Resources

CALIFORNIA SCHOOLS & RESEARCH

• California Dropout Research Project
• The Little Hoover Commission Report, Educational Governance & Accountability: Taking the Next Step.
• Holding Accountability to Account: How Scholarship and Experience in Other Fields Inform Exploration of Performance Incentives in Education
• A Report Card on Comprehensive Equity
• THE PRICE WE PAY: Economic and Social Consequences of Inadequate Education
• Building an Information System to Support Continuous Improvement in California Public Schools
• Governor’s Committee on Education Excellence’s Report
• High Schools for Equity: Policy Supports for Student Learning in Communities of Color
• California Teachers Association Institute for Teaching: Creating a Culture of High School Success – From the Inside Out, Appreciative Inquiry Student and Parent Interview Study
• The California Student Success Project Quick Facts
• Getting Down to Facts Summary of Finding
• Ed-Data: Education Data Partnership. Fiscal, Demographic, and Performance Data on California’s K-12 Schools.
• Transcript of Governor Schwarzenegger's State of the State Address
• “Closing the Achievement Gap.” Report of the Superintendent Jack O’Connell’s California P-16 Council
• School Restructuring in California

ECONOMIC OUTCOMES

• High school dropouts cost state billions
• PPIC 2025 Report
• Campaign for College Opportunity. "Return on Investment: Educational Choices and Demographic Change in California's Future."

FINANCE

• Proposition 98 Background and Information
• The SFDP (School Finance Redesign Project)
• Ed Source. “School Finance Highlights 2007-8.”
• Ed Source. “State and federal money is earmarked for special purposed.”
• The Public Policy Institute of California has recently developed and made publicly available a financial model to simulate the effects of alternative school funding formulas for California schools. A report based on the model, "Funding Formulas for California Schools", written by Heather Rose, Ria Sengupta, Jon Sonstelie, and Ray Reinhard.

INFORMATION

• California School Finder
• Data Quality Campaign
• RAND has just published a new report, "Toward a K-20 Student Unit Record Data System for California."
• Governor's Broadband Task Force Report. The education related recommendations start on page 74.
• Annenberg Institute for School Reform: Using Data for Decisions

HIGH-QUALITY SCHOOLING

• How the World's Best-Performing School Systems Come Out on Top.
• ETS: Educational Testing Service. "The Family: America's Smallest School"

TEACHERS

• Daniel Weintraub. “Education Next.” No Country for Strong Men. California unions tame the Terminator.
• Committee for Economic Development: Background Paper on Teacher Pensions
• Public Agenda Lessons Learned: New Teachers Talk About Their Jobs, Challenges and Long-Range Plans
• Teaching Quality in California: A New Perspective to Guide Policy
• The Teaching Penalty
• What Keeps Good Teachers in the Classroom?: Understanding and Reducing Teacher Turnover
• CFTL (The Center for the Future of Teaching and Learning). “The Status of the Teaching Profession 2007.”
• Public Agenda. "Working Without a Net: How New Teachers Describe Their First Year on the Job."
• Center for American Progress. “The Future of Teacher Compensation.”
• The Center for the Future of Teaching and Learning. “The Status of the Teaching Profession 2007”
• The Center for the Future of Teaching and Learning. “The Status of the Teaching Profession 2007, Summary Report and Fact Sheets.”

STATISTICS

• The Associated Press Poll
• 2008 KIDS COUNT Data Book Released
• NEA (National Education Association) "Rankings and Estimates."
• The National Center for Education Statistics. "Projections of Education Statistics to 2016."

GENERAL

• Ed Week. Glossary of Education Terms
• Ed Week. Issues A to Z