Projects
This project examines eight exemplary pre- and in-service program models that address key issues in developing strong leaders.
This comprehensive project on teacher professional development identifies policies and practices states are using to effectively prepare and support teachers.
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.
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 large-scale performance assessment in the United States and abroad, including technical advances, feasibility issues, and policy implications.
This project examines how high achieving nations around the world have steeply improved student achievement and equity and to identify how those approaches can be replicated in the United States.
This project documents how the success of some California schools in closing the achievement gap can inform state policy.
In 2004, SCOPE researchers and the Austin Independent School District joined together to redesign the district's 11 comprehensive high schools.
This project supported multiple research efforts identifying and supporting equitable schools and examining teacher effectiveness and desegregation.
Prudence Carter and Kevin Welner brought together a team of experts to examine the causes of and remedies to the inequality of learning opportunities in America's schools.