Notes test score impacts for African Americans but not Latinos after three years. Also reveals higher levels of parent satisfaction with private schools and some aspects of the school climate.

In this report, we describe the value-added model used as part of the state of Oklahoma’s Teacher and Leader Effectiveness Evaluation System. We estimated measures of teacher and school effectiveness based on instruction provided in the 2013–2014 school year.

Helping students formulate career goals and prepare for successful careers continues to be an important educational objective pursued by many high schools. This report examines the challenges faced by a recent cohort of high school students as they sought to define and achieve their goals, the...

This paper investigates the extent to which variables describing the classroom behavior of teachers and variables describing teachers' backgrounds and training explain differences in the effectiveness of teachers in improving the vocabulary skills of inner-city black children in four elementary...