All Reports
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Thursday, January 1, 2009
Informing the Debate: Comparing Boston's Charter, Pilot and Traditional Schools
The first Charter School opened in Boston shortly after the landmark Massachusetts Education Reform Act in 1993. In 1995, the Boston Public Schools and the Boston Teacher’s Union responded by creating their own version of the autonomous school model, known as the “Pilot School.” Fifteen years later, the goal of this report is to assess the impact of these new school models on student achievement.
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Thursday, January 1, 2009
Best Practices for Event Review Committees
This document presents the results of a 12-month investigation of Event Review Committee (ERC) Best Practices. The identified best practices are listed and described. Strategies to achieve the best practice and factors that airlines should consider when implementing the best practice are also presented.
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Monday, December 1, 2008
Expectations and Reports of Homework for Public School Students
This Issue Brief reports that the amount of reading and mathematics homework that students' teachers expected them to complete on a typical evening generally increased from first grade to fifth grade. Children in schools with higher percentages of minority students had teachers who expected more homework on a typical evening compared to children in lower minority schools. In addition, in all three grades, larger percentages of Black, Asian, and Hispanic children than White children had parents who reported that their child did homework five or more times a week.
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Monday, December 1, 2008
Issue Brief: 1.5 Million Homeschooled Students in the United States in 2007
This Issue Brief provides estimates of the number and percentage of homeschooled students in the United States in 2007 and compares these estimates to those from 1999 and 2003.
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Friday, November 21, 2008
Public Elementary and Secondary School Student Enrollment and Staff
This First Look presents 2006-07 school year information at the national and state level on student enrollment by grade and by race/ethnicity within grade, the numbers of teachers and other education staff, and several student/staff ratios.
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Sunday, November 9, 2008
The Enhanced Reading Opportunities Study, Second Report
This report focuses on the second of two cohorts of ninth-grade students to participate in the study and discusses the impact that the two interventions had on these students’ reading comprehension skills through the end of their ninth-grade year.
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Thursday, October 23, 2008
Student Victimization in U.S. Public Schools: Results from the 2005 School Crime Supplement to the National Crime Victimization Survey
This report provides estimates of student victimization and characteristics of victims and nonvictims using data from the 2005 National Crime Victimization Survey Basic Screen Questionnaire, the NCVS Crime Incident Report, and the School Crime Supplement to the NCVS.
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Thursday, October 2, 2008
A Tale of Two Districts: Report Appendices
A Tale of Two Districts Report Appendices
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Thursday, October 2, 2008
Counting on the Future: International Benchmarks in Mathematics for American School Districts
In a highly interconnected world, the students served by urban school systems—the subject of this report—will require strong mathematic skills to compete against their peers around the globe. Reports such as Counting on the Future help policymakers and educators to know how well they are doing in meeting this challenge and to track progress over time.
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Thursday, October 2, 2008
A Tale of Two Districts - Report
This report describes the implementation of student-based funding (SBF) policies in two California school districts—San Francisco Unified School District and Oakland Unified School District.
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Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Status and Trends in the Education of American Indians and Alaska Natives: 2008
This report examines both the educational progress of American Indian/Alaska Native children and adults and challenges in their education, and shows that over time more American Indian/Alaska Native students have gone on to college and that their attainment expectations have increased.
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Monday, September 15, 2008
Help Wanted: State Capacity for School Improvement
This research brief reports on findings from an on-line survey conducted by AIR to study state education agency capacity to develop and deploy a statewide system of support for schools identified for improvement under No Child Left Behind (NCLB).
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Monday, September 15, 2008
State Systems of Support Under NCLB: Design Components and Quality Considerations
This brief presents data from a national survey of state administrators to describe trends in the implementation of the NCLB mandate for states to provide system to support to schools identified for improvement.
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Thursday, September 4, 2008
EQUIP1: Secondary Education Activity, Final Report
This five-year project aimed to improve the quality and relevance of secondary education for Macedonian youths, to equip them with the skills and knowledge to succeed in a changing social and economic environment, and to provide the Macedonian economy with a more flexible, better-prepared workforce.
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Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Impact of Two Professional Development Interventions on Early Reading Instruction and Achievement Report
To help states and districts make informed decisions about the professional development (PD) they implement to improve reading instruction, the U.S. Department of Education commissioned the Early Reading PD Interventions Study to examine the impact of two research-based PD interventions for reading instruction. This report describes the implementation of the PD interventions tested, and examines their impacts at the end of the year the PD was delivered.
