The federal Race to the Top initiative signified a shift in American education policy whereby
accountability efforts moved from the school to the teacher level. Using administrative data …

Local school boards have primary authority for running educational systems in the US, but
little is known empirically about the merits of this arrangement. State takeovers of struggling …

Most education agencies have implemented new teacher evaluation systems that promise to
improve teacher performance. Post-observation performance feedback is a theoretically …

Using a national database of state education policies related to the Every Student Succeeds
Act (ESSA), as well as data from surveys, interviews, and site visits, Adam Edgerton …

Using congressional testimony on teacher quality from 2003 to 2015 and analysis of 60 elite
interviews, we show how the political economy of knowledge production influences idea …

Federal incentives and requirements under the Obama administration spurred states to
adopt major reforms to their teacher evaluation systems. We examine the effects of these …

Cynthia Coburn, in her 2016 article in the American Journal of Education—“What's Policy
Got to Do With It?”—states that the field of policy implementation suffers from the propensity …

Policymakers have long sought to raise expectations for students through standards-based
reform. I examine the extent to which the Common Core State Content Standards (CC) …

Recruiting and retaining effective teachers is critical to school turnaround. However,
research on how improving educator quality in low-performing schools contributes to school …

Pushback against the perceived federal overreach into educational reform has led to
renewed calls for a return to local control of schools. In contrast to this general trend, there …