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Education Policy

Publications: Author(s): Year:
America's Promise Alliance: 10 Indicators of Academic Achievement and Youth Success Gifford, E.; Evans, K.; Berlin, L.J. & Bai, Y. 2011
Teacher Mobility, School Segregation, and Pay-Based Policies to Level the Playing Field Clotfelter, C.T., Ladd, H.F., & Vigdor, J.L. 2011
FIS Briefing Report: School Suspension in North Carolina: Research and Policy Options Anne-Marie Iselin 2010
Education reform and the quality of kindergartens in Jordan Al-Hassan, S.M., Obeidat, O.M., & Lansford, J.E. 2010
Pairing Nurses and Social Workers in Schools: North Carolina’s School-based Child and Family Support Teams Gifford, B., Wells, R.S., Miller, S., Troop, T., Bai, Y, & Babinski, L 2010
FIS Briefing Report: Evidence-based Policy - Strategies for Improving Outcomes and Accountability Katie Rosanbalm, Jenni Owen, Joel Rosch, Lynda Harrison 2009
What does "evidence-based" mean for you? Hughes, M., & Owen, J. 2009
Community intervention and public policy in the prevention of antisocial behavior. Dodge, K.A. 2009
School crime control and prevention. Cook, P.J., Gottfredson, D.C., & Na, C. 2009
Feasibility and integrity of a parent-teacher consultation intervention for ADHD children. Murray, D.W., Rabiner, D., Schulte, A., & Newitt, K. 2008
Dropout prevention: Strategies for improving high school graduation rates. Owen, J., Rosch, J., Muschkin, C., Alexander, J., & Wyant, C. 2008
The negative impact of starting middle school in sixth grade. Cook P., MacCoun, R., Muschkin, C., & Vigdor, J. 2008
Framing public policy and prevention of chronic violence in American youth. Dodge, K. 2008
The negative impact of starting middle school in sixth grade. Cook, P.J., MacCoun, R., Muschkin, C., & Vigdor, J. 2007
Multiple Teacher Ratings: An evaluation of measurement strategies. Muschkin, C., Malone, P., & the Conduct Problems Prevention Research Group. 2007
Is Deviant Peer Contagion A Problem, And What Can Be done? Rosch, J., & Lansford, J. 2006
Creating a Legal and Organizational Context for Reducing Peer Contagion. Rosch, J., & Lederman, C. 2006
School performance among African American children: Preparation, Beliefs, and Practices. Barbarin, O, McCandies, T., Coleman, C., & Hill, N. E. 2006
Short term suspensions; long term consequences; real life solutions. Rosch, J., Glennie, E., & Bonneau, K. 2006
Should sixth grade be in elementary or middle school? An analysis of grade configuration and student behavior. Cook, P.J., MacCoun, R., Muschkin, C., & Vigdor, J. 2006
Would higher salaries keep teachers in high-poverty schools? Evidence from a policy intervention in North Carolina. Clotfelter, C., Glennie, E., Ladd, H., & Vigdor, J. 2006
Arts, service, and academic clubs. Glennie, E., & Stearns, E. 2006
Grade Retention: Gap between research and practice. Xia, Nailing, & Glennie, E.J. 2005
Grade Retention: Cost-benefit analysis. Xia, Nailing, & Glennie, E.J. 2005
Grade Retention: A flawed education strategy. Xia, Nailing, & Glennie, E.J. 2005
The effect of school-based kindergarten transition policies and practices on child academic outcomes. Schulting, A. B., Malone, P. S., & Dodge, K. A. 2005
The transition to adulthood for youth leaving public systems: Challenges to policies and research. Foster, E. M., & Gifford, E. 2005
Community composition and collective action: Analyzing initial mail response to the 2000 census. Vigdor, J.L. 2003
College try: Why universities should stop encouraging applicants to take the SATS over and over again. Vigdor, J.L. 2003
Interracial friendliness and the social organization of schools. Stearns, E. 2003
The whole United States is southern!!: Brown v. Board and the mystification of race. Payne, C. 2003
More than a symbol of freedom: Education for liberation and democracy. Payne, C. 2003
What can be (and what has been) learned from general equilibrium simulation models of school finance. Nechyba, T.J. 2003
School finance, spatial income segregation and the nature of communities. Nechyba, T.J. 2003
Public school finance and urban school policy: General vs partial equilibrium analysis. Nechyba, T.J. 2003
Prospects for achieving equity or adequacy in education: The limits of state aid in general equilibrium. Nechyba, T.J. 2003
School choice in New Zealand: A cautionary tale. Ladd, H.F., & Fiske, E.B. 2003
Balancing public and private resources for basic education: School fees in post-apartheid South Africa. Ladd, H.F., & Fiske, E.B. 2003
Introduction. Ladd, H.F., & Fiske, E.B. 2003
Does competition improve teaching and learning: Evidence from New Zealand. Ladd, H.F., & Fiske, E.B. 2003
Employment, discrimination, segregation, health. Darity, W.A. Jr. 2003
Retaking the SAT. Vigdor, J.L., & Clotfelter, C.T. 2003
Segregation and resegregation in North Carolina's public school classrooms. Clotfelter, C.T., Ladd, H.F., & Vigdor, J.L. 2003
Introducing school choice into multi-district public school systems. Nechyba, T. 2003
Centralization, fiscal federalism, and private school attendance. Nechyba, T. 2003
No Child Left Behind and the education achievement gap. Stearns, E. 2002
The content of our character education: It's a process. Nicholson, M. 2002
The No Child Left Behind Act and the teacher shortage. Malone, D. 2002
Educating American students for life in a global society. Lansford, J.E. 2002
Why Hispanic students drop out of high school early: Data from North Carolina. Glennie, E.J., & Stearns, E. 2002
The No Child Left Behind Act and school-based accountability: Lessons from North Carolina. Glennie, E.J., & Ladd, H.F. 2002
Racial segregation: Promising news. Glaeser, E.L., and Vigdor, J.L. 2002
Understanding the stick (or Is It the carrot?): The effect of welfare beliefs on family formation decisions. Gibson, C.M. 2002
Divided on the inside, too. Clofelter, C.T., Ladd, H.F., & Vigdor, J.L. 2002
Perspective transformation: Prospective teachers' transformative journey through a tutoring service learning experience. Malone, D., Jones, B., & Stallings, D. 2002
Developmental models of aggression. Lansford, J.E., Rabiner, D.L., Miller-Johnson, S., Golonka, M., & Hendren, J. 2002
School-based accountability in North Carolina: The response of school principals. Ladd, H.F., & Zelli, A. 2002
Implementing value-added measures of school effectiveness: Getting the incentives right. Ladd, H.F., & Walsh, R. 2002
Intergeneration conflicts reconsidered: Demographic structure and the demand for public education. Ladd, H.F., & Murray, S. 2002
Market-based reforms in urban education. Ladd, H.F. 2002
Coming of age: The department of education. Dodge, K.A., Putallaz, M., & Malone, D. 2002
Interracial contact in high school extracurricular activities. Clotfelter, C.T. 2002
Can faculty be induced to relinquish tenure? Clotfelter, C.T. 2002
Alumni giving to elite private colleges and universities. Clotfelter, C.T. 2002
Can whole-school reform improve the productivity of urban schools: The evidence on three models. Bifulco, R. 2002
Charitable giving, income and taxes: An analysis of panel data. Auten, G., Sieg, H., & Clotfelter, C.T. 2002
Social information processing and children's social competence: A review of the literature. Gifford-Smith, M., & Rabiner, D. 2002
Self-governing schools and accountability in New Zealand. Ladd, H.F., & Fiske, E.B. 2001
Lessons from New Zealand Ladd, H.F., & Fiske, E.B. 2001
The uneven playing field of school choice: Evidence from New Zealand. Ladd, H.F., & Fiske, E.B. 2001
The effects of urban poverty on educational outcomes: Evidence from a randomized experiment. Ladd, H.F., Ludwig, J., & Duncan, G. 2001
Who teaches whom? Race and the distribution of novice teachers. Clotfelter, C.T., Ladd, H.F., & Vigdor, J.L. 2001
Review of "Tuition Rising: Why College Costs So Much," by Ronald Ehrenberg. Clotfelter, C.T. 2001
Accounting for private schools in a comprehensive measure of school segregation. Clotfelter, C.T. 2001
Evaluating school performance: Are we ready for prime time. Bifulco, R., & Buncombe, W. 2001
How does a community's demographic composition alter its fiscal burdens? Nechyba, T., & MaCurdy, T. 2001
Social approval, values and AFDC: A re-examination of the illegitimacy debate. Nechyba, T. 2001
The benefit view and the new view: Where do we stand 25 years into the debate? Nechyba, T. 2001
Labor force returns to education and cognitive skill. Kerckhoff, A.C., Raudenbush, S.W., & Glennie, E.J. 2001
Parenting and academic socialization as they relate to school readiness: The role of ethnicity and family income. Hill, N.E. 2001
The science of youth violence prevention: Progressing from developmental psychopathology to efficacy to effectiveness to public policy. Dodge, K.A. 2001
Increasing opportunity to learn via access to rigorous courses and programs: One strategy for closing the achievement gap for at-risk and ethnic minority students. Darity, W., Castellino, D.R., Tyson, K., Cobb, C., & McMillen, B. 2001
Are whites still 'fleeing'? Racial patterns and enrollment shifts in urban public schools. Clotfelter, C.T. 2001
Should education begin in infancy? Young adult findings from the Abecedarian study. Campbell, F.A., Ramey, C.T., Pungello, E., Sparling, J., & Miller-Johnson, S. 2001
Measuring school efficiency: an evaluation of methods using simulated data. Bifulco, R., & Bretschneider, S. 2001
Evaluating school performance: are we ready for prime time? Bifulco, R., & Duncombe, W. 2001
Vulnerabilities of academically gifted students. Pfeiffer, S.I., & Stocking, V. 2000
The practitioner's view of IQ testing and profile analysis. Pfeiffer, S.I., Reddy, L.A., Kletzel, J.E., Schmelzer, E.R., & Boyer, L.M. 2000
School finance reform: Introducing the choice factor. Nechyba, T., & Heise, M. 2000
Mobility, targeting, and private school vouchers. Nechyba, T. 2000
Give affirmative action time to act. Darity, W. 2000
Identifying Low-Performance Schools. Ammar, S., Bifulco, R., Duncombe, W., & Wright, R. 2000
So Much Reform, So Little Change: Building-Level Barriers to Urban School Reform. Payne, C., & Kaba, M. 2000
Education for Activism: Mississippi's Freedom Schools in the 1960s. Payne, C. 2000
Teaching peer relationship competence in schools. Troop, W.P., & Asher, S.R. 1999
The relation between behavior problems in early elementary school. Stormshak, E.A., Bierman, K.L., Bruschi, C., Dodge, K.A., Coie, J.D., & the Conduct Problems Prevention Research Group. 1999
Inclusion practices with special needs students: Theory, research and application. Pfeiffer, S.I., & Reddy, L.A. 1999
If it's offered, will they come? Influences on parents' participation in a community-based conduct problems prevention program. Orrell-Valente, J.K., Pinderhughes, E.E., Valente, E., Laird, R.D., & the Conduct Problems Preventions Research Group. 1999
Making money matter: Financing America's schools. Ladd, H.F., & Hansen, J. 1999