Research and Policy Analyses
This study of OUSD's New Small Schools Initiative assesses how the new schools are performing, what factors influence their achievement, and recommends policy strategies that build on current successes.
This comprehensive project on teacher professional development identifies policies and practices states are using to effectively prepare and support teachers.
This project examines large-scale performance assessment in the United States and abroad, including technical advances, feasibility issues, and policy implications.
The Alliance for Excellent Education and SCOPE teamed up to look at ways other nations have enhanced teacher effectiveness and to see if the lessons learned could be applied in the U.S. context, producing a report and a webinar on their findings.
This project examines eight exemplary pre- and in-service program models that address key issues in developing strong leaders.
Project Dates:
January 2010-September 2010
Frank Adamson and Linda Darling-Hammond examine how and why well-qualified teachers are inequitably distributed to students in the United States.
This project investigates Milwaukee's unique reform approach that applies both an aggressive school choice plan and a managed instruction approach.
Project Dates:
January 2009-December 2011
This project investigates educational policies in Botswana and South Africa by measuring student achievement in 112 schools on either side of the countries' border.
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