RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Tom Loveless, October 16, 2008, The National Mathematics Advisory Panel
As a member of the National Mathematics Advisory Panel, Tom Loveless discusses the policy implications of the Panel's findings at the federal, state, district, and school levels, including recommendations related to state standards, curriculum frameworks, and assessments. Read More
PAST EVENT
Monday, October 22, 2007
10:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Washington, DC
At an event hosted by the Brown Center on Education Policy, authors of a new volume examined whether No Child Left Behind is enhancing educational opportunities for our most disadvantaged students. Read More
PAST EVENT
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Washington, DC
Richard Kahlenberg tells the story of the founder of the American Federation of Teachers in his new book. On October 16th, Kahlenberg was joined by Brookings’s E. J. Dionne, Jr. and others for a discussion of Shanker’s legacy Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Douglas O. Staiger, Robert Gordon and Thomas J. Kane, April 2006, A Hamilton Project Discussion Paper
Traditionally, policymakers have attempted to improve the quality of the teaching force by raising minimum credentials for entering teachers. Recent research, however, suggests that such paper qualifications have little predictive power in identifying effective teachers. We propose federal support to help states measure the effectiveness of individual teachers—based on their impact on student achievement, subjective evaluations by principals and peers, and parental evaluations. States would be given considerable discretion to develop their own measures, as long as student achievement impacts (using so-called "value-added" measures) are a key component. The federal government would pay for bonuses to highly rated teachers willing to teach in high-poverty schools. In return for federal support, schools would not be able to offer tenure to new teachers who receive poor evaluations during their first two years on the job without obtaining district approval and informing parents in the schools. States would open further the door to teaching for those who lack traditional certification but can demonstrate success on the job. This approach would facilitate entry into teaching by those pursuing other careers. The new measures of teacher performance would also provide key data for teachers and schools to use in their efforts to improve their performance. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Kathryn Tout, Kelly Maxwell, Martha Zaslow and Richard Clifford, Nov-04, Prepared for the Conference ""Creating a National Plan for the Education of 4-Year-Olds""
Paper by Martha Zaslow, Kathryn Tout, and Kelly Maxwell, Prepared for the Conference ?Creating a National Plan for the Education of 4-Year-Olds,"" (9/10/04) Read More
BOOK
Tom Loveless, April 26, 2000
This volume provides a clear, balanced analysis of the role of teachers unions in encouraging, implementing, and/or stifling reform in U.S. public schools. Read More
PAST EVENT
Tuesday, April 11, 2000
10:00 AM to
Washington, DC
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RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Diane Ravitch, 10-Aug-98, The Washington Post
Opinion by Diane Ravitch, Nonresident Senior Fellow, the Brookings Institution, in The Washington Post, August 10, 1998 Read More
NEWS RELEASE
October 16, 2008
Grover J. “Russ” Whitehurst, director of the Institute of Education Sciences in the U.S. Department of Education, is joining the Brookings Institution as senior fellow in Governance Studies and director of the Brown Center on Education, Brookings President Strobe Talbott announced. Read More