studies and reportsDiscipline & Zero Tolerance Demilitarizing What the Pentagon Knows About Developing Young People
A New Paradigm for Educating Students Who Are Struggling in School and in Life
Hugh B. Price, Senior Fellow, Economic Studies, The Brookings Institution, Center on Children and Families, May 2007
Arresting Development: Addressing the Discipline Crisis in Florida
NAACP, Spring 2006
Reality Check 2006: How Black and Hispanic Families Rate Their Schools
Public Agenda, Education Insights, May 1, 2006
Are Zero Tolerance Policies Effective in the Schools? An Evidentiary Review and Recommendations
Russell Skiba, Cecil R. Reynolds, Sandra Graham , Peter Sheras, Jane Close Conoley, & Enedina Garcia-Vazquez, A Report by the American Psychological Association Zero Tolerance Task Force, February 2006
Security Detail: An Inside Look at Safety and Discipline in the Hyperlegalized World of a New York City High School
Marc A. Epstein, Education Next, Summer 2003
Zero Tolerance, Zero Evidence: An Analysis of Disciplinary Practice
Indiana Education Policy Center, August 2000
Who Killed School Discipline?
Kay S. Hymowitz, City Journal, Spring 2000
Where Did All the Order Go? School Discipline and Law
Abigail Thernstrom, Brookings Papers on Education Policy, 1999
Order in the Classroom: Violence, Discipline and Student Achievement
Educational Testing Services, 1998
Schoolwide and Classroom Discipline
Kathleen Cotton
Lawsuits, Liability and Schools The Fourth ‘R’ of California’s School Districts: 'Ripped Off By Litigation'
California Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse, January 2008
Schools in Handcuffs, How Courts (mis)rule N.Y.C.
Ross Sandler and David Schoenbrod, The New York Post, March 14, 2003
Educational Jujitsu
Michael Heise, Education Next, Fall 2002
School Principal Survey Reveals Fear of Liability Limits Educational Opportunities for America's Children
American Tort Reform Association, September 1, 1999
Civil Liability Litigation and California's Schools: Education Lost
Association for California Tort Reform, December 1998
School Administration: Bureaucracy & Due Process The Red Tape Report: An Exploratory Study of the Regulatory Interference Faced by School Leaders in Five States
Matthew Carr, Marc Holley, and Nathan Gray, Thomas B. Fordham Institute, 2008
The Leadership Limbo
Teacher Labor Agreements in America's Fifty Largest School Districts
Frederick M. Hess and Coby Loup, The Thomas B. Fordham Institute, February 2008
New Three R’s: Rules, Regulations, and More Rules
Conducted by Focus Group Resource for Common Good Colorado, October 2007
The Autonomy Gap: Barriers to Effective School Leadership
A joint project of the American Institutes for Research and Thomas B. Fordham Institute
Steven Adamowski, Susan Bowles Therriault, Anthony P. Cavanna, April 2007
California Principal’s Resources: Acquisition, Deployment and Barriers
Bruce Fuller, Susanna Loeb, Nicole Arshan, Allison Chen, and Susanna Yi, University of California, Berkeley, and Stanford University, March 1, 2007
Evaluating the “Crazy Quilt”: Educational Governance in California
Dr. Dominic J. Brewer & Dr. Joanna Smith, Center on Educational Governance, Rossier School of Education, University of Southern California, December 2006
Are Indiana's Public Schools in Need of Education Deregulation?
Center for Evaluation and Education Policy, Winter 2006
A Delicate Balance: District Policies and Classroom Practice
Cross City Campaign for Urban School Reform, August 1, 2005
I'm Calling My Lawyer: How Litigation, Due Process and Other Regulatory Requirements Are Affecting Public Education
Public Agenda, November 2003
Rolling Up Their Sleeves: Superintendents and Principals Talk About What's Needed to Fix Public Schools
Public Agenda, November 2003
The View from Inside: A Candid Look at Today's School Superintendent
Colorado Association of School Executives, Fall 2003
Making Sense of Leading Schools: A Study of the School Principalship
Center on Reinventing Public Education, September 2003
An Impossible Job? The View from the Urban Superintendent's Chair
Center on Reinventing Public Education, July 2003
The Urban Education Dragon
Education Next, Winter 2003
One Man's Continuing War Against Recentralization: A Long Struggle for School Autonomy
Gil Schmerler, Phi Delta Kappan International, January 2002
Autonomy and Innovation: How do Massachusetts Charter School Principals Use Their Freedom?
Bill Triant, Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, December 2001
Trying to Stay Ahead of the Game: Superintendents and Principals Talk About School Leadership
Public Agenda, November 1, 2001
School Performance, Reforms and Policy Teacher Turnover, Tenure Policies, and the Distribution of Teacher Quality: Can High-Poverty Schools Catch a Break?
Raegen Miller and Robin Chait, Center for American Progress, December 2008
The Proficiency Illusion
Thomas B. Fordham Institute, October 2007
Performance-Pay for Teachers: Designing a System that Students Deserve
TeacherSolutions, April 2007
Getting Down to the Facts: Summary
Susanna Loeb, Anthony Bryk, and Eric Hanushek, Stanford University, March 2007
Why We Still Need Public Schools: Public Education for the Common Good
Nancy Kober, 2007
Tough Choices or Tough Times (Executive Summary)
New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce, December 15, 2006
The Future of Public Education in New Orleans
After Katrina Series by The Urban Institute
Paul T. Hill & Jane Hannaway, December 12, 2006
Collective Bargaining in Education: A New Dialogue
A presentation to the National Governors Association in Rhode Island
Andrew J. Rotherham, December 2006
A Review of State Teacher Policies
Susanna Loeb & Luke C. Miller, Institute for Research on Education Policy & Practice (IREPP), School of Education, Stanford University, December 2006
Hot Air: How States Inflate Their Educational Progress Under NCLB
Kevin Carey, Education Sector, May 2006
Leaving Boys Behind: High School Graduation Rates
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research
Jay P. Greene and Marcus A. Winters, April 2006
The Silent Epidemic: Perspectives of High School Dropouts
John M. Bridgeland, John J. DiIulio, Jr., and Karen Burke Morison, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, March 2006
From the Capital to the Classroom: Year Four of the No Child Left Behind Act
Center on Education Policy, March 1, 2006
A Public Education Primer: Basic (and Sometimes Surprising) Facts about the U.S. Education System
Nancy Kober, Center on Education Policy, 2006
Task Force on No Child Left Behind: Final Report
National Conference of State Legislatures, February 2005
Decentralized Decision-Making for Schools
Janet S. Hansen, RAND Corporation, and Marguerite Roza, University of Washington, RAND, 2005
Seeds of Change in the Big Apple: Chartering Schools in New York City
Robin J. Lake, Progressive Policy Institute, September 21, 2004
Ready or Not: Creating a High School Diploma that Counts
The American Diploma Project, February 2004
School Choice: Doing it the Right Way Makes a Difference
The National Working Commission on Choice in K-12 Education, February 2004
Building Trusting Relationships for School Improvement: Implications for Principals and Teachers
NorthWest Regional Educational Laboratory, September 2003
Organizational Configuration and Performance: The Case of Primary and Secondary School Systems
William G. Ouchi, et al., Anderson School of Management, UCLA, May 30, 2003
The Failure of Input-based Schooling Policies
Eric Hanushek, Economic Journal 113, February 2003
Special Education Sisyphean Tasks
Patrick Wolf, Education Next, Winter 2003
When It's Your Own Child: A Report on Special Education from the Families Who Use It
Public Agenda, June 2002
Rethinking Special Education for A New Century
Progressive Policy Institute and The Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, May 9, 2001
Teaching: Environment, Satisfaction and Performance What Keeps Good Teachers in the Classroom?
Understanding and Reducing Teacher Turnover
Alliance for Excellent Education, February 2008
New Three R’s: Rules, Regulations, and More Rules
Conducted by Focus Group Resource for Common Good Colorado, October 2007
Teacher Working Conditions
Center for Teaching Quality, May 2007
A Possible Dream: Retaining California Teachers so All Students Learn
Ken Futernick, Ph.D., California State University Center for Teacher Quality, April 2007
Frozen Assets: Rethinking Teacher Contracts Could Free Billions for School Reform
Marguerite Roza, Education Sector, January 2007
All in a Day’s Work: What’s Standing in the Way of Teacher Effectiveness?
A Common Good Report, October 2006
The MetLife Survey of the American Teacher
A Survey of Teachers, Principals, and Leaders of College Education
Project directed by Dana Markow, Ph.D., Chris Moessner, and Helene Horowitz for MetLife, September 1, 2006
Teaching at Risk: Progress and Potholes
The Teaching Commission, Spring 2006
Identifying Effective Teachers Using Performance on the Job
A Hamilton Project Discussion Paper, Brookings Institute
Robert Gordon, Thomas J. Kane & Douglas O. Staiger, April 2006
What Does Certification Teach Us About Teacher Effectiveness?
Thomas J. Kane, Jonah E. Rockoff, and Douglas O. Staiger, March 2006
Teacher Attrition: A Costly Loss to the Nation and to the States
Alliance for Excellent Education, August 2005
The Real Value of Teachers: If good teachers matter, why don't we act like it?
Thinking K-16, A Publication of The Education Trust, Winter 2004
Facade of Excellence
Sol Stern, Education Next, Summer 2003
Teacher Paper Workload
Los Angeles Unified School District, April 17, 2003
The Mystery of Good Teaching
Dan Goldhaber, Education Next, Spring 2003
Quality Counts 2003: "If I Can't Learn from You"
Education Week, January 9, 2003
Missed Opportunities: How We Keep High-Quality Teachers Out of Urban Classrooms
The New Teacher Project, 2003
Stand By Me: What Teachers Really Think about Unions, Merit Pay and Other Professional Matters
Public Agenda, 2003
Tortuous Routes
David Ruenzel, Education Next, Spring 2002
A Union by Any Other Name
Terry M. Moe, Education Next, Fall 2001
Teacher Turnover and Teacher Shortages: An Organizational Analysis
Richard Ingersoll, 2001
The New York City Teachers' Union Contract: Shackling Principals' Leadership
The Manhattan Institute, June 1999
Job Satisfaction Among America's Teachers: Effects of Workplace Conditions, Background Characteristics, and Teacher Compensation
National Center for Education Statistics, August 1, 1997
Teachers' Sense of Community: How do Public and Private Schools Compare?
National Center for Education Statistics, December 1, 1996
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