Policy Information Center Reports

Reports are listed in order of most recent publication. Click on report names for more information on each, including links to free PDFs when available. You can order print copies of reports from the Policy Information Center for the listed prices while supplies last.

• Errors of Measurement, Theory, and Public Policy
  by M. Kane (January 2010)
  $15.00
• Hispanicity and Educational Inequality: Risks, Opportunities and the Nation’s Future
  by M. Tienda (2009)
• National Education Standards: Getting Beneath the Surface
  by P.E. Barton (June 2009)
  $10.50
• Exploring What Works in Science Instruction: A Look at the Eighth-Grade Science Classroom
  by H. Braun, R. Coley, Y. Jia, and C. Trapani (May 2009)
  $15.00
• Parsing the Achievement Gap II
  by P.E. Barton and R. Coley (April 2009)
  $15.00
• Chasing the High School Graduation Rate: Getting the Data We Need and Using It Right
  by P.E. Barton (January 2009)
  $10.50
• Access to Success: Patterns of Advanced Placement Participation in U.S. High Schools
  by P. Handwerk, N. Tognatta, R.J. Coley, and D.H. Gitomer (July 2008)
  $15.00
• Windows on Achievement and Inequality
  By P.E. Barton and R. Coley (May 2008)
  $15.00
• Teacher Quality in a Changing Policy Landscape: Improvements in the Teacher Pool
  By D.H. Gitomer (December 2007)
  $15.00
• The Family: America’s Smallest School
  By P.E. Barton and R. Coley (September 2007)
  $15.00
• America's Perfect Storm: Three Forces Changing Our Nation's Future
  By I. Kirsch, H. Braun, K. Yamamoto, and A. Sum (January 2007)
  $15.00
• High School Reform and Work: Facing Labor Market Realities
  By P.E. Barton (June 2006)
  $15.00
• Locked Up and Locked Out: An Educational Perspective on the U.S. Prison Population
  By R.J. Coley and P.E. Barton (February 2006)
  $15.00
• Fragile Futures: Risk and Vulnerability Among Latino High-Achievers
  by P. Gándara (December 2005)
  $15.00
• Using Student Progress to Evaluate Teachers: A Primer on Value-Added Models
  By H. Braun (September 2005)
  $10.50
• One-Third of a Nation: Rising Dropout Rates and Declining Opportunities
  By P.E. Barton (February 2005)
  $15.00
• Characteristics of Minority Students Who Excel on the SAT® and in the Classroom
  By B. Bridgeman and C. Wendler (January 2005)
  $15.00
• Unfinished Business: More Measured Approaches in Standards-Based Reform
  By P.E. Barton (January 2005)
  $15.00
• Schooling, Statistics, and Poverty: Can We Measure School Improvement?
  By S.W. Raudenbush (November 2004)
  $15.00
• Pathways to Labor Market Success: The Literacy Proficiency of U.S. Adults
  By A. Sum, I. Kirsch, and K. Yamamoto (October 2004)
  $15.00
• The Fourth-Grade Reading Classroom
  By R.J. Coley and A.B. Coleman (September 2004)
  $15.00
• The Evolution of Educational Assessment: Considering the Past and Imagining the Future
  By J.W. Pellegrino (July 2004)
  $10.50
• Affirmative Action and Diversity: The Beginning of the End? Or the End of the Beginning?
  By M. Killenbeck (May 2004)
  $10.50
• A Human Capital Concern: The Literacy Proficiency of U.S. Immigrants
  By A. Sum, I. Kirsch, and K. Yamamoto (March 2004)
  $15.00
• Literacy and Health in America
  By R. Rudd, I. Kirsch, and K. Yamamoto (April 2004)
  $15.00 
• Growth in School Revisited: Achievement Gains from the Fourth to the Eighth Grade
  By R.J. Coley (November 2003)
  $15.00 
• Parsing the Achievement Gap: Baselines for Tracking Progress
  By P.E. Barton (October 2003)
  $15.00 
• Early Literacy Assessment Systems: Essential Elements
  By J. Jones (June 2003)
  $10.50
• Preparing Teachers Around the World
  By A. Wang, A.B. Coleman, R.J. Coley, and R. Phelps (May 2003)
  $15.00 
• Hispanics in Science and Engineering: A Matter of Assistance and Persistence
  By P.E. Barton (May 2003)
  $15.00 
• The Second Century of Ability Testing: Some Predictions and Speculations
  By S.E. Embretson (Feburary 2003)
  $3.00
• The Closing of the Education Frontier?
  By P.E. Barton (September 2002)
   $15.00
• Meeting the Need for Scientists, Engineers, and an Educated Citizenry in a Technological Society
  By P.E. Barton (May 2002)
  $15.00 
• Staying on Course in Education Reform
  By P.E. Barton (April 2002)
  $10.50
• An Uneven Start: Indicators of Inequality in School Readiness
  By R.J. Coley (March 2002)
  $15.00 
• The Twin Challenges of Mediocrity and Inequality: Literacy in the U.S. from an International Perspective
  By A. Sum, I. Kirsch, and R. Traggart (February 2002)
  $15.00. ED 472 136.
• Facing the Hard Facts in Education Reform
  By P.E. Barton (July 2001)
  $10.50
• Raising Achievement and Reducing Gaps: Reporting Progress Toward Goals for Academic Achievement in Mathematics
  By P.E. Barton (January 2002)
• Differences in the Gender Gap: Comparisons Across Racial/Ethnic Groups in Education and Work
  By R.J. Coley (February 2001)
  $10.50.  ED 451 222. 
• Understanding Educational Quality: Where Validity Meets Technology
  By E.L. Baker (November 2000)
  $2.50. ED 449 172.
• How Teaching Matters: Bringing the Classroom Back Into Discussions of Teacher Quality
  By H. Wenglinsky (October 2000)
  $10.50
• Teaching the Teachers: Different Settings, Different Results
  By H. Wenglinsky (August 2000)
   $10.50. ED 446 138.
• The American Community College Turns 100: A Look at its Students, Programs, and Prospects
  By R.J. Coley (March 2000)
   $10.50. ED 441 533.
• What Jobs Require: Literacy, Education, and Training, 1940-2006
  By P.E. Barton (January 2000)
  $10.50
• How Teachers Compare: The Prose, Document, and Quantitative Skills of America's Teachers
  By B. Bruschi and R.J. Coley (March 1999)
   $10.50. ED 429 106.
• Too Much Testing of the Wrong Kind; Too Little of the Right Kind in K-12 Education
  By P.E. Barton (March 1999)
   $9.50. ED 430 052.
• Order in the Classroom: Violence, Discipline, and Student Achievement
  By P.E. Barton, R.J. Coley, and H. Wenglinsky (October 1998)
  $10.50
• Does It Compute? The Relationship Between Educational Technology and Student Achievement in Mathematics
  By H. Wenglinsky (September 1998)
  $9.50
• Welfare: Indicators of Dependency
  By P.E. Barton (August 1998)
   $9.50. ED 424 263.
• Reinventing Assessment: Speculations on the Future of Large-Scale Educational Testing
  By R.E. Bennett (June 1998)
  $9.50. ED 424 254.
• Growth in School: Achievement Gains From the Fourth to the Eighth Grade
  By P.E. Barton and R.J. Coley (May 1998)
  $9.50. ED 422 331. 
• The Effect of Class Size on Achievement: What the Research Says
  By H. Wenglinsky (May 1998)
• Toward Inequality: Disturbing Trends in Higher Education
  By P.E. Barton (October 1997)
   $9.50. ED 415 276.
• National Tests and Education Reform: Are They Compatible?
  By L.V. Jones (November 1997)
  $1.50. ED 415 278.
• Measuring Achievement: What Does It Mean to Test for Robust Understanding?
  By L.A. Shepard (October 1997)
  $1.50.
• Students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities: Their Aspirations and Accomplishments
  By H. Wenglinsky (October 1997)
   $9.50. ED 415 239.
• Computers and Classrooms: The Status of Technology in U.S. Schools
  By R.J. Coley, J. Cradler, and P.K. Engel (May 1997)
   $9.50
• Diversity Among Asian American High School Students
  By H. Kim (1997)
   $9.50. ED 408 388.
• Occupations and the Printed Word
  By ETS Policy Information Center (August 1997)
  $13.00. ED 414 310. 
• When Money Matters: How Educational Expenditures Improve Student Performance and How They Don't
  By H. Wenglinsky (April 1997)
  $9.50
• Cooperative Education in High School: Promise and Neglect
  By P.E. Barton (July 1996)
  $2.50
• Captive Students: Education and Training in America's Prisons
  By P.E. Barton and R.J. Coley (1996)
  $9.50
• Writing Skill Assessment: Problems and Prospects
  By H.M. Breland (April 1996)
  $4.00
• Setting Performance Standards: Content, Goals, and Individual Differences
  By B.F. Green (1996)
  $1.50
• A Perspective on Student Employment
  By P.E. Barton (January 1996)
  $2.00
• Literacy and Dependency: The Literacy Skills of Welfare Recipients in the United States
  By P.E. Barton and L. Jenkins (1995)
  $9.50
• Assessment-Based Reform: Challenges to Educational Measurement
  By R.L. Linn (August 1995)
  $1.50
• Reaching Standards: A Progress Report on Mathematics
  By M.M. Lindquist, J.A. Dossey, and I.V.S. Mullis (1995)
  $9.50. ED 390 644. 
• The Intersection of Instruction and Assessment: The Classroom
  By ETS Policy Information Center (March 1995)
  $2.50
• Dreams Deferred: High School Dropouts in the United States
  By R.J. Coley (1995)
  $5.00. ED 392 818.
• Teaching for Diversity: Models for Expanding the Supply of Minority Teachers
  By A.M. Villegas, B.C. Clewell, B.T. Anderson, M.E. Goertz, M.F. Joy, B.A. Bruschi, and J.J. Irvine (1995)
   $6.50. ED 390 920.
• Learning by Degrees: Indicators of Performance in Higher Education
  By P.E. Barton and A. Lapointe (1994)
  $9.50. ED 379 323.
• What Americans Study: Revisited
  By R.J. Coley (1994)
   $9.50. ED 373 095.
• Becoming Literate About Literacy
  By P.E. Barton (1994)
  $7.50. ED 372 114. 
• Testing in America's Schools
  By P.E. Barton and R.J. Coley (1994)
  $7.50. ED 366 616.
• Indicators of the School-to-Work Transition
  By P.E. Barton (April 1994)
  $2.50. ED 415 277.
• The Influence of Minimum Competency Tests on Teaching and Learning 
  By N. Fredericksen (March 1994)
   $2.50. ED 369 820.
• Training to Be Competitive: Developing the Skills and Knowledge of the Workforce
  By P.E. Barton (1993)
   $6.50, ED 359 227.
• Education Issues of the 1990s
  By ETS Policy Information Center (1993)
   $8.25. ED 383 713.
• Performance Assessment Sampler
  By ETS Policy Information Center (1993)
  $11.25. ED 361 371. 
• America's Smallest School: The Family
  By P.E. Barton and R.J. Coley (1992)
  ED 349 320
• Linking Educational Assessments: Concepts, Issues, Methods, and Prospects
  By R. Mislevy (1992)
  $6.50. ED 353 302.
• National Standards for Education: What They Might Look Like
  By ETS Policy Information Center (1992)
  $4.75. ED 356 240.
• Considerations for National Examinations
  By A.E. Beaton (1990)
  $2.50. ED 356 238.
• What Americans Should Know: Information Needs for Setting Education Goals
  By P.E. Barton (1991)
  $3.50. ED 356 239.
• The State of Inequality
  By P.E. Barton, R.J. Coley, and M.E. Goertz (1991)
  $4.50. ED 340 716.
• Performance at the Top: From Elementary Through Graduate School
  By P.E. Barton and R.J. Coley (1991)
  $6.00. ED 333 052.
• The Education Reform Decade
  By P.E. Barton, R.J. Coley (1990)
  $3.50. ED 326 549.
• From School to Work
  By P.E. Barton (1990)
  $3.50. ED 320 947.
• Skill Employers Need: Time to Measure Them?
  By P.E. Barton (1990)
  $3.50. ED 356 237.
• Choice in Montclair, New Jersey
  By B.C. Clewell and M.F. Joy (1990)
  ED 314 493
• What Americans Study
  By M.E. Goertz (1989)
  $3.50. ED 312 271.
• State Education Indicators: Measured Strides, Missing Steps
  By S.S. Kaagan and R.J. Coley (1989)
  $3.75. ED 311 573.
• Information for National Performance Goals for Education: A Workbook
  By ETS Policy Information Center (1989)
  $3.50. ED 356 236.