The Texas Schools Project and its partners - Duke University,
Stanford University, the University of Florida, the University
of Missouri, and the University of Washington will work together
under a grant awarded to the Urban Institute by the U. S. Department
of Education. CALDER is one of the federally funded national
education research centers.
The purpose of CALDER is to inform state and local education
policy through analysis based primarily on state-specific administrative
data on individual students and teachers over time. The research
will focus most centrally on how 1) teacher policies (e.g.,
hiring, compensation, and certification), 2) governance policies
(e.g., accountability, choice) and 3) social and economic community
conditions (e.g., changing student demographics, resources)
affect outcomes for teachers (e.g., who teaches and where) and
students (e.g., academic achievement, graduation rates). The
ultimate interest is in student outcomes with particular attention
to how outcomes differ for subgroups of the population. Given
the major role that teachers play in determining student outcomes,
the primary focus of our research effort will be on teachers,
especially who teaches which students and the determinants of
teacher quality, as evidenced by student achievement gains.
CALDER will make significant technical contributions to the
field as we engage these new rich databases to help guide policymaking.
These databases are comprehensive within a state and will allow
us to disentangle the effects of different policy measures.
By exploring similar questions across different states we can
also increase confidence in our results.
For more information see CALDER.
Postsecondary
Access and Success for Minorities
A generous
grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has allowed expansion
of the data to include additional cohorts. Increasing the breadth
of the panel enables the TSP to conduct high quality research
related to closing the college going and success gaps among
the drivers populations of Texas.
Charter
Schools
Under a
grant from the Smith-Richardson Foundation, the TSP is conducting
a study of the effectiveness of charter schools.
Special
Education
The Smith-Richardson
Foundation has provided funding for a first of its kind study
of the effectiveness of special education programs.
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