Research Reports

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Featured Research Reports

Learning Trajectories in Mathematics: A Foundation for Standards, Curriculum, Assessment, and Instruction (Phil Daro, Frederic A. Mosher, and Tom Corcoran; with Jeffrey Barrett, Michael Battista, Douglas Clements, Jere Confrey, Vinci Daro, Alan Maloney, Wakasa Nagakura, Marge Petit, and Julie Sarama) (RR-68, 2011)

School Perspectives on Collaborative Inquiry: Lessons Learned from New York City, 2009-2010. (Marian Robinson, RR-67, 2010).

From Testing to Teaching: The Use of Interim Assessments in Classroom Instruction (Margaret E. Goertz, Leslie Nabors Oláh, and Matthew Riggan, RR-65, 2009)

Learning Progressions in Science: An Evidence-based Approach to Reform (Tom Corcoran, Frederic Mosher, Aaron Rogat, RR-63, 2009)

The Mathematics and Science Teacher Shortage: Fact and Myth (Richard Ingersoll, David Perda, RR-62, 2009)

Learning About Assessment: An Evaluation of a Ten-State Effort to Build Assessment Capacity in High Schools (Elliot Weinbaum, RR-61, 2009) 

A Comparative Study of Teacher Preparation and Qualification in Six Nations
(Edited by Richard M. Ingersoll, 2007, No. RR-57)

Achieving Educational Adequacy through School Finance Reform
(Andrew Reschovsky and Jennifer Imazeki, October 2000, No. RR-045)

Accelerated Schools for At-Risk Students
(Henry M. Levin, September 1988, No. RR-010)

The Accountability System: Defining Responsibility for Student Achievement
(Theresa Luhm, Ellen Foley, and Tom Corcoran, 1998)

America's Choice Comprehensive School Reform Design: First-Year Implementation Evaluation Summary
(Tom Corcoran, Margaret Hoppe, Theresa Luhm, and Jonathan A. Supovitz, February 2000)

An Analysis of the Effect of Children Achieving on Student Achievement in Philadelphia Elementary Schools
(Erin Tighe, Aubrey Wang, and Ellen Foley, February 2002)

Assessment and Accountability Systems in the 50 States: 1999-2000
(Margaret E. Goertz and Mark C. Duffy with Kerstin Carlson Le Floch, March 2001, No. RR-046)

The Boston Compact: A Teaching Case
(Eleanor Farrar, July 1988, No. TC-001)

Building School Capacity for Effective Teacher Empowerment: Applications to Elementary Schools with At-Risk Students
(Henry M. Levin, September 1991, No. RR-019)

Changes in High School Course-taking 1982-1988: A Study of Transcript Data from Selected Schools and States
(William H. Clune, Paula A. White, Shirley Sun, and Janice H. Patterson, December 1991, No. RR-022)

Changes in School Mathematics: Curricular Changes, Instructional Changes, and Indicators of Change
(Thomas A. Romberg, September 1988, No. RR-007)

Changing District Culture and Capacity: The Impact of the Merck Institute for Science Education Partnership
(Tom Corcoran and Nancy Lawrence, November 2003, No. RR-054)

Children Achieving: Philadelphia's Education Reform, A Second-year Evaluation, Executive Summary
(1998)

Civic Engagement and Urban School Improvement: Hard-to-Learn Lessons from Philadelphia
(Jolley Bruce Christman and Amy Rhodes, June 2002)

Clients, Consumers, or Collaborators? Parents and their Roles in School Reform During Children Achieving, 1995-2000
(Eva Gold, Amy Rhodes, Shirley Brown, Susan Lytle, and Diane Waff, August 2001)

Community School District 4, New York City: A Case of Choice
(Richard F. Elmore, December 1990, No. TC-002)

Contradictions and Control in Systemic Reform: The Ascendancy of the Central Office in Philadelphia Schools
(Ellen Foley, August 2001)

Course-taking Patterns in the 1980s
(Margaret E. Goertz, September 1989, No. RR-013)

Curricular Change in Dade County 1982-83 to 1986-87: A Replication of the PACE Study
(Thomas L. Hanson, September 1989, No. RR-014)

Dashboard Lights: Monitoring Implementation of District Instructional Reform Strategies
(Jonathan A. Supovitz and John Weathers, December 2004)

Defining, Developing, and Using Curriculum Indicators
(Andrew Porter and John Smithson, December 2001, No. RR-048)

Diversity Amidst Standardization: State Differential Treatment of Districts
(Susan H. Fuhrman with Patti Fry, December 1989, No. RR-016)

Do Curriculum-based External Exit Exams Enhance Student Achievement?
(John Bishop, April 1998, No. RR-040)

Do Higher State Test Scores in Texas Make for Better High School Outcomes?
(Martin Carnoy, Susanna Loeb, and Tiffany Smith, November 2001, No. RR-047)

Education Reform from 1983 to 1990: State Action and Response
(William A. Firestone, Sheila Rosenblum, Beth D. Bader, and Diane Massell, December 1991, No. RR-021)

Educational Clinics in Washington State: A Case of Choice
(Richard F. Elmore, December 1990, No. TC-003)

The Effects of High School Organization on Dropping Out: An Exploratory Investigation
(Anthony S. Bryk and Yeow Meng Thum, February 1989, No. RR-012)

External Support to Schools on Probation: Getting a Leg Up?
(Kara Finnigan and Jennifer O'Day with David Wakelyn, July 2003, published with the Consortium on Chicago School Research)

The Federal Role in Defining "Adequate Yearly Progress:" The Flexibility/Accountability Trade-off
(Margaret E. Goertz, September 2001)

A Formative Study of the Implementation of the Inquiry Team Process in New York City Public Schools: 2007-08 Findings
(Marian Robinson, Patricia, Kannapel, Joan Gujarati, Hakim Williams, and Andrea Oettinger, 2008)

From Testing to Teaching: The Use of Interim Assessments in Classroom Instruction (Margaret E. Goertz, Leslie Nabors Oláh, and Matthew Riggan, RR#65, 2009)

Funding for Schools and Universities: Improving Productivity and Equity
(Allan Odden and William Massy, November 1992, No. RR-026)

Getting It Right: The MISE Approach to Professional Development
(Tom Corcoran, Siobhan McVay, and Kate Riordan, December 2003, No. RR-055)

Guidance for School Improvement in a Decentralizing System: How Much, What Kind, and From Where?
(Jolley Bruce Christman, 1998)

The Heart of the Matter: The Coaching Model in America's Choice Schools
(Susan M. Poglinco, Amy J. Bach, Kate Hovde, Sheila Rosenblum, Marisa Saunders, and Jonathan A. Supovitz, May 2003)

Higher Education Finance Issues in the Early 1990s
(Arthur M. Hauptman, February 1993, No. RR-027)

High Hopes: How High Schools Respond to State Accountability Policies
(Betheny Gross and Margaret Goertz, Eds. June 2005, No. RR-056)

The Implementation and Effects of High School Graduation Requirements: First Steps Toward Curricular Reform
(William H. Clune with Paula White and Janice Patterson, February 1989, No. RR-011)

Impact of America's Choice on Student Performance in Duval County, Florida
(Jonathan A. Supovitz, Brooke Snyder Taylor, and Henry May, October 2002)

The Impact of America’s Choice on Writing Performance in Georgia: First-Year Results
(Henry May, Jonathan A. Supovitz, and Joy Lesnick, July 2004)

The Impact of Standards-based Reform in Duval County, Florida: 1999-2002
(Jonathan A. Supovitz and Brooke Snyder Taylor, May 2003)

Implementation of the America's Choice Literacy Workshops
(Jonathan A. Supovitz, Susan M. Poglinco, and Amy Bach, April 2002)

Improving Education with Locally Developed Indicators
(Jane L. David, October 1987, No. RR-004)

Increasing Educational Productivity Through Improving the Science Curriculum
(Senta A. Raizen, July 1988, No. RR-006)

Indicators of Reading Education
(John T. Guthrie, October 1987, No. RR-005)

The Inquiry Based Science and Technology Education Program (IN-STEP): The Evaluation of the First Year (Tom Corcoran, May 2008)

Instruction, Capacity, and Improvement
(David K. Cohen and Deborah Loewenberg Ball, June 1999, No. RR-043)

Instructional Leadership in a Standards-based Reform
(Jonathan A. Supovitz and Susan M. Poglinco, December 2001)

Instructional Policy and Classroom Performance: The Mathematics Reform in California
(David K. Cohen and Heather C. Hill, February 1998, No. RR-039)

Issues and Strategies in Systemic Reform
(Susan H. Fuhrman and Diane Massell, November 1992, No. RR-025)

Is There Really a Teacher Shortage?
(Richard M. Ingersoll, September 2003, published with the Center for the Study of Teaching and Policy)

Kentucky's Program for Educationally Deficient School Districts: A Case Study
(Patricia Fry, Susan H. Fuhrman, and Richard F. Elmore, April 1992,
No. TC-005)

Learning Progressions in Science: An Evidence-based Approach to Reform (Tom Corcoran, Frederic Mosher, Aaron Rogat, RR-63, 2009)

The Limits and Contradictions of Sytemic Reform: The Philadelphia Story
(Tom Corcoran and Jolley Bruce Christman, November 2002)

A Longitudinal Study of the Impact of America's Choice on Student Performance in Rochester, New York, 1998-2003
(Henry May, Jonathan A. Supovitz, and David Perda, July 2004)

Making Sense of Standards: Implementation Issues and the Impact on Teaching Practice
(Elaine Simon, Ellen Foley, and Claire Passantino, 1998)

The Mathematics and Science Teacher Shortage: Fact and Myth
(Richard Ingersoll, David Perda, RR-62, 2009)

Mapping a Course for Improved Student Learning: How Innovative Schools Systematically Use Student Performance Data to Guide Improvement
(Jonathan A. Supovitz and Valerie Klein, November 2003)

Mayoral Influence, New Regimes, and Public School Governance
(Michael Kirst, May 2002)

Measuring Classroom Practice: Lessons Learned from Efforts to Describe the Enacted Curriculum -- The Reform Up Close Study
(John L. Smithson and Andrew C. Porter, October 1994, No. RR-031)

The Merck Institute for Science Education: A Successful Intermediary for Education Reform
(Tom Corcoran, March 2003, RR-052)

Merit Aid: Students, Institutions, and Society
(Michael S. McPherson and Morton Owen Schapiro, August 1994, No. RR-030)

The Minnesota Postsecondary Options Law: A Case of Choice
(Doug A. Archbald, December 1990, No. TC-004)

Moving Mountains: Successes and Challenges of the America's Choice Comprehensive School Reform Design
(Jonathan A. Supovitz, Susan M. Poglinco, and Brooke A. Snyder, March 2001)

On the Design and Purposes of State Curriculum Guides: A Comparison of Mathematics and Social Studies Guides from Four States
(Doug A. Archbald, April 1994, No. RR-029)

Opportunity to Learn: Instructional Practices in Eighth-Grade Mathematics
(Margaret E. Goertz, October 1994, No. RR-032)

The Outlook for School Revenue in the Next Five Years
(Steven D. Gold, May 1995, No. RR-034)

Out-of-Field Teaching and the Limits of Teacher Policy
(Richard M. Ingersoll, September 2003, published with the Center for the Study of Teaching and Policy)

Out-of-Field Teaching, Educational Inequality, and the Organization of Schools: An Exploratory Analysis
(Richard Ingersoll, January 2002, published by the Center for the Study of Teaching and Policy)

Persistence and Change: Standards-based Reform in Nine States
(Diane Massell, Michael Kirst, and Margaret Hoppe, April 1997, No. RR-037)

Powerful Ideas, Modest Gains: Five Years of Systemic Reform in Philadelphia Middle Schools
(Jolley Bruce Christman, December 2001)

The Progress of Reform: An Appraisal of State Education Initiatives
(William A. Firestone, Susan H. Fuhrman, and Michael W. Kirst, October 1989, No. RR-014)

Public Policy and School Reform: A Research Summary
(March 1996, No. RR-036)

A Randomized Evaluation of Ohio's Personalized Assessment Reporting System (PARS)
(Henry May and Marian Robinson, December 2007)

Recruiting and Retaining Teachers: Keys to Improving the Philadelphia Public Schools
(Susan Watson, May 2001)

The Relationship Between Teacher Implementation of America's Choice and Student Learning in Plainfield, New Jersey
(Jonathan A. Supovitz and Henry May, January 2003)

Resource Materials on School-based Management
(Paula A. White, September 1988, No. RR-009)

Restructuring Student Support Services: Redefining the Role of the School District
(Ellen Foley, 1998)

Rethinking the Allocation of Teaching Resources: Some Lessons from High Performing Schools
(Karen Hawley Miles and Linda Darling-Hammond, November 1997, No. RR-038)

A Review of the Research on Charter Schools
(Katrina Bulkley and Jennifer Fisler, June 2002)

Ruling Out Rules: The Evolution of Deregulation in Education Policy
(Susan H. Fuhrman and Richard F. Elmore, March 1995, No. RR-033)

School-based Management: Institutional Variation, Implementation and Issues for Further Research
(William H. Clune and Paula A. White, September 1988, No. RR-008)

School-based Performance Award Programs, Teacher Motivation, and School Performance: Findings from a Study of Three Programs
(Carolyn Kelley, Herbert Heneman, and Anthony Milanowski, April 2000, No. RR-044)

School District Restructuring in Santa Fe, New Mexico
(Martin Carnoy and Jean MacDonell, December 1989, No. RR-017)

School Leadership and Reform: Case Studies of Philadelphia Principals
(Mary Helen Spiri, May 2001)

Schools for the 21st Century Program in Washington State: A Case Study
(Patricia Fry, Susan H. Fuhrman, and Richard F. Elmore, April 1992, No. TC-006)

South Carolina's Flexibility through Deregulation Program: A Case Study
(Patricia Fry, Susan H. Fuhrman, and Richard F. Elmore, April 1992, No. TC-007)

Standardizing School Dropout Measures
(Patricia A. Williams, October 1987, No. RR-003)

State Strategies for Building Capacity in Education: Progress and Continuing Challenges
(Diane Massell, October 1998, No. RR-041)

State Takeover of a Local School District in New Jersey: A Case Study
(Margaret Dolan, April 1992, No. TC-008)

Studies of Education Reform: Systemic Reform, Volume I: Findings and Conclusions
(Margaret E. Goertz, Robert E. Floden, and Jennifer O'Day, July 1995, No. RR-035A)

Studies of Education Reform: Systemic Reform, Volume II: Case Studies
(Margaret E. Goertz, Robert E. Floden, and Jennifer O'Day, July 1995, No. RR-035B)

Studies of Education Reform: Systemic Reform, Volume III: Technical Appendix, Research Design and Methodology
(Margaret E. Goertz, Robert E. Floden, and Jennifer O'Day, July 1995, No. RR-035C)

Systemic Reform in Practice: Merck Institute for Science Education
(CPRE, March 2003)

Takeover and Deregulation: Working Models of New State and Local Regulatory Relationships
(Susan H. Fuhrman and Richard F. Elmore, April 1992, No. RR-024)

Teacher Empowerment and Professional Knowledge
(Gary Lichtenstein, Milbrey McLaughlin, and Jennifer Knudsen, September 1991, No. RR-020)

Teacher Leadership as a Strategy for Instructional Improvement: The Case of the Merck Institute for Science Education
(Kate Riordan, March 2003, RR-052)

Teacher and Coach Implementation of Writers Workshop in America's Choice Schools, 2001 and 2002
(Amy J. Bach and Jonathan A. Supovitz, November 2003)

Teacher Turnover, Teacher Shortages, and the Organization of Schools
(Richard Ingersoll, January 2001, published by the Center for the Study of Teaching and Policy)

Teaching for High Standards: What Policymakers Need to Know and Be Able to Do
(Linda Darling-Hammond and Deborah Loewenberg Ball, November 1998, No. JRE-04)

Ten Years of State Education Reform, 1983 - 1993: Overview with Four Case Studies
(Diane Massell and Susan Fuhrman with Michael Kirst, Allan Odden, Priscilla Wohlstetter, Rebecca Carver, and Gary Yee, January 1994, No. RR-028)

The Varieties of Knowledge and Skill-based Pay Design: A Comparison of Seven New Pay Systems for K-12 Teachers
(Anthony Milanowski, October 2002)

What Large-scale, Survey Research Tells Us About Teacher Effects on Student Achievement: Insights from the Prospects Study of Elementary Schools
(Brian Rowan, Richard Correnti, and Robert J. Miller, November 2002)

When Accountability Knocks, Will Anyone Answer?
(Charles Abelmann and Richard Elmore, with Johanna Even, Susan Kenyon, and Joanne Marshall, March 1999, No. RR-042)

Working Models of Choice in Public Education
(Richard F. Elmore, December 1990, No. RR-018)

Young Children Face the States: Issues and Options for Early Childhood Programs
(W. Norton Grubb, May 1987, No. RR-001)