Women's Well-Being: Ranking America's Top 25 Metro Areas

Education and Literacy, Health, Women

Women's Well-Being: Ranking America's Top 25 Metro Areas

Analyzes American Human Development Index data on women's life expectancy, school enrollment and degree attainment, and median earnings by metropolitan area. Examines contributing factors and disparities by race/ethnicity, location, and marital status.

August 1970

Geographic Focus: North America-United States

Suspended Education in California

Education and Literacy

Suspended Education in California

Analyzes data on risk of school suspension by race/ethnicity, gender, and disability status in nearly five hundred districts; highlights research showing suspensions to be ineffective and harmful; and calls for implementing evidence-based alternatives.

August 1970

Geographic Focus: North America-United States (Western)-California

Passing Muster: Evaluating Teacher Evaluation Systems

Education and Literacy

Passing Muster: Evaluating Teacher Evaluation Systems

Describes how state or federal governments could reward exceptional teachers based on a uniform standard across various district-level teacher evaluation systems by determining the systems' reliability in predicting future performance. Includes Q & A.

August 1970

Geographic Focus: North America-United States

Moving to Outcomes: Approaches to Incorporating Child Assessments Into State Early Childhood Quality Rating and Improvement Systems

Children and Youth, Education and Literacy

Moving to Outcomes: Approaches to Incorporating Child Assessments Into State Early Childhood Quality Rating and Improvement Systems

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

Supporting Our Youngest Children: Early Head Start Programs in 2010

Children and Youth, Education and Literacy, Parenting and Families

Supporting Our Youngest Children: Early Head Start Programs in 2010

Reviews research about the impact of Early Head Start programs on the health and development of poor children under age 3 and their parents' knowledge and parenting, trends in enrollment, program options, and characteristics of teachers and enrollees.

August 1970

Geographic Focus: North America-United States

Measuring Inequity in School Funding

Education and Literacy, Government Reform

Measuring Inequity in School Funding

Examines differences in per-pupil school funding among states, inequities among districts within states, and their implications. Calls for a progressive fiscal equity measure that would encourage state school financing reform.

August 1970

Geographic Focus: North America-United States

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