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Rappaport Institute Policy Notes Database
Education
For more information on each entry, please click the title of each dataset.
| A Demonstration That School-Based Required Service Does Not Deter – But Heightens – Volunteerism |
| Accountability and Leadership at the School Level: Elementary Principals' Efforts to Improve Teaching and Learning |
| Achievement in Charter Schools and Regular Public Schools in the United States: Understanding the Differences |
| Adding Value: Perceptions of Boston Educators Regarding Girls' Participation in Math, Science and Technology |
| Amenity-Based Housing Affordability Indexes |
| An Analysis of the State Public Education Aid Funding Mechanism Established by the Massachusetts Education Reform Act |
| An Entrepreneurial University: The Transformation of Tufts 1976-2002 |
| Better Management for Better Schools: A Review of the Structure and Functions of the Central Office of the Cambridge Public Schools |
| Boston Among 35 American Cities |
| Boston Benefits as College Capital: A Decade of Enrollment in Boston's Colleges and Universities |
| Boston in Focus: A Profile from Census 2000 |
| Bridging Difference: Interaction and Learning Through Civic Work |
| Changing the Boston School Choice Mechanism |
| Changing Women: An Ethnographic Study of Homeless Mothers and Popular Education |
| City-Suburban Desegregation: Parent and Student Perspectives in Metropolitan Boston |
| Creating Communities of Learning: Public Education in Greater Boston |
| Emergency Management: The Relationship Between Harvard University and the City of Cambridge |
| Evidence for Action: Strengthening After-School Programs for All Children and Youth |
| Faith in our Schools? A Study in Portraiture of Three Teachers of Religion |
| Gaining Ground: Value-Added Analysis for Massachusetts |
| Getting off to a Good Start |
| Head of the Class: Characteristics of Higher Performing Urban High Schools in Massachusetts |
| How Important are Classroom Peer Effects? Evidence from Boston's Metco Program |
| Incentives, Capacity, and Implementation: Evidence from Massachusetts Education Reform |
| Keeping Policy Churn Off the Agenda: Urban Education and Civic Capacity |
| Learning from the Test: Improving the Teaching of English Language Arts Using Systematic Diagnosis of MCAS Item-level Information |
| Massachusetts Charter Schools and Their Feeder Discricts: A Demoraphic Analysis |
| Massachusetts Tech Prep: Development of Programs and Outcomes for 1998 Graduates |
| Mayoral Influence, New Regimes, and Public School Governance |
| MCAS Scores and the Adams Scholarship: A Policy Failure |
| Measuring Disparities in Non-School Costs and Revenue Capacity Among Massachusetts Cities and Towns |
| On the Demand for City Living |
| Overrepresentation of Bilingual and Poor Children in Special Education Classes: A Continuing Problem |
| Parents, Choice, and Some Foundations for Education Reform in Massachusetts |
| Property Tax Limits and Local Fiscal Behavior: Did Massachusetts Cities and Towns Spend Too Little on Town Services Under Proposition 2½? |
| ProTech, a School-to-Career Program in Boston: Its Strengths and Limitations from the Perspectives of its Graduates |
| Reaching Capacity: A Blueprint for the State Role in Improving Low Performing Schools and Districts |
| Report of the 2004 Boston Youth Survey |
| Rethinking the Allocation of Teaching Resources |
| Robin Hood and His Not-So-Merry Plan: Capitalization and the Self-Destruction of Texas' School Finance Equalization Plan |
| School Based Programs: Lessons Learned from CATCH, Planet Health, and Not-On-Tobacco |
| School Choice: An Experimental Study |
| Separate, Unequal, and Stigmatized |
| Standards-Based Education Reform in the Computer Age: Lessons from Boston's Murphy School |
| Support for Condom Availability and Needle Exchange Programs Among Massachusetts Adults, 1997 |
| Supporting Education Reform: Mayoral and Corporate Paths (Boston and Pittsburgh) |
| Tabulating Turnover in the Boston Public Schools: A Data-Driven Approach to Teacher Mobility |
| The Boston Public School Match |
| The Chelsea Experiment |
| The Excel Academy Charter Middle School |
| The Missing Link |
| The Myth of Home Rule: Local Power in Greater Boston |
| The New Division of Labor: How Computers Are Creating the Next Job Market |
| The New Face of Greater Boston: Meeting the Needs of Immigrants |
| The Potential for Pedagogical Expertise in a Whole School Early Literacy Model |
| The Principal and the Academic Imperative |
| The Rise of the Skilled City |
| Understanding the School Experiences of Six Learning Adaptive Behavior Students in a Boston Public Middle School |
| Why Do Households Without Children Support Local Public Schools? |
| Writing Over Time in Urban Schools |
| Youth Voices as Change Agents: Moving Beyond the Medical Model in School-Based Health Center Practice |
 More information about these issues is available at IssueSource, an online database produced by MassInc and the State House News Service that "gives citizens basic, background information on Massachusetts politics and policy news stories."
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