Browse DESE Reports by Report Type: Education Policy Briefs

2020

• Targeted Linguistic Simplification of Science Test Items for English Learners (June 2020)

• Exploring MA Special Education Data (February 2020)

2019

• A First Look at School-Level Expenditures (December 2019)

• CAP Executive Summary (October 2019)

2018

• Impact of the Massachusetts School Choice Program (December 2018)

• Adoption, Implementation, and Effects of Curriculum Materials (October 2018)

• What is the profile of an English learner dropout in Massachusetts? (October 2018)

• Can Successful Schools Replicate? Scaling Up Boston's Charter Sector (March 2018)

2017

• CAP survey brief (December 2017)

• Perspectives from Year 1 of Cap Implementation (December 2017)

• Class Size and Resource Allocation Policy Brief — Online Appendix (December 2017)

• Class Size and Resource Allocation Policy Brief (December 2017)

• Access to Postsecondary Schooling and the GED: New Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Massachusetts (November 2017)

• Teacher Equity Gaps in Massachusetts (October 2017)

2015

• Springfield Public Schools' Effective Educator Coach Program (October 2015)

• District Assessment Practices (August 2015)

• Promising Practices to Build Evaluator Capacity (July 2015)

• Promising Approaches to the Development and Implementation of District-Determined Measures (July 2015)

• Shrewsbury Public Schools' Approach to Using Evaluation Data in Human Resources Decision-Making (July 2015)

• Lawrence Public Schools: Guidance for Developing and Supporting Educator Plans (July 2015)

• Brockton Public Schools' Use of Professional Development to Support Evidence Collection (July 2015)

2014

• Charters Without Lotteries: Testing Takeovers in New Orleans and Boston (December 2014)

• Research Brief: Implementation of the New Educator Evaluation System in Massachusetts (August 2014)

• Intensive College Counseling and the College Enrollment Choices of Low Income Students (August 2014)

• Promise and Paradox: Measuring Students' Non-Cognitive Skills and the Impact of Schooling (July 2014)

• Race to the Top College and Career Readiness Evaluation Brief — Pre-AP (June 2014)

• Flaking Out: Student Absences and Snow Days as Disruptions of Instructional Time (June 2014)

• Using Survival Analysis to Understand Graduation of Students with Disabilities (June 2014)

• Teaching to the Student: Charter School Effectiveness in Spite of Perverse Incentives (May 2014)

• The Academic Impact of Career and Technical Education in Massachusetts (March 2014)

• Research Brief: Early Implementation of the Massachusetts Educator Evaluation Framework  (January 2014)

• Cognitive Skills, Student Achievement Tests, and Schools (January 2014)

2013

• Income-Based Inequality in Educational Outcomes: Learning from State Longitudinal Data Systems (November 2013)

• Charter School Demand and Effectiveness: A Boston Update (November 2013)

• Merit Aid, College Quality and College Completion: Massachusetts' Adams Scholarship as an In-Kind Subsidy (November 2013)

• Expanded Learning Time Schools Collaborative Planning: Issue Brief (June 2013)

• Expanded Learning Time Schools Time Use: Issue Brief (April 2013)

• Expanded Learning Time Schools Enrichment: Issue Brief (April 2013)

• School Redesign Grant; Management Briefing Memo (February 2013)

2009

• School District Consolidation in Massachusetts, by Sarah Carleton, Christine Lynch, and Robert O'Donnell (November 2009)