Report | The Impact of the GE Foundation Developing Futures in Education Program on Mathematics Performance Trends in Four Districts

CPRE researchers present strong evidence that the program produced significant improvements in mathematics performance in each of the four districts.

Project | The Linking Study

How do elementary school teachers use data about their mathematics instruction in conjunction with assessment data to inform their teaching and improve their students’ learning?

Article | State Education Agencies' Acquisition and Use of Research Knowledge for School Improvement

Over the last two decades, state education agencies (SEAs) have been given considerable responsibilities for improving low-performing schools and for adopting research-based practices in doing so. Yet we know little about how and where these organizations search for, select, and use research and other kinds of evidence.

Policy Brief | Measuring School Capacity, Maximizing School Improvement

CPRE researchers define the four components of ‘school capacity’ in an effort to create a shared language amongst education researchers: Human Capital, Social Capital, Program Coherence, and Resources.

Project | Reading Recovery: Scaling Up What Works

The upcoming Year One Report in this five-year study of the i3 Scale-Up of Reading Recovery shows highly statistically significant positive effects on students’ reading and comprehension scores. These impacts are considerably larger than those typically produced by other educational interventions.

Project | Evaluation of the GE Foundation's Developing Futures Program

Since 2005, The GE Foundation has supported efforts in six U.S. school districts through its Developing Futures™ in Education program, a high-impact initiative created to improve academic achievement and better prepare students for college and careers. CPRE is conducting a mixed-methods evaluation of the program’s impacts.

Report | Building a Foundation for School Leadership

Learn how an intensive effort to influence and expand the leadership capacity of schools can have a positive impact on leadership practice, leadership team functioning, and support for instructional improvement.

Educational Leadership Conference | Lyon, France

Co-director Jonathan Supovitz recently led a group of ten Mid-Career Doctoral students to Lyon, France to share their expertise in distributed leadership and school improvement strategies.

Publication | Seven Trends: The Transformation of the Teaching Force

Has the elementary and secondary teaching force changed in recent years? And, if so, how? Discover what Ingersoll and Merrill mean by a grayer, greener, more diverse, and less stable teaching force.

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Listen to CPRE Researcher Richard Ingersoll discuss the changing face of the teaching force on Bloomberg EDU radio - September 21, 2012.

Richard Ingersoll discusses new trends in the teaching force at the 2012 Education Writers Association Conference.

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