Education Finance and Policy

2006 - 2025

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Volume 10, issue 4, 2015

Teacher Layoffs, Teacher Quality, and Student Achievement: Evidence from a Discretionary Layoff Policy pp. 467-507

Matthew Kraft

Teacher Preparation Programs and Teacher Quality: Are There Real Differences Across Programs? pp. 508-534

Cory Koedel, Eric Parsons, Michael Podgursky and Mark Ehlert

Does Teacher Evaluation Improve School Performance? Experimental Evidence from Chicago's Excellence in Teaching Project pp. 535-572

Matthew P. Steinberg and Lauren Sartain

Staffing a Low-Performing School: Behavioral Responses to Selective Teacher Transfer Incentives pp. 573-610

Ali Protik, Steven Glazerman, Julie Bruch and Bing-ru Teh

Volume 10, issue 3, 2015

Shifting Boundaries and Shady Borders: A Call for Research on the Political Economy of Education Reform pp. 301-313

Jane Hannaway

Does Shortening the School Week Impact Student Performance? Evidence from the Four-Day School Week pp. 314-349

D. Mark Anderson and MaryBeth Walker

Hold Back To Move Forward? Early Grade Retention And Student Misbehavior pp. 350-377

Umut Ozek

School Districts and Student Achievement pp. 378-398

Matthew M. Chingos, Grover J. Whitehurst and Michael R. Gallaher

The Relationship Between Student Transfers and District Academic Performance: Accounting for Feedback Effects pp. 399-422

David M. Welsch and David Zimmer

Charter School Expansion and Within-District Equity: Confluence or Conflict? pp. 423-465

Bruce D. Baker, Ken Libby and Kathryn Wiley

Volume 10, issue 2, 2015

Bridging the Discontinuity in Adolescent Literacy? Mixed Evidence from a Middle Grades Intervention pp. 157-192

Shaun M. Dougherty

Which Teachers Choose a Defined Contribution Pension Plan? Evidence from the Florida Retirement System pp. 193-222

Matthew M. Chingos and Martin R. West

Do Study Abroad Programs Enhance the Employability of Graduates? pp. 223-243

Giorgio Di Pietro

A Smart Break? College Tenure Interruption and Graduating Student Outcomes pp. 244-276

P. Wesley Routon and Jay Walker

Messengers of Bad News or Bad Apples? Student Debt and College Accountability pp. 277-299

Rajeev Darolia

Volume 10, issue 1, 2014

Development, Discouragement, or Diversion? New Evidence on the Effects of College Remediation Policy pp. 4-45

Judith Scott-Clayton and Olga Rodriguez

Does Failing a Placement Exam Discourage Underprepared Students from Going to College? pp. 46-80

Paco Martorell, Isaac McFarlin, Jr. and Yu Xue

How to Make Additional Time Matter: Integrating Individualized Tutorials into an Extended Day pp. 81-116

Matthew Kraft

Can Value-Added Measures of Teacher Performance Be Trusted? pp. 117-156

Cassandra Guarino, Mark D. Reckase and Jeffrey M. Woolrdige

Volume 9, issue 4, 2014

Did Cuts in State Aid During the Great Recession Lead to Changes in Local Property Taxes? pp. 383-416

Rajashri Chakrabarti, Max Livingston and Joydeep Roy

Michigan and Ohio K–12 Educational Financing Systems: Equality and Efficiency pp. 417-445

Michael Conlin and Paul N. Thompson

The Unintended Consequences of Property Tax Relief: New York’s STAR Program pp. 446-480

Tae Ho Eom, William Duncombe, Phuong Nguyen-Hoang and John Yinger

Unintended Consequences: The Impact of Proposition 2½ Overrides on School Segregation in Massachusetts pp. 481-514

Jeffrey Zabel

Tax Increment Financing and Education Expenditures: The Case of Iowa pp. 515-540

Phuong Nguyen-Hoang

The Rise of School-Supporting Nonprofits pp. 541-566

Ashlyn Aiko Nelson and Beth Gazley

So Slow to Change: The Limited Growth of Nontax Revenues in Public Education Finance, 1991–2010 pp. 567-599

Thomas Downes and Kieran M. Killeen

Volume 9, issue 3, 2014

New Measures of TeachersÕ Work Hours and Implications for Wage Comparisons pp. 231-263

Kristine L. West

Teacher Preparation Policies and Their Effects on Student Achievement pp. 264-303

Gary T. Henry, Kevin C. Bastian, C. Kevin Fortner, David C. Kershaw, Kelly M. Purtell, Charles L. Thompson and Rebecca A. Zulli

When Unified Teacher Pay Scales Meet Differential Alternative Returns pp. 304-333

Patrick Walsh

Assessed by a Teacher Like Me: Race and Teacher Assessments pp. 334-372

Amine Ouazad

Volume 9, issue 2, 2014

School Finance and Learning: Are We Leveraging State Aid to Get All We Can Out of It? pp. 109-115

Deborah H. Cunningham

Do Standard Measures of Preschool Quality Used in Statewide Policy Predict School Readiness? pp. 116-164

Terri J. Sabol and Robert C. Pianta

Who Benefits from Pension Enhancements? pp. 165-192

Cory Koedel, Shawn Ni and Michael Podgursky

Estimated Effect of the Teacher Advancement Program on Student Test Score Gains pp. 193-230

Matthew Springer, Dale Ballou and Art (Xiao) Peng

Volume 9, issue 1, 2014

Does Greater Autonomy Improve School Performance? Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Analysis in Chicago pp. 1-35

Matthew P. Steinberg

Do KIPP Schools Boost Student Achievement? pp. 36-58

Philip M. Gleason, Christina Clark Tuttle, Brian Gill, Ira Nichols-Barrer and Bing-ru Teh

Charter School Authorizers and Student Achievement pp. 59-85

Ron Zimmer, Brian Gill, Jonathon Attridge and Kaitlin Obenauf

Fiscal Impacts of Charter Schools: Lessons from New York pp. 86-107

Robert Bifulco and Randall Reback

Volume 8, issue 4, 2013

Where You Come From or Where You Go? Distinguishing Between School Quality and the Effectiveness of Teacher Preparation Program Graduates pp. 459-493

Kata Mihaly, Daniel McCaffrey, Tim Sass and J. R. Lockwood

Managing the Teacher Workforce in Austere Times: The Determinants and Implications of Teacher Layoffs pp. 494-527

Dan Goldhaber and Roddy Theobald

School-Based Accountability and the Distribution of Teacher Quality Across Grades in Elementary School pp. 528-559

Sarah C. Fuller and Helen Ladd

Incorporating Access to More Effective Teachers into Assessments of Educational Resource Equity pp. 560-580

Kevin C. Bastian, Gary T. Henry and Charles L. Thompson

The Early Childhood Care and Education Workforce from 1990 through 2010: Changing Dynamics and Persistent Concerns pp. 581-601

Daphna Bassok, Maria Fitzpatrick, Susanna Loeb and Agustina Paglayan

Volume 8, issue 3, 2013

Policy Makers and Researchers Schooling Each Other: Lessons in Educational Policy from New York pp. 275-286

Deborah H. Cunningham and James Wyckoff

The Problem with Briefs, in Brief pp. 287-299

Carrie Conaway

Multi-Track Year-Round Schooling as Cost Saving Reform: Not Just a Matter of Time pp. 300-315

Jennifer Graves, Steven McMullen and Katy Rouse

Funding Special Education by Total District Enrollment: Advantages, Disadvantages, and Policy Considerations pp. 316-331

Elizabeth Dhuey and Stephen Lipscomb

Learning from Experience? Evidence on the Impact and Distribution of Teacher Experience and the Implications for Teacher Policy pp. 332-348

Jennifer King Rice

Financial Aid's Role in Meeting State College Completion Goals pp. 349-363

Nicholas W. Hillman and Erica Lee Orians

Undocumented College Students in the United States: In-State Tuition Not Enough to Ensure Four-Year Degree Completion pp. 364-377

Dylan Conger and Colin C. Chellman

The Role of Politics and Governance in Educational Accountability Systems pp. 378-393

Dominic J. Brewer, Kieran M. Killeen and Richard O. Welsh

Adjusted Poverty Measures and the Distribution of Title I Aid: Does Title I Really Make the Rich States Richer? pp. 394-417

Bruce D. Baker, Lori Taylor, Jesse Levin, Jay Chambers and Charles Blankenship

Value Added and Its Uses: Where You Stand Depends on Where You Sit pp. 418-434

Sean Corcoran and Dan Goldhaber

The Strategic Data Project's Strategic Performance Indicators pp. 435-456

Lindsay C. Page, Jon Fullerton, Andrew Bacher-Hicks, Antoniya Owens, Sarah Cohodes, Martin R. West and Sarah Glover

Volume 8, issue 2, 2013

Accountability with Voucher Threats, Responses, and the Test-Taking Population: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Florida pp. 121-167

Rajashri Chakrabarti

If You Build it Will They Come? Teachers’ Online Use of Student Performance Data pp. 168-207

John H. Tyler

Were Minority Students Discouraged from Applying to University of California Campuses after the Affirmative Action Ban? pp. 208-250

Kate Antonovics and Ben Backes

When is 100% not 100%? The Use of Safe Harbor to Make Adequate Yearly Progress pp. 251-270

Morgan S. Polikoff and Stephani L. Wrabel

Volume 8, issue 1, 2013

Thirty-Seven and Counting: How Has AEFP Evolved from Its Origins? pp. 1-13

Carolyn D. Herrington

Do Charters Retain Teachers Differently? Evidence from Elementary Schools in Florida pp. 14-42

Joshua M. Cowen and Marcus A. Winters

Principals' Perceptions of Competition for Students in Milwaukee Schools pp. 43-73

Matthew Kasman and Susanna Loeb

Is the Juice Worth the Squeeze? A Benefit/Cost Analysis of the District of Columbia Opportunity Scholarship Program pp. 74-99

Patrick J. Wolf and Michael McShane

The Effect of Student Evaluations on Academic Success pp. 100-119

Benjamin Artz and David M. Welsch