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Supporting Principals’ Learning: Key Features of Effective Programs

Leib Sutcher

Anne Podolsky

Danny Espinoza

Feb 27 2017
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Principals play a central role in creating schools in which students thrive academically and the teaching staff is strong, stable, and supported. This report analyzes the research on quality preparation and professional development programs for principals, highlighting examples of effective programs and providing guidance for policymakers.

Topics Educator Quality, Educator Quality: Professional Learning, Educator Quality: Recruitment & Retention, Equitable Resources and Access
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Advancing Educational Equity for Underserved Youth

Jessica Cardichon

Linda Darling-Hammond

Feb 23 2017
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Strategic selection and use of performance indicators can illuminate disparities in our schools and focus attention and resources on rectifying long-standing inequities. This report explores how states can use a multiple-measure accountability system to improve educational opportunities and outcomes for underserved youth and begin to dismantle the school-to-prison-pipeline.

Topics The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), Accountability and Improvement, Equitable Resources and Access, Deeper Learning, Deeper Learning: School Organization & Design
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Next Generation Accountability: A Vision for School Improvement Under ESSA

Curt M. Adams

Timothy G. Ford

Patrick B. Forsyth

Jordan K. Ware

Jentre J. Olsen

John A. Lepine

Laura L.B. Barnes

Jam Khojasteh

Mwarumba Mwavita

Feb 23 2017
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What will it take for states to move from compliance-focused accountability systems to systems that enable a culture of continuous learning and improvement? In this report, the authors lay out a vision for next generation accountability systems designed to support the goal of college and career readiness for all students.

Topics The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), Accountability and Improvement, Deeper Learning
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Addressing California’s Growing Teacher Shortage: 2017 Update

Desiree Carver-Thomas

Linda Darling-Hammond

Feb 08 2017
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California’s teacher shortage is worsening as demand continues to outpace the supply of new teachers. The shortage of special education, mathematics, and science teachers is especially severe, prompting an increase in the number of underprepared teachers. Low-income and minority students are disproportionately impacted by shortages, which threaten to undermine academic progress. This report details findings from LPI’s 2017 Update on California’s teacher shortage and offers policy recommendations to address this pressing problem.

Topics Educator Quality, Educator Quality: Recruitment & Retention, Educator Quality: Professional Learning, Educator Quality: Evaluation & Career Development, Equitable Resources and Access
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Equity and ESSA: Leveraging Educational Opportunity Through the Every Student Succeeds Act

Channa Cook-Harvey

Linda Darling-Hammond

Livia Lam

Charmaine Mercer

Dec 07 2016
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The passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) represents an opportunity for states, districts, and schools to equitably design education systems to ensure that historically underserved students are prepared for the demands of the 21st century. This report details the equity implications of ESSA and provides recommendations for ways in which states, districts, and schools can leverage the new law to enhance equitable educational opportunities and close persistent achievement gaps.

Topics Equitable Resources and Access, Deeper Learning, The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)
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A Coming Crisis in Teaching? Teacher Supply, Demand, and Shortages in the U.S.

Leib Sutcher

Linda Darling-Hammond

Desiree Carver-Thomas

Sep 15 2016
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Widespread media reports of local teacher shortages have become a hot topic in education since the summer of 2015. After years of teacher layoffs, districts began hiring again as the economy recovered from the Great Recession. This report analyzes evidence of teacher shortages, looks at national and regional trends in teacher supply and demand, and investigates policy strategies that might mitigate these effects based on research about effective approaches to recruitment and retention.

Topics Educator Quality, Educator Quality: Recruitment & Retention, Educator Quality: Professional Learning
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Solving the Teacher Shortage: How to Attract and Retain Excellent Educators

Anne Podolsky

Tara Kini

Joseph Bishop

Linda Darling-Hammond

Sep 15 2016
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High rates of teacher turnover contribute to shortages and undermine academic progress. This report reviews an extensive body of research on teacher recruitment and retention, identifies key factors that influence decisions to enter, stay in, or leave the profession, and offers evidence-based recommendations for local, state, and federal policymakers.

Topics Educator Quality: Recruitment & Retention, Educator Quality, Educator Quality: Professional Learning
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The Teacher Residency: An Innovative Model for Preparing Teachers

Roneeta Guha

Maria E. Hyler

Linda Darling-Hammond

Sep 15 2016
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The teacher residency model holds much promise to address the issues of recruitment and retention in high-need districts and subject area shortages. This model also has the potential to support systemic change and building of the teaching profession, especially in the most challenging districts. Initial research is promising as to the impact residencies can have on increasing the diversity of the teaching force, improving retention of new teachers, and promoting gains in student learning.

Topics Educator Quality, Educator Quality: Professional Learning
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The Road to High-Quality Early Learning: Lessons From the States

Marjorie Wechsler

David L. Kirp

Titilayo Tinubu Ali

Madelyn Gardner

Anna Maier

Hanna Melnick

Patrick M. Shields

Jun 29 2016
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Considerable research exists on the elements of high-quality early childhood education and its many benefits, particularly for low-income children and English learners, but little information is available to policymakers about how to enact their visions of good pre-k programs. This report fills that gap by describing and analyzing how four states—Michigan, West Virginia, Washington, and North Carolina—have built high-quality early education systems.

Topics Early Childhood Learning, Educator Quality
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Does Teaching Experience Increase Teacher Effectiveness? A Review of the Research

Tara Kini

Anne Podolsky

Jun 03 2016
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Do teachers, on average, continue to improve in their effectiveness as they gain experience in the teaching profession? This review of research finds that teaching experience is, on average, positively associated with student achievement gains throughout a teacher’s career, especially in collaborative school environments.

Topics Educator Quality, Educator Quality: Professional Learning, Educator Quality: Evaluation & Career Development, Educator Quality: Recruitment & Retention, Equitable Resources and Access, Deeper Learning: School Organization & Design

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Untangling the Evidence on Preschool Effectiveness: Insights for Policymakers

Jan 31 2019

Research on early learning programs in the 1960s and 1970s revealed longlasting benefits, sparking investment in preschool programs. However, recent evaluations of two large preschool programs found mixed results, creating confusion about whether preschool programs can support student success. This report reviews these two studies and others in depth, and finds that when participants are compared to very similar students who did not attend preschool, the benefits of participation are typically found to be substantial.

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Essential Building Blocks for State School Finance Systems and Promising State Practices

Dec 05 2018

The cost for failing to properly invest in a high-quality public education for all children has grave implications for both the students and society at large. A new report shares essential state-level strategies and examples to help policymakers develop equitable and effective school finance systems.

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The Tapestry of American Public Education: How Can We Create a System of Schools Worth Choosing for All?

Oct 25 2018

Often forgotten in the policy debates on school choice are fundamental questions of whether and how choice influences access to high-quality schools, and whether, in our diverse democracy that requires common ground, choices promote or undermine integration. This report reviews research on a variety of school choice strategies and examines how public school choices can be managed to ensure all students have excellent schools to choose from and are chosen by excellent schools.

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