
Examines the growth of charter school management organizations, characteristics of students served, and use of resources; CMO practices; impact on students, including middle school test scores; and structures and practices linked to positive outcomes.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America-United States

Education and Literacy, International Development
Outlines priorities and strategies for realizing education for all in development and poverty alleviation efforts: ensure early childhood education, literacy and numeracy in the lower grades, and postprimary opportunities. Makes policy recommendations.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: Global

Children and Youth, Education and Literacy
Examines issues for implementing standardized observation protocols for teacher evaluations. Makes recommendations based on lessons from preschool, such as the need to show empirical links between teacher performance and student learning and development.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America-United States

Ranks elementary, middle, and high schools -- including public, charter, and private schools -- in the Detroit area by neighborhood, based on reading and math test scores averaged over a three-year period.
August 1970
Geographic Focus:

Education and Literacy, Employment and Labor
Proposes interest-based collective bargaining, as opposed to traditional adversarial negotiations, and empowering teachers, staff, and principals as a way to enable unions to play a critical role in improving education and closing the achievement gap.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America-United States (Northeastern)-Massachusetts

Children and Youth, Education and Literacy, Immigration
Examines gaps in school readiness among low-income children, especially those in immigrant and linguistically isolated families; the type of early care and education they receive; and the need for targeted center-based preschool programs to close gaps.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America-United States (Western)-California

Reviews the implementation of a schoolwide reform model that offers teachers incentives to improve student achievement and classroom performance. Examines its impact on student test scores and on teacher retention within schools.
August 1970
Geographic Focus:

Children and Youth, Education and Literacy
Analyzes state policy options for incorporating direct assessments of children into the design, implementation, and evaluation of quality rating and improvement systems and other quality improvement efforts to determine the impact on child outcomes.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America-United States (Western)-California