National Research

 

Throughout the nation, various organizations have conducted research that promotes progress in K-12 education. Chalkboard has selected samplings of this research that promotes education reform.

Quality teaching

"Empowering Effective Teachers: Strategies for Implementing Reforms." Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. February 2010.

"Empowering Effective Teachers: Readiness for Reform." Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. February 2010.

"Achieving Teacher and Principal Effectiveness." Philanthropy Roundtable.

"A Teacher Development Continuum: The Role of Policy in Creating a Supportive Pathway into the Profession." New Teachers Center. June 2009

"Collective Bargaining in Education and Pay for Performance." National Center on Performance Incentives. February 2008

"Fixing Tenure: A proposal for ensuring teacher effectiveness and due process." Center for American Progress. June 2009

MentoringEducators.org - Find research and information on educator mentoring and teacher induction.

"No Dream Denied: A Pledge to America's Children." NCTAF. January 2003.

"Teacher Licensure Tests and Student Achievement." Don Goldhaber. March 2005

"Separation of Degrees: A State-by-State Analysis of Teacher Compensation for Master's Degrees." Marguerite Roza and Raegan Miller. July 2009

What Works Clearinghouse - The U.S. Department of Education Institute of Educational Sciences research Web site.

"The Widget Effect: Our National Failure to Acknowledge and Act on Differences in Teacher Effectiveness." The New Teacher Project. 2009.

Finance and accountability

"Interpreting 'Race to the Top.'" The New Teacher Project. August 2009.

"Realigning Resources for District Transformation." Center for American Progress. April 2009

"Strengthening Transparency, Governance Accountability in the Nonprofit Sector." Independent Sector. June 2005

student success

"A Road to Results." Annie E. Casey Foundation. 2006

"Challenging Myths: The Bentwood Initiative." March 2006

"Connecting Schools, Families and Communities." Annie E. Casey Foundation. 2007

"Is Oregon Ready to Learn? Improving Oregon's Kindergarden Readiness Survey." Children's Institute. Fall 2009.

"Proficiency-Based Instruction and Assessment." Oregon Education Roundtable. March 2009.

"Putting Middle Grades Students on the Graduation Path." National Middle School Association. June 2009

"Teachers, Schools and Academic Achievement." Steven G. Rivkin, Eric A. Hanushek, and John F. Kain . March 2005