Publications

Education in Delaware

Opportunity Knocks: Assessing Delaware’s Education System

Vision 2015

Vision 2015 Briefs

Delaware Best Practices

Teacher Quality/Leadership

Performance-Pay for Teachers: Designing a Systems that Students Deserve, Center for Teaching Quality, April 2007.
Leading the Local: Teachers Union Presidents Speak on Change, Challenges, Education Sector, June 2007.
Teacher Compensation Database, The Education Commission of the States.
Advancing Pay for Performance, Education Week, 2009.
Information on Teacher Advancement Program (TAP), focused on recruiting, training, and retaining high quality educators by providing a professional compensation system.
Teacher Retention in the State of Delaware 2001–2006, Institute for Public Administration College of Human Services, Education & Public Policy University of Delaware, 2008.
Delaware Teacher and Administrator Supply Survey Analysis Report, Institute for Public Administration College of Human Services, Education & Public Policy University of Delaware, 2007.

Family & Community

The Family: America’s Smallest School, Education Testing Service, 2007.
Why, What and How of Effective School, Family and Community Partnerships, Dr. Karen L. Mapp, national education expert, 2007.
The Missing Piece of the Proficiency Puzzle, Commissioner’s Parents Advisory Panel, Final Report to the Kentucky Department of Education, June 2007.
Linking Student Achievement to School, Family, and Community Involvement, Edvantia, 2005.
Beyond Input: Achieving Authentic Participation in School Reform, Harvard Family Research Project, Volume 9,2, 2003.
One Dream, Two Realities: Perspectives of Parents on America’s High Schools , Civic Enterprises, 2008.

School Finance

LEAD Cost Efficiency Study, 2008.
LEAD Funding Study, 2008.
Toward More Effective Financing of Student Achievement in Delaware’s Schools, Delaware Public Policy Institute, 2004.
How Good is Good Enough? Achievement, Spending, and Delaware’s Future, Delaware Public Policy Institute, 2007.

School Choice

Providing Quality Choice Options in Education, National Governors Association, 2004.
Opening Doors: How Low-Income Parents Search for the Right School, Center on Reinventing Public Education, 2007.
Center for Education Reform
Plotting School Choice: The Challenge of Crossing District Lines, Education Sector Reports, 2008.

Standards and Accountability

Closing the Achievement Gap Takes Leadership, Kati Haycock, 2008.
Seeing the U.S. School Systems through the Prism of International Benchmarks, Andreas Schleicher, 2008.
Toward a More Powerful StudentAssessment System, The Steering Committee of the Delaware Statewide Academic Growth Assessment Pilot, November 2007.
A More Accurate Growth Model: Using Multigrade Adaptive Assessments to Measure Student Growth, Steering Committee of the Delaware Statewide Academic Growth Assessment Pilot, 2007.