BETHESDA, MD — Education Week’s Quality Counts continues the cradle-to-career state-by-state framework launched in last year’s report. This perspective emphasizes the connections between K-12 education and other systems with which it intersects.
WASHINGTON, DC — Nearly 50 million students are heading off to approximately 97,000 public schools. Before the school year is out, an estimated $489 billion will be spent related to their education, with an average of $9,969 to be spent per pupil for fall enrollment.
RALEIGH — Wayward legislators, school system officials, and public school advocacy groups, in particular, say that an increase in the attendance age would compel students to stay in school. Yet this notion is not informed by research that shows otherwise.
SEATTLE, WA — The charter school movement entered a new phase of development recently, with many charter school funders and advocates pushing for a dramatic increase in the number of high-quality charter schools. To succeed, charters must find the right formula.
NEW YORK, NY — The following report looks at the policy, political, and legal barriers that may limit the expansion of large-scale voucher programs. It concludes by suggesting that the movement may be offensive to the middleclass and suburban voters.
HILLSBOROUGH — A group of expert teachers from across the country is calling for radical changes in the way teachers have traditionally been compensated, saying teachers are ready for performance-pay that truly advances student achievement.
CAMBRIDGE, MA — The incentives and outcomes generated by public school choice depend to a large degree on parents' choice behavior. There is growing empirical evidence that low-income parents place lower weights on academics when choosing schools. Why?
CAMBRIDGE, MA — Several recent education reform measures, including NCLB, couple school choice with accountability measures to allow for choice. We use the introduction of NCLB in CMS to determine if the choice component influenced school choice.
NEW YORK, NY — Education policy discussions often assume that public school teachers are poorly paid. Typically absent in these discussions is any reference to systematic data on how they are actually paid, especially relative to other occupations.
DENVER, CO — The Education Commission of the States (ECS) has released the first stage of a new online tool designed to help policymakers find education research. The initial launch of the database addresses the problem of high school education.
WASHINGTON, DC — Efforts to recruit and retain high-performing teachers are expensive. As the percentage of funding for entitlements grows, it's unlikely that larger shares of revenue will be dedicated to education. How will schools find the necessary funding?
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