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Related UI Researchers Publications on Education | Viewing 1-5 of 316. Most recent posts listed first. | Next Page >> | Accountability Policies: Implications for School and Classroom Practices (Research Report)This paper reviews the research literature associated with the implications of performance-based accountability policies for school and teacher behaviors. It examines what is known about both possibly productive responses, such as focused effort on valued subjects, and non-productive responses, such as teaching to the test, induced by performance-based accountability systems. Posted to Web: October 21, 2008 | Publication Date: October 16, 2008 | Quality Schools, Healthy Neighborhoods, and the Future of DC (Policy Report)Over the last decade, the District of Columbia implemented bold steps to improve its public schools while also experiencing population growth, property value increases, and strong city fiscal health. But its child population (0-17 years old) remained essentially the same and a dwindling share of the city's children was attending the public schools.
This policy report summarizes analysis from the Quality Schools and Healthy Neighborhoods: Research Report that describes the relationships between education, housing, and neighborhood development in the District, as well as provides policy recommendations for how to make the District of Columbia a more family-friendly city. Posted to Web: October 09, 2008 | Publication Date: October 09, 2008 | Quality Schools and Healthy Neighborhoods: A Research Report (Research Report)Over the last decade, the District of Columbia implemented bold steps to improve its public schools while also experiencing population growth, property value increases, and strong city fiscal health. But its child population (0-17 years old) remained essentially the same and a dwindling share of the city’s children was attending the public schools.
This research report describes in-depth the relationships between education, housing, and neighborhood development in the District of Columbia, and it is the basis for the subsequent policy research report, Quality Schools, Healthy Neighborhoods, and the Future of DC, which outlines recommended policies to make the District a more family-friendly city. Posted to Web: October 09, 2008 | Publication Date: September 01, 2008 | Beyond Ideology, Politics, and Guesswork: The Case for Evidence-Based Policy (revised 2008) (Research Report)U.S. public policy has increasingly been conceived, debated, and evaluated through the lenses of politics and ideology. The fundamental question--Will the policy work?--too often gets short shrift or even ignored. A remedy is evidence-based policy -- a rigorous approach that draws on careful data collection, experimentation, and both quantitative and qualitative analysis to determine what the problem is, which ways it can be addressed, and the probable impacts of each of these ways. Examples of how evidence informs good policy and lack of evidence can invite bad include health insurance coverage, welfare reform, sentencing policy, and redress for housing discrimination. Posted to Web: August 11, 2008 | Publication Date: August 11, 2008 | Teacher Salary Bonuses in North Carolina (CALDER Working Paper)Since the 1996/97 school year, North Carolina has awarded bonuses of up to $1,500 to teachers in schools that exhibit test score gains above certain thresholds. This article reviews the details of the bonus program, describes patterns of differences between schools that qualify for bonuses of differing amounts, and presents basic data to address the question of whether the bonus program has improved student achievement, or has led to a narrowing of racial or socioeconomic achievement gaps. There is some evidence to suggest an improvement in overall test scores, particularly in math, but less evidence to suggest that achievement gaps have narrowed. Posted to Web: July 29, 2008 | Publication Date: February 01, 2008 |
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