Category Archives: Studies
The National Education Goals Reports 1991-1999
The National Education Goals Reports provide a trove of education data. Reading them also gives the researcher a feel for the big subjects of the tumultuous federal schooling debates of the 1990s. Additionally, the movement to establish education standards grew … Continue reading
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Beatrice F. Birman et al., The Current Operation of the Chapter 1 Program (1987)
This study of Chapter 1 (Title I) was commissioned by by the Department of Education’s Office of Educational Research and Improvement (formerly the National Institute of Education). The report was produced by Department of Education staff and researchers at private sector … Continue reading
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Survey of Elementary Schools’ Curricula (1925)
This is a wonderful survey completed by Jesse Knowlton Flanders in 1925. His research question is simple: What are the 48 states (yes, 48) requiring students to study? Flanders utilized statutes from each state to derive his findings. Not surprisingly, … Continue reading
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Federal Aid for School Construction (1955)
This study was written by Charles Quattlebaum of the Legislative Reference Service, the predecessor to the Congressional Research Service, and it was published by Congress in February 1955. It reviews the history of federal funding for school buildings, but spends … Continue reading
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Andrew Rotherham, Toward Performance-Based Federal Education Funding (1999)
This April 1999 study was written by Andrew Rotherham for the Progressive Policy Institute. Rotherham served as Special Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy during the Clinton administration. He went on to found Education Sector, a thinktank, and Bellwether Education … Continue reading
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