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This unique resource is for you:

  • If your governor or your legislator has asked you to tell him/her what the research says on education issues
  • If you don't know whom to trust -- and find it difficult to navigate potential bias and the selective use of data
  • If you don't have time to read 25 pages and trudge through complicated explanations of methodology
  • If you need to cut through the mud right to the findings and policy implications.

We've started small -- with 12 studies related to what's needed to improve the education of students in high schools. We'll be up to 20 by summer, with studies on dropout prevention and state and local supports for low-performing schools and districts. And we plan to add studies in other areas: teaching quality, postsecondary completion, restructuring schools and so on.

What you'll find in the ECS Research Studies Database:

  • Concise, bulleted lists of Findings and Results
  • Concise, bulleted lists of Policy Implications and Recommendations.
     

Criteria for inclusion:
  • Wide-reaching recommendations and policy implications
  • Implications for state-level policy
  • Interventions hold potential for replication
  • Peer-reviewed/juried -- although exceptions will be made on a
    case-by-case basis.

What you need to do:

  • To start, click on FAQs or SEARCH in the left margin of this page.
  • Use the findings and recommendations to inform policy decisions
  • Let us know how it might be improved
  • Send us suggestions for studies you would like us to include
  • Help us prioritize the issues around which you really need help.

The ECS Research Studies Database was developed in the scope of work of the ECS High School Policy Center.

ECS will quickly honor any request from a study's author or organization or publisher to remove any study included here. We also welcome submissions. Contact Kathy Christie at 303-299-3613 or kchristie@ecs.org with feedback, requests for inclusions or requests for removal.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Reference in this Web site to any specific commercial products, processes or services, or the use of any trade, firm or corporation name is for the information and convenience of the public, and does not constitute endorsement or recommendation by the Education Commission of the States. Please contact Kathy Christie at 303-299-3613 or kchristie@ecs.org for further information regarding the information posting standards and user policies of the Education Commission of the States.