This unique resource provides concise findings, policy implications and recommendations on key issues.
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.
Topics
- Accountability: Do high-stakes systems raise student achievement?
- Achievement Gaps: How do state standards, assessments, curriculum influence achievement?
- Advanced Placement: Do state policies matter?
- Choice of Schools: What do policymakers need to know?
- College Access: What helps to promote student access to college?
- College Persistence & Completion: What impacts student & institutional success?
- Common Core: What is it I need to know?
- Counseling: Does it really impact student decisionmaking?
- Developmental Studies/Remedial Education: What is the impact of policy and practice?
- Developmental Studies/Remedial Education: What role does and can it play in college completion?
- Dropouts: Why do students drop out of school and what might help them to stay?
- English Language Learners:Which approaches best impact achievement?
- Governance: Do governance structures impact policy, finance and student outcomes
- Grade Configurations (i.e., K-3, K-8, 6-8): Do they matter?
- Health: What is its relationship to achievement?
- High School Curriculum: How important is rigor?
- Leadership: What policies and/or practices matter most?
- Mathematics: Which practices impact student achievement?
- Ninth Grade: Is it a make-or-break time for a successful high school career?
- Parent Involvement: What most impacts student success?
- PreK-Grade 3: What features define high-quality learning environments?
- Preschool: How ready is ready for school?
- Reading/Literacy: Which practices matter most?
- Return on Investment: Where should leaders invest?
- School Improvement: What works in improving low-performing schools/districts?
- Student Mobility: Does it affect educational outcomes?
- Students with Disabilities: Enhancing outcomes
- Teaching Quality: How prevalent are research-based practices in the classroom?
- Teaching Quality: What helps recruit and retain good teachers?
- Teaching Quality: What metrics best measure teacher effectiveness?
- Teaching Quality: What preparation and practices matter?
- Using Data: How can long-term outcomes inform instructional programming?
- Value of an Education: What educational & student factors impact later earnings?
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