPRE Research
(Allan Odden, February 2007)
Teacher Performance Pay: Synthesis of Plans, Research, and Guidelines for Practice
(Herbert Heneman III, Anthony Milanowski, and Steven Kimball, February 2007)
Teaching Matters: How State and Local Policymakers Can Improve the Quality of Teachers and Teaching
(Thomas B. Corcoran, February 2007)
CPRE Policy Briefs are sorted alphabetically by title.
Assessment and Accountability Across the 50 States
(Margaret Goertz and Mark Duffy, May 2001)
Bridging the K-12/Postsecondary Divide With a Coherent K-16 System
(June 2000)
Building Capacity for Education Reform
(Margaret Goertz, Robert Floden, and Jennifer O'Day, December 1995)
The Bumpy Road to Education Reform
(Margaret Goertz, Robert Floden, and Jennifer O'Day, June 1996)
Challenges in Systemic Education Reform
(Susan Fuhrman, September 1994)
A Comparative Study of Teacher Preparation and Qualifications in Six Nations
(Richard M. Ingersoll, February 2007)
Contracting as a Mechanism for Managing Education Services
(Jane Hannaway, November 1999)
Creating School Finance Policies That Facilitate New Goals
(Allan Odden, September 1998)
A Decade of Charter Schools: From Theory to Practice
(Katrina Bulkley and Jennifer Fisler, April 2002)
Decentralization and Policy Design
(May 1990)
Developing Communities of Instructional Practice: Lessons from Cincinnati and Philadelphia
(Jonathan A. Supovitz and Jolley Bruce Christman of Research for Action, November 2003)
Developing Content Standards: Creating a Process for Change
(October 1993)
A Different Approach to Solving the Teacher Shortage Problem
(Richard Ingersoll, January 2001, published by the Center for the Study of Teaching and Policy)
The District Role in Building Capacity: Four Strategies
(Diane Massell, September 2000)
Enhancing Teacher Quality Through Knowledge- and Skills-based Pay
(Allan Odden, Carolyn Kelley, Herbert Heneman, and Anthony Milanowski, November 2001)
Equality in Education: Progress, Problems and Possibilities
(June 1991)
First Lessons: Charter Schools as Learning Communities
(Priscilla Wohlstetter and Noelle Griffin, September 1997)
From Research to Practice and Back Again: TIMSS as a Tool for Educational Improvement
(Marlies Dunson, April 2000)
Graduating From High School: New Standards in the States
(April 1989)
Helping Teachers Teach Well: Transforming Professional Development
(Tom Corcoran, June 1995)
Holding High Hopes: How High Schools Respond to State Accountability Policies (Full report available online by clicking here)
(Margaret E. Goertz and Diane Massell, January 2005)
Including School Finance in Systemic Reform Strategies: A Commentary
(Allan Odden, May 1994)
Misdiagnosing the Teacher Quality Problem
(Richard M. Ingersoll, February 2007)
Keeping College Affordable: A Proposal from Two Economists
(May 1992)
The Motivational Effects of School-based Performance Awards
(Carolyn Kelley, Allan Odden, Anthony Milanowski, and Herbert Heneman, February 2000)
The New Accountability
(Susan Fuhrman, January 1999)
New Fiscal Realities in Higher Education
(CPRE, October 1992)
The Organization of Schools as an Overlooked Source of Underqualified Teaching
(Richard Ingersoll, December 2002, published by the Center for the Study of Teaching and Policy)
Persistence and Change: Standards-based Systemic Reform in Nine States
(Diane Massell, Michael Kirst, and Margaret Hoppe, March 1997)
Politics and Systemic Education Reform
(Susan Fuhrman, April 1994)
Programs for Young Children: State Policy Options
(October 1987)
Putting the Pieces Together: Systemic School Reform
(April 1991)
Redesigning Accountability Systems for Education
(Susan Fuhrman, September 2003)
Redesigning School Finance Systems: Lessons from CPRE Research
(Allan Odden, February 2007)
Reform of High School Mathematics and Science and Opportunity to Learn
(Andrew Porter and associates, September 1994)
Reforming Science, Mathematics, and Technology Education: NSF's State Systemic Initiatives
(May 1994)
Reinventing Teacher Compensation Systems
(Carolyn Kelley and Allan Odden, September 1995)
Repeating Grades in School: Current Practice and Research Evidence
(January 1990)
Scaling Up Instructional Improvement Through Teacher Professional Development: Insights From the Local Systemic Change Initiative
(Iris R. Weiss and Joan D. Pasley, March 2006)
This brief summarizes findings from the Horizon Research, Inc. evaluation of the Local Systemic Change Initiative, funded by the National Science Foundation. For more information on the Initiative, visit http://www.pdmathsci.net/.
School-based Management: Promise and Process
(Priscilla Wohlstetter and Susan Albers Mohrman, November 1994)
School-based Management: Strategies for Success
(January 1993)
School Finance Reform: The Role of the Courts
(February 1993)
Standards-Based Teacher Evaluation as a Foundation for Knowledge- and Skill-Based Pay
(Herbert G. Heneman III, Anthony Milanowski, Steven M. Kimball, and Allan Odden, May 2006)
Standards Deviation: How Schools Misunderstand Education Policy
(James P. Spillane, June 2005)
State Education Reform in the 1980s
(November 1989)
State Policy and Classroom Performance: Mathematics Reform in California
(David Cohen and Heather Hill, January 1998)
State Strategies for Building Capacity: Addressing the Needs of Standards-based Reform
(Diane Massell, July 1998)
States and Districts and Comprehensive School Reform
(May 1998)
Strategic Leadership for Education Reform: Lessons From the Statewide Systemic Initiatives Program
(The study was conducted by Daniel J. Heck and Iris Weiss of Horizon Research, Inc., January 2005)
Teacher Performance Pay: Synthesis of Plans, Research, and Guidelines for Practice
(Herbert Heneman III, Anthony Milanowski, and Steven Kimball, February 2007)
Teachers' Professional Development and Education Reform
(October 1993)
Teaching Matters: How State and Local Policymakers Can Improve the Quality of Teachers and Teaching
(Thomas B. Corcoran, February 2007)
Ten Lessons About Regulation and Schooling
(June 1992)
Tracking Student Achievement in Science and Math: The Promise of State Assessment Programs
(June 1995)
Upgrading High School Math: A Look at Three Transition Courses
(Paula White, Andrew Porter, Adam Gamoran, and John Smithson, September 1995)
The Use of Research Evidence in Instructional Improvement
(Tom Corcoran, November 2003)
Using TIMSS to Inform Policy and Practice at the Local Level
(Deborah Nelson, May 2002)
What Explains Differences in International Performance? TIMSS Researchers Continue to Look for Answers
(Deborah Nelson, September 2003).
