Education Research Center

Just as students are always learning, so too are board members. CASB helps its members stay connected with the latest research and developments in education. Here you will find links to reports and research on a variety of topics relevant to your role as a board member.

Click the links below for full access to each item. If something is missing, or you’ve found a report you want to share, email Brad Stauffer, associate executive director of communications and board development.

Achievement

• Is Achievement Improving and Are Gaps Narrowing for Title I Students? (Center on Education Policy, August 2011)
• Back to school: How parent involvement affects student achievement (The Center for Public Education, August 2011)
• Discipline Policies, Successful Schools, and Racial Justice (National Education Policy Center, October 2011)
• More States Flag Potential Dropouts with Warning Data (EdWeek, November 2011)
• National Center for Education Statistics report (June 2011)
• A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform (National Commission on Excellence in Education, April 1983)
• The Power to Change: High Schools that Help All Students Achieve (The Education Trust, November 2005)
• The Silent Epidemic: Perspectives of High School Dropouts (Civic Enterprises with Peter D. Hart Research Associates for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, March 2006)
• Starting Out Right: Pre-K and Kindergarten: At a Glance. (The Center for Public Education, 2011)
• Turning Around the Nation's Lowest-Performing Schools: Five Steps Districts Can Take to Improve Their Chances of Success (Center for American Progress, January 2011)
• When the Best is Mediocre: Developed countries far outperform our most affluent suburbs (EducataionNext, 2012)
• Searching for the Reality of Virtual Schools
  (Center for Public Education, May 2012)

BOCES

• Evaluation of Colorado's Boards of Cooperative Educational Services (The Adams Group and Schoolhouse Communications, 2004)

Bullying

• Bullying May Contribute to Lower Test Scores (American Psychological Association, August 2011)

Consolidation

• An Exploration of District Consolidation (Augenblick, Palaich and Associates, Inc., May 2009)
• A Report on Colorado School District Organization (Colorado Department of Education, October 2002)

Educator Effectiveness

• The Principal Perspective (Center for Public Education, NSBA, April 2012)
• Gateways to the Principalship: State Power to Improve the Quality of School Leaders (Center for American Progress, October 2011)
• Restructuring Teacher Pay to Reward Excellence (National Council on Teacher Quality, December 2010
• State of the States: Trends and Early Lessons on Teacher Evaluation and Effectiveness Policies (National Council on Teacher Quality, October 2011)
• Stayers and Leavers: Early-Career Teacher Effectiveness and Attrition (Educational Researcher, August 2011)
• Student Teaching in the United States (National Council on Teacher Quality, July 2011)
• Teacher Pay for Performance: Experimental Evidence from the Project on Incentives in Teaching (National Center on Performance Incentives, September 2010)
• Unintended Consequences: The Case for Reforming the Staffing Rules in Urban Teachers Union Contracts (The New Teacher Project, 2005)

Extracurricular Activities

• High School Athletics Participation Survey (The National Federation of State High School Associations, 2011)

Healthy Students

• F as in Fat: How Obesity Threatens America's Future (Trust for America's Health, 2011)
• National Survey of American Attitudes on Substance Abuse XVI: Teens and Parents (The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University, August 2011)
• Student Drug Testing in the Context of Positive and Negative School Climates: Results from a National Survey (Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2011)

Higher Education and Post-Secondary Options

• The College Payoff: Education, Occupations, Lifetime Earnings (Georgetown University, Center on Education and the Workforce, August 2011)
• The Condition of College and Career Readiness (ACT, 2011)
• The High Cost of Low Graduation Rates (American Institutes for Research, 2011)
• Pathways to Prosperity: Meeting the Challenge of Preparing Young Americans for the 21st Century (Harvard Graduate School of Education, February 2011)

Leadership

• Learning from Leadership: Investigating the Links to Improved Student Learning (The Wallace Foundation, July 2010)
• Leadership in Smart Systems (Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, Fall 2009)

Legislation and Laws

• ESEA Briefing Book (Thomas B. Fordham Institute, April 2011)
• Strengthening Our Schools: A New Framework and Principals for Revising School Improvement Grants (California Congresswoman Judy Chu,

Opinion Polls

• Phi Delta Kappa/Gallup Poll: What Americans said about the public schools (2011)

Reform

• The Annenberg Challenge: Lessons and Reflections on Public School Reform (Carnegie Corporation of New York, March 2002)
• The Next Generation of Colorado Education: Colorado School Board Members Speak Out on Transforming Education for the 21st Century (Colorado Association of School Boards, 2007)
• Partnership is a Two-Way Street: What it Takes for Business to Help Drive School Reform (Hess, Downs, 2011)
• Strong Performers and Successful Reformers in Education: Lessons from PISA for the United States (OECD, 2010)
• Supporting and Scaling Change: Lessons from the First Round of the Investing in Innovation (i3) Program. (Bellwether Education partners, July 2011)
• Searching for the Reality of Virtual Schools
  (Center for Public Education, May 2012)

School Boards

• Governance in the Accountability Era (The National School Boards Association, The Thomas B. Fordham Institute and Iowa School Boards Foundatiton, 2010)

School Finance

• Center for Colorado's Economic Future website (Denver University)
• Closing Public Schools in Philadelphia: Lessons from Six Urban Districts (Philadelphia Research Initiative, October 2011.)
• The Declining Enrollment Study: A Comprehensive Review of Funding for Colorado Public Education (Pacey Economics Group for the Colorado Department of Education, March 2010)
• The Four-Day School Week (Colorado Department of Education, 2001-2002)
• Public Education Finances: 2009 (U.S. Census Bureau and U.S Department of Commerce, 2011)
• Strained Schools Face Bleak Future (Kober, Rentner, Center On Education Policy, June 2011)
• Teachers paid less in high-minority schools (Education Week, September 2011)

School Safety

• Reproducing Social Inequality through School Security: Effects of Race and Class on School Security Measures (Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, University of Delaware and Department of Criminology, Law and Society, University of California Irvine, 2011)

Special Education

• IDEA National Assessment Implementation Study (National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, July 2011)

Standards-Based Education

• The Common Core State Standards Studies (Educational Policy Improvement Center, 2011)
• Digging Deeper: Where Does the Public Stand on Standards-Based Education? (McREL, 2003)
• The Standards-Based Teaching/Learning Cycle (Colorado Coalition for Standards-Based Education, 2008)
• Reaching the Goal: The Applicability and Importance of the Common Core State Standards to College and Career Readiness (Educational Policy Improvement Center, 2011)

Statistics

• American Community Survey (US Census Bureau, October 2011)
• The Condition of Education (National Center for Education Statistics, 2011)
• Civil Rights Data Collection (US Department of Education, Civil Rights Division)
• Kids Count Survey 2011 (The Annie E. Casey Foundation, 2011)
• Survey of Income and Program Participation (US Census Bureau, 2011)

STEM

• The Opportunity Equation: Transforming Mathematics and Science Education for Citizenship and the Global Economy (Carnegie Corporation of New York-Institute for Advanced Study Commission on Mathematics and Science Education, June 2009)

Technology

• Learning in the 21st Century: 2011 Trends Update (Project Tomorrow and Blackboard, July 2011)

Vouchers

• Keeping Informed about School Vouchers: A Review of Major Developments and Research (Center on Education Policy, 2011)