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Stimulating Excellence
Report from CAP, AEI, Public Impact, and New Profit explores how state and federal policy can encourage innovation in education.
The Fiscal Costs of Expanded Learning Time
Report provides a framework for policymakers and practitioners to identify the key cost components involved in expanding the school day.
College-Ready Students, Student-Ready Colleges
Report from Louis Soares and Christopher Mazzeo offers solutions for raising degree completion rates through student empowerment and systems change.
Ensuring Equal Opportunity in Public Education
Report addresses ways in which local school district funding practices hurt disadvantaged students and what federal policy can do about it.
Leaders and Laggards
A joint platform for education reform from the Center for American Progress and U.S. Chamber of Commerce with interactive U.S. map.Other Education Features
June 30, 2009
Using Teacher Evaluations to Improve Education
A CAP event presents ways to improve teacher evaluations and use tenure more effectively.
June 25, 2009
So Long, Lake Wobegon?
Report from Morgaen L. Donaldson discusses strategies for using teacher evaluation to raise teacher quality.
June 25, 2009
Fixing Tenure
Joan Baratz-Snowden puts forward a proposal for assuring teacher effectiveness and due process.
June 22, 2009
Working Learners
Report from Louis Soares outlines a plan for educating our entire workforce for success in the 21st century.
June 22, 2009
Teacher Incentive Fund Addresses Three Key Issues
Robin Chait and Raegen Miller explain why proposed additional funding for the Teacher Incentive Fund can improve teacher quality and student achievement in high-poverty schools.
June 11, 2009
Child Homelessness in the Economic Crisis
Joy Moses interviews Michigan educator Kathy Kropf about the difficulties facing homeless children in the recession.
May 22, 2009
Weekly Round Up: May 18 - 22, 2009
We supported clean-energy legislation, hosted Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, and imagined what America would look like without health reform.
May 21, 2009
Taking Off The Rose-Colored Glasses
States are getting different amounts of money for education spending from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and those most in need may not be getting what they need, writes Raegen Miller.
May 18, 2009
Paying Teachers for Results
Report from Robin Chait and Raegen Miller examines research that will inform the design of pay-for-performance programs for high-poverty schools.
May 18, 2009
Putting the Pieces of the Puzzle Together
A report from Claire E. White and James S. Kim explains how to use systematic vocabulary instruction and expanded learning time to address the literacy gap.
May 18, 2009
Ensuring Effective Teachers for All Students
Report from Robin Chait outlines six state strategies for attracting and retaining effective teachers in high-poverty and high-minority schools.
May 18, 2009
Getting Students More Learning Time Online
Report from Cathy Cavanaugh explores how online, distance learning can facilitate expanded learning time initiatives in K-12 schools.
May 7, 2009
Entrepreneurship in Education
A panel of experts discussed how private investment can close both funding and achievement gaps in the public education system.
May 5, 2009
14 Education Entrepreneurs that Are Making a Difference
Profiles of charter schools, human capital builders, and service providers that are changing the way we look at education.
April 22, 2009
Realigning Resources for District Transformation
Report from CAP and Education Resource Strategies provides recommendations for using American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds to advance a strategic education reform agenda.
April 21, 2009
The Promise of Service
President Obama helps unlock the potential of national service today by signing the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act, writes Shirley Sagawa.
April 13, 2009
Work and Education Can Go Hand in Hand
Working adults need a college education system that matches their busy lives and delivers tangible career benefits, writes Louis Soares. A proposed federal program to encourage these steps is now before Congress.
April 8, 2009
Education Reform: Lessons from New Jersey
A panel of experts joined CAP and The Century Foundation to discuss the lessons from New Jersey’s success in closing the achievement gap in high-poverty schools.
March 31, 2009
Innovation Is in the Details
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act has the potential to transform the Workforce Development System, writes Louis Soares.
March 26, 2009
Five Ways to Innovate in Education
Melissa Lazarín and Robin Chait detail five innovative initiatives that states and school districts can implement with recovery funds.
March 16, 2009
Ask the Expert: President Obama's Education Priorities
Melissa Lazarín on what the budget blueprint reveals about what types of initiatives we should expect to see in the next year and how the budget will affect the No Child Left Behind Act.
March 10, 2009
Students Can Improve National Service
Visiting Fellow Shirley Sagawa testifies before U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions on college students and national service.
March 2, 2009
Renewing Education's Promise
Improving alternate teacher certification programs can help attract young, motivated college graduates into tough schools around the country.
February 27, 2009
Weekly Round Up: February 23 - 27, 2009
Our experts analyzed Obama's budget, offered ideas for how to bring the electrical grid into the 21st century, and responded to Obama's call for a college education for all.
February 27, 2009
Realizing the Promise
Report from Robin Chait and Michele McLaughlin explains how state policy can support alternative certification programs for teachers.
February 26, 2009
Investing Wisely in Our Children
Obama’s new budget blueprint includes much-needed money alongside critical reforms to transform our public schools, write Cynthia Brown and Melissa Lazarin.
February 26, 2009
A Postsecondary Degree or Credential in Every Pot
President Obama's bold goal of retaking America's global leadership in college graduates by 2020 is critical for our national competitiveness and economy, writes Louis Soares.
February 10, 2009
The Other College
Report from Molly F. McIntosh and Cecilia Rouse examines retention and completion rates in two-year colleges.
February 4, 2009
Help for Students, Help for the Economy
Raegen Miller explains why education is important to economic recovery and what type of education provisions are in the current stimulus proposals.
February 2, 2009
Preparing for College, and Sharing How to Get There
Panelists at a CAP event offer ways to improve students’ preparation for and success in college.
February 2, 2009
Interactive Map: The Recovery, for Children
These three interactive maps show how the education provisions, health benefits, and tax cuts in the recovery package will help American children.
January 28, 2009
From Qualifications to Results
Robin Chait makes the case for a focus on teacher effectiveness, not qualifications, and how federal policy can make it happen.
January 28, 2009
Beyond the Beltway: 21st Century Education
This interactive map shows how the Recovery and Reinvestment Act would help our education system.
January 27, 2009
Improving Academic Preparation for College
Robin Chait and Andrea Venezia detail what we know about academic preparation for college and how state and federal policies can help.
January 27, 2009
Barriers to College Attainment: Lessons from Chicago
New report draws lessons from the Chicago public schools about how to increase enrollment and success in college.
January 14, 2009
Shooting Yourself in the Foot
Mid-year teacher layoffs undermine teacher quality, but Robin Chait and Raegen Miller outline ways to mitigate its worst effects.
December 16, 2008
Una Carrera Contra el Reloj
December 16, 2008
A Race Against the Clock
Report from Melissa Lazarín explores the value of expanded learning time for English language learners.
December 2, 2008
Teacher Turnover, Tenure Policies, and the Distribution of Teacher Quality
Report from Raegen Miller and Robin Chait explores ways to give low-income students more access to effective teachers.
November 20, 2008
Addressing the Teacher Qualification Gap
Dan Goldhaber explores the use and efficacy of incentives to reward teachers for touch assignments.
November 20, 2008
Financial Incentives for Hard-to-Staff Positions
CAP presents a report from Public Impact about how to handle hard-to-staff positions in education based on research from other sectors.
October 24, 2008
Tales of Teacher Absence
Report from Raegen Miller analyzes new data and finds patterns of teacher absence that provide insight into possible policy solutions to reduce absence rates.
October 17, 2008
Creating Postsecondary Pathways to Good Jobs for Young High School Dropouts
Linda Harris and Evelyn Ganzglass examine strategies that get high school dropouts the credentials they need for success in the workforce.
October 17, 2008
Federal Access Policies and Higher Education for Working Adults
Derek V. Price and Angela Bell outline core policy areas that can serve as a foundation for a progressive higher education agenda to benefit working adults.
October 14, 2008
More Equity and Less Red Tape
Report from Robert Gordon on rethinking the comparability and compliance provisions in Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.
October 8, 2008
Making Students More College-Ready and Colleges More Student-Ready
Louis Soares talks about why the United States is struggling in higher education, and how we can boost degree completion rates
September 15, 2008
Una Agenda Educativa para los Estudiantes Latinos
Ocho ideas que el gobierno federal puede usar para mejorar la educación de los niños hispanos por Melissa Lazarín.
September 15, 2008
An Education Agenda for Latino Students
Eight ideas from Melissa Lazarín that the federal government can implement to improve education for Hispanic children.
September 12, 2008
America: A Service Nation
On the 15th anniversary of AmeriCorps, Shirley Sagawa examines how far the program has come, and the opportunities for expanding national service.
September 2, 2008
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