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.

• More Than a Dream: Expanding Educational Achievement in the Latino Community
  By L.A. Ubiñas (September 2012)
• State Pre-K Assessment Policies: Issues and Status
   By D.J. Ackerman & R.J. Coley (February 2012)
• Challenges and Opportunities: My Personal Journey
  By R.F. Moran (September 2011)
• The Mission of the High School: A New Consensus of the Purposes of Public Education?
  By P.E. Barton and R.J. Coley (September 2011)
• Access/Acceso: Rising to the Challenge of Improving Higher Education Opportunities for Latinos
  By C.B. Reed and J. Scott (October 2010)
• The Black-White Achievement Gap: When Progress Stopped
  By P.E. Barton and R.J. Coley (July 2010)
• Errors of Measurement, Theory, and Public Policy
  By M. Kane (January 2010)
• Developing High-Potential Youth Program: A Return On Investment Study for U.S. Programs
  By C.M. Millet and M. Nettles (December 2009)
• 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)
• 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)
• Parsing the Achievement Gap II
  By P.E. Barton and R. Coley (April 2009)
• Chasing the High School Graduation Rate: Getting the Data We Need and Using It Right
  By P.E. Barton (January 2009)
• 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)
• Windows on Achievement and Inequality
  By P.E. Barton and R. Coley (May 2008)
• Teacher Quality in a Changing Policy Landscape: Improvements in the Teacher Pool
  By D.H. Gitomer (December 2007)
• The Family: America’s Smallest School
  By P.E. Barton and R. Coley (September 2007)
• America's Perfect Storm: Three Forces Changing Our Nation's Future
  By I. Kirsch, H. Braun, K. Yamamoto, and A. Sum (January 2007)
• High School Reform and Work: Facing Labor Market Realities
  By P.E. Barton (June 2006)
• Locked Up and Locked Out: An Educational Perspective on the U.S. Prison Population
  By R.J. Coley and P.E. Barton (February 2006)
• Fragile Futures: Risk and Vulnerability Among Latino High-Achievers
  by P. Gándara (December 2005)
• Using Student Progress to Evaluate Teachers: A Primer on Value-Added Models
  By H. Braun (September 2005)
• One-Third of a Nation: Rising Dropout Rates and Declining Opportunities
  By P.E. Barton (February 2005)
• Characteristics of Minority Students Who Excel on the SAT® and in the Classroom
  By B. Bridgeman and C. Wendler (January 2005)
• Unfinished Business: More Measured Approaches in Standards-Based Reform
  By P.E. Barton (January 2005)
• Schooling, Statistics, and Poverty: Can We Measure School Improvement?
  By S.W. Raudenbush (November 2004)
• Pathways to Labor Market Success: The Literacy Proficiency of U.S. Adults
  By A. Sum, I. Kirsch, and K. Yamamoto (October 2004)
• The Fourth-Grade Reading Classroom
  By R.J. Coley and A.B. Coleman (September 2004)
• The Evolution of Educational Assessment: Considering the Past and Imagining the Future
  By J.W. Pellegrino (July 2004)
• Affirmative Action and Diversity: The Beginning of the End? Or the End of the Beginning?
  By M. Killenbeck (May 2004)
• A Human Capital Concern: The Literacy Proficiency of U.S. Immigrants
  By A. Sum, I. Kirsch, and K. Yamamoto (March 2004)
• Literacy and Health in America
  By R. Rudd, I. Kirsch, and K. Yamamoto (April 2004)
• Growth in School Revisited: Achievement Gains from the Fourth to the Eighth Grade
  By R.J. Coley (November 2003)
• Parsing the Achievement Gap: Baselines for Tracking Progress
  By P.E. Barton (October 2003)
• Early Literacy Assessment Systems: Essential Elements
  By J. Jones (June 2003)
• Preparing Teachers Around the World
  By A. Wang, A.B. Coleman, R.J. Coley, and R. Phelps (May 2003)
• Hispanics in Science and Engineering: A Matter of Assistance and Persistence
  By P.E. Barton (May 2003)
• The Second Century of Ability Testing: Some Predictions and Speculations
  By S.E. Embretson (February 2003)
• The Closing of the Education Frontier?
  By P.E. Barton (September 2002)
• Meeting the Need for Scientists, Engineers, and an Educated Citizenry in a Technological Society
  By P.E. Barton (May 2002)
• Staying on Course in Education Reform
  By P.E. Barton (April 2002)
• An Uneven Start: Indicators of Inequality in School Readiness
  By R.J. Coley (March 2002)
• 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)
• Facing the Hard Facts in Education Reform
  By P.E. Barton (July 2001)
• 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)
• Understanding Educational Quality: Where Validity Meets Technology
  By E.L. Baker (November 2000)
• How Teaching Matters: Bringing the Classroom Back Into Discussions of Teacher Quality
  By H. Wenglinsky (October 2000)
• Teaching the Teachers: Different Settings, Different Results
  By H. Wenglinsky (August 2000)
• The American Community College Turns 100: A Look at its Students, Programs, and Prospects
  By R.J. Coley (March 2000)
• What Jobs Require: Literacy, Education, and Training, 1940-2006
  By P.E. Barton (January 2000)
• How Teachers Compare: The Prose, Document, and Quantitative Skills of America's Teachers
  By B. Bruschi and R.J. Coley (March 1999)
• Too Much Testing of the Wrong Kind; Too Little of the Right Kind in K-12 Education
  By P.E. Barton (March 1999)
• Order in the Classroom: Violence, Discipline, and Student Achievement
  By P.E. Barton, R.J. Coley, and H. Wenglinsky (October 1998)
• Does It Compute? The Relationship Between Educational Technology and Student Achievement in Mathematics
  By H. Wenglinsky (September 1998)
• Welfare: Indicators of Dependency
  By P.E. Barton (August 1998)
• Reinventing Assessment: Speculations on the Future of Large-Scale Educational Testing
  By R.E. Bennett (June 1998)
• Growth in School: Achievement Gains From the Fourth to the Eighth Grade
  By P.E. Barton and R.J. Coley (May 1998)
• 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)
• National Tests and Education Reform: Are They Compatible?
  By L.V. Jones (November 1997)
• Measuring Achievement: What Does It Mean to Test for Robust Understanding?
  By L.A. Shepard (October 1997)
• Students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities: Their Aspirations and Accomplishments
  By H. Wenglinsky (October 1997)
• Computers and Classrooms: The Status of Technology in U.S. Schools
  By R.J. Coley, J. Cradler, and P.K. Engel (May 1997)
• Diversity Among Asian American High School Students
  By H. Kim (1997)
• Occupations and the Printed Word
  By ETS Policy Information Center (August 1997)
• When Money Matters: How Educational Expenditures Improve Student Performance and How They Don't
  By H. Wenglinsky (April 1997)
• Cooperative Education in High School: Promise and Neglect
  By P.E. Barton (July 1996)
• Captive Students: Education and Training in America's Prisons
  By P.E. Barton and R.J. Coley (1996)
• Writing Skill Assessment: Problems and Prospects
  By H.M. Breland (April 1996)
• Setting Performance Standards: Content, Goals, and Individual Differences
  By B.F. Green (1996)
• A Perspective on Student Employment
  By P.E. Barton (January 1996)
• Literacy and Dependency: The Literacy Skills of Welfare Recipients in the United States
  By P.E. Barton and L. Jenkins (1995)
• Assessment-Based Reform: Challenges to Educational Measurement
  By R.L. Linn (August 1995)
• Reaching Standards: A Progress Report on Mathematics
  By M.M. Lindquist, J.A. Dossey, and I.V.S. Mullis (1995)
• The Intersection of Instruction and Assessment: The Classroom
  By ETS Policy Information Center (March 1995)
• Dreams Deferred: High School Dropouts in the United States
  By R.J. Coley (1995)
• 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)
• Learning by Degrees: Indicators of Performance in Higher Education
  By P.E. Barton and A. Lapointe (1994)
• What Americans Study: Revisited
  By R.J. Coley (1994)
• Becoming Literate About Literacy
  By P.E. Barton (1994)
• Testing in America's Schools
  By P.E. Barton and R.J. Coley (1994)
• Indicators of the School-to-Work Transition
  By P.E. Barton (April 1994)
• The Influence of Minimum Competency Tests on Teaching and Learning
  By N. Fredericksen (March 1994)
• Training to Be Competitive: Developing the Skills and Knowledge of the Workforce
  By P.E. Barton (1993)
• Education Issues of the 1990s
  By ETS Policy Information Center (1993)
• Performance Assessment Sampler
  By ETS Policy Information Center (1993)
• America's Smallest School: The Family
  By P.E. Barton and R.J. Coley (1992
• Linking Educational Assessments: Concepts, Issues, Methods, and Prospects
  By R. Mislevy (1992)
• National Standards for Education: What They Might Look Like
  By ETS Policy Information Center (1992)
• Considerations for National Examinations
  By A.E. Beaton (1990)
• What Americans Should Know: Information Needs for Setting Education Goals
  By P.E. Barton (1991)
• The State of Inequality
  By P.E. Barton, R.J. Coley, and M.E. Goertz (1991)
• Performance at the Top: From Elementary Through Graduate School
  By P.E. Barton and R.J. Coley (1991)
• The Education Reform Decade
  By P.E. Barton, R.J. Coley (1990
• From School to Work
  By P.E. Barton (1990)
• Skill Employers Need: Time to Measure Them?
  By P.E. Barton (1990)
• Choice in Montclair, New Jersey
  By B.C. Clewell and M.F. Joy (1990)
• What Americans Study
  By M.E. Goertz (1989)
• State Education Indicators: Measured Strides, Missing Steps
  By S.S. Kaagan and R.J. Coley (1989
• Information for National Performance Goals for Education: A Workbook
  By ETS Policy Information Center (1989)