Relevant Policy and Research Papers

K-12

• Achievement Effects of Five Comprehensive School Reform Designs Implemented in Los Angeles Unified School District ( Mason, 2005)
• Achievement in California 2005: Where Are We Now, How Far Have We

  Come and How Far Do We Have Left to Go (2005)
• Achievement in California 2006 - Small Gains, Growing Gaps (2006)
• African American Achievement in America (2003)
• California’s Hidden Teacher Spending Gap: How State and District Budgeting Practices Shortchange Poor and Minority Students and Their Schools (2006)
• California at the Crossroads: Embracing the CAHSEE and Moving Forward. (2006)
• Enough to do the Job? Critical Questions about California’s Latest Teacher Equity Plan (2005)
• Early Childhood Interventions (2005)
• ESEA:Myths versus Realities Answers to common questions about the new No Child Left Behind Act (2006)
• Examining Gaps in Mathematics Achievement Among Racial-Ethnic Groups, 1972-1992 (2005)
• Foundations for Success: Case Study of How Urban School Systems Improve Student Achievement. (2002)
• Funding Gaps 2006 (2006)
• Gaining Traction, Gaining Ground: How Some High Schools Accelerate Learning for Struggling Students (2005)
• Gender Differences in High School Grades An Exploratory Study (1994)
• Getting it done: Ten Steps to a State Action Agenda (2004)
• Getting Honest About Grad Rates: How States Play the numbers and students lose (2005)
• Group Differences in Standardized Testing and Social Stratification (1999)
• Latino Achievement in America (2003)
• Preparing LAUSD High School Students for the 21st Century (2005)
• Primary Progess - Seconday Challenge 2006 Ed Trust (2006)
• Public Education and Black Male Students (2004)
• Public High School Graduation and College-Readiness Rates: 1991–2002 (2005)
• Similar Students, Different Results: Why Do Some Schools Do Better? A large-scale survey of California elementary schools serving low-income students (2005)
• State Goals for Increasing Postsecondary Attainment (Collins, 2006)
• Students Speak Out - Why the A-G Curriculum is Important to students (2005)
• Suspension and Expulsion At-A-Glance (2006)
• Teacher Inequality Report June2006 (2006)
• Telling the truth about highly qualified teachers (2003)
• The Funding Gap 2004 Many States Still Shortchange Low-Income and Minority Students (2004)
• The Other Gap - Poor Students Receive Fewer Dollars (2001)
• The Power to Change: High School that Help All Students Achieved (2005)
• Too Little Thought, Too Little Action California’s Teacher Equity Plan Falls Short (2006)
• Similar English Learning Students, Different Results:Why Do Some School Do Better? (2007)

    

K-16

• A Historical View of Subgroup Performance Difference on SAT Reasoning Test (2007)
• African American Achievement in California (2005)
• Are California High Schools Ready for the 21st Century (2004)
• Education Watch California - Achievement, Attainment and Opportunity from Elementary School Through College (2006)
• Identifying Appropriate College-Readiness Standards for All Students (2006)
• In Their Own Words - Voices from the Field (2005)Latino Education in California (2004)
• Multiple Perspectives On Multiple Pathways - Preparing California Youth for College, Career and Civic Responsibilities (2006)
• Promise Abandoned: How Policy Choices and Institutional Practices Restrict College Opportunities (2006)
• Questions That Matter: Setting The Research Agenda On Access and Success in Postsecondary Education (2005)
• On Course for Success - A Close Look at Selected High School Courses that Prepare All Students for College and Work (2005)
• Removing the Roadblocks - Fair College Opportunities For All California Students (2006)
• Restructuring and Reculturing Schools to Provide Students with Multiple Pathways to College and Career (2007)
• The Real Value of Teachers If good teachers matter, why don’t we act like it? (2004)
• The Relationship between Advanced Placement and College Graduation (2006)

Higher Education

• A Matter of Degree - Improving Graduation Rates in Four-Year Colleges and Universities (2004)
• Accountability Reporting for California Community College (2004)
• Choosing to Improve - Voices from Colleges and Universities with Better Graduation Rates (2005)
• Closing the Gap: Moving From Rhetoric To Reality In Opening Doors To Higher Education for African-American Students (2005)
• Data Don’t Drive: Building aPractitioner-DrivenCulture of Inquiryto AssessCommunityCollegePerformance (2005)
• Engines of Inequality (2006)
• Measuring Up 2006 The National Report Card On Higher Education (2006)
• One Step From the Finish Line - Higher College Graduation Rates are Within Our Reach (2005)
• Researching the Educational Benefits of Diversity (2005)