NEW! Practices Worthy of Attention examines 22 program, school, and district practices that showed promise of strengthening secondary mathematics teaching and learning.
Research and Evaluation Reports
A Study of Uncontrollable Variations in the Costs of Texas Public Education (2000/2002)
Examines the potential effects of different methods for adjusting Texas's Cost-of-Education Index. [access free online]
AmeriCorps for Community Engagement and Education: Evaluation for 1999-2000 (2001)
Describes a research-based early literacy intervention program operated in two East Austin elementary schools. [download free (pdf 1.3mb)]
An Analysis of Laboratory Safety in Texas (2001)
Presents the results of a survey the types and frequency of laboratory accidents in Texas public schools. [download free (pdf 2.4mb)]
Collaboration, Innovation, and Tenacity: Exemplary High-Enrollment AP Calculus Programs for Traditionally Underserved Students (2002)
Executive summary identifying structures and strategies that support the development or continuation of high levels of enrollment in Advanced Placement Calculus. [download free (pdf 20kb)]
Driven to Succeed: High-Performing, High-Poverty, Turnaround Middle Schools (2002)
Investigates how seven high-poverty middle schools demonstrated strong academic improvement. [access free online]
Equity-Driven, Achievement-Focused School Districts (2000)
Discusses how whole school districts (rather than just individual schools) and the Texas educational accountability system can play powerful roles in facilitating academic success for children of color and those of low socioeconomic status. [download free (pdf 221kb)]
Examination of Resource Allocation in Education: Connecting Spending to Student Performance (2003)
Describes a research study, conducted in partnership with the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory, that investigated the relationship between resource allocation and student performance. [available at the SEDL website]
Expecting Success: A Study of Five High Performing, High Poverty Schools (2002)
Study of five high-performing, high-poverty Texas elementary schools that demonstrate it is possible to meet and even surpass high standards while including students with disabilities in state assessments and in the state accountability system. [available at the CCSSO website]
Hope for Urban Education (1999)
National study of nine high-performing, high-poverty elementary schools. [available at the U.S. Department of Education website]
Improving Algebra I End-of-Course Exam Scores: Evidence from the Field (2000)
Study that looked at Texas schools with the largest improvements and largest declines in the percentage of students passing the Algebra I EOC exam from 1997 to 1998.
Executive summary [download free (pdf 149kb)]
Full report [download free (pdf 828kb)]
Manor New Technology High School: Summary of Selected Findings (2009)
A summary of selected findings from a case study in the Manor Independent School District, Manor, Texas. [download free (pdf 280kb)]
Opening Doors: Promising Lessons from Five Texas High Schools (2001)
Describes common characteristics of five high-poverty Texas high schools that have attained notable levels of success on selected academic indicators. [access free online]
Practices Worthy of Attention (2008)
Examines 22 program, school, and district practices that showed promise of strengthening secondary mathematics teaching and learning. [access free online]
Resource Allocation Practices and Student Achievement (2000)
Shows that high-performing districts spend more per pupil than other districts in several function and program areas. [download free (pdf 360kb)]
Special Education Exemption Rates and School Accountability Ratings in Selected Texas Public Schools for the 1997-98 and 1998-99 Academic Years (2000)
Finds evidence to suggest that schools with increases in their accountability ratings tended to have greater increases in their special education exemption rates. [download free (pdf 28kb)]
Studying Students Studying Calculus: A Look at the Lives of Minority Mathematics Students in College (1992)
By Uri Treisman. From The College Mathematics Journal, Vol. 23, No. 5, November 1992. [download free (pdf 1.4mb)]
Successful Texas Schoolwide Programs (1997)
Describes common characteristics of successful schoolwide programs in schools where a large percentage of the students live in poverty.
Research study results [download free (pdf 380kb)]
Self-study and planning guide [download free (pdf 382kb)]
Suggestions for technical assistance providers [download free (pdf 28kb)]
Texas Beginning Educator Support System: Evaluation Report for Year One, 1999-2000 (2001)
Indicates that preliminary reports suggest that the average retention rate for teachers served by TxBESS in 1999-2000 is higher than the average retention rate for beginning teachers in Texas. [download free (pdf 28kb)]
TEXTEAMS Professional Development Model: Evidence for Effectiveness (2003)
Profiles the Charles A. Dana Center's TEXTEAMS (Texas Teachers Empowered for Achievement in Mathematics and Science) professional development model and offers existing evidence that satisfies NCLB criteria for scientifically-based research. [download free (pdf 712kb)]
Urgency, Responsibility, Efficacy: Preliminary Findings of a Study of High-Performing Texas School Districts (1999)
discusses what happens at the district level to create, sustain, and support high levels of academic achievement in high-poverty schools. [download free (pdf 84kb)]
