Policy Bulletins & Occasional Papers

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The Challenge of School Variability: Improving Instruction in New York City's Community District #2
(Richard Elmore and Deanna Burney, May 1998)

Changing Teaching Practice and Improving Student Performance: The Role of Professional Development
(Tom Corcoran, August 1997)

Creating and Sustaining Learning Communities: Early Lessons from Charter Schools
(Priscilla Wohlstetter and Noelle Griffin, February 1998, No. OP-03)

Curriculum-based External Exit Exam Systems
(John Bishop, January 1999)

District Leaders' Perceptions of Teacher Learning  
(James Spillane, February 2000, No. OP-05)

High School and the 3Rs: Students' Perspectives on "Good Work"
(Matthew Goldwasser and Amy Bach, 2007, OP-06)

Improving Instruction through Professional Development in New York City's Community District #2
(Richard Elmore and Deanna Burney, May 1998)

Improving State School Finance Systems: New Realities Create Need to Re-Engineer School Finance Structures
(Allan Odden, February 1999, No. OP-04)

Looking at Local Districts' Capacity for Ambitious Reform
(James Spillane and Charles Thompson, May 1998)

Rethinking School Budgets to Support Whole-school Reform
(Allan Odden, May 1998)

Rethinking the Allocation of Teaching Resources
(Linda Darling-Hammond and Karen Hawley Miles, May 1998)

School Choice Legislation: A Survey of the States
(Richard Fossey, May 1992, No. OP-01)

School-Linked Services for At-risk Youth
(Carolyn Kelley, October 1995, No. OP-02)

U.S. Department of Education Regional Forum on Turning Around Low-performing Schools: Implications for Policy
(CPRE, March 2001)

What Can Policymakers Do to Support Teaching to High Standards?
(Linda Darling-Hammond and Deborah Loewenberg Ball, January 1999)