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January 18, 2012
New Haven Register

 Connecticut lost ground in the annual ranking of state laws that govern charter schools, mainly because other states such as Maine and New Mexico passed more progressive reforms in the past year.

January 15, 2012
Hartford Courant

 When Gov. Dannel P. Malloy put education reform on the front burner for 2012, he caught a wave of public sentiment that has been building for a couple of years in every corner of the state. Everybody from superintendents and the state's largest teachers union to business leaders, advocacy groups, parents and political leaders wants to improve the state's public schools.

January 15, 2012
CT Now / Fox 61

"Major education reforms for Connecticut are planned for this year, and I'm here with Michael Sharpe, Director of Jamoke Academy, one of the fastest rising charter schools in Connecticut, in Hartford, [and] Patrick Riccards, the new CEO/President of ConnCAN..."

January 8, 2012
CT News Junkie

By Patrick Riccards, CEO, ConnCAN

Last week, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy made a passionate case for why we all must commit to education reform in 2012. Speaking at his education reform summit, the governor made clear that school improvement is a team effort, requiring the involvement of all stakeholders.

January 4, 2012
Connecticut Post

About the only top slot the constitution state still clings to is "largest achievement gap in the nation."

So educational reform advocates say much is riding on Malloy's pledge that 2012 will be the year of education reform.

Malloy is hosting an Education Workshop Thursday at Central Connecticut State University in New Britain. Many invited are convinced the policies that begin to take shape there may lead to legislation that can transform the state's failing schools and ultimately assist in growing the economy.

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Research Roundup Archive

ConnCAN Research Roundup, August 2011

Spotlight Research Study: Design of the Rhode Island School Funding Formula: Toward a Coherent System of Allocating State Aid to Public Schools | Kenneth K. Wong | Center for American Progress | August 2011

Research Roundup, July 2011

Spotlight Research: CMT and CAPT results are out; there’s still much more work to be done | ConnCAN | July 2011

Research Roundup, June 2011

Spotlight Research: Class Size: What Research Says and What It Means for State Policy | Grover J. Whitehurst and Matthew M. Chingos | The Brookings Institution | May 11, 2011

May 2011 Research Roundup

Spotlight Study: Two Studies on the Link Between Teacher Evaluation and Student Achievement

  1. Evaluating Teacher Effectiveness. Thomas J. Kane, Eric S. Taylor, John H Tyler, and Amy L. Wooten. Education Next. Summer 2011. Vol. 11 No. 3.
  2. The Effect of Evaluation on Performance: Evidence from Longitudinal Student Achievement Data of Mid-Career Teachers. Eric S. Taylor and John H. Tyler. National Bureau of Economic Research. March 2011.
April 2011 Research Roundup

Spotlight Study: Double Jeopardy: How Third-Grade Reading Skills and Poverty Influence High School Graduation

March 2011 Research Roundup

Spotlight Study: The Case Against Quality-Blind Teacher Layoffs | The New Teacher Project | February 2011

February 2011 Research Roundup

Spotlight Study: Blueprint for Change in Connecticut: 2010 State Teacher Policy Yearbook | National Council on Teacher Quality | January 2011

January 2011 Education Research Roundup

Spotlight Study: Evaluating Teachers: The Economic Value of Higher Teacher Quality

Hanushek, Eric A. National Bureau of Economic Research. December 2010.
 

ConnCAN Education Research Roundup, December 2010

Spotlight Study: Evaluating Teachers: The Important Role of Value-Added

Susan Glazerman, Susanna Loeb, Dan Golhaber, Douglas Staiger, Stephen Raudenbush, and Grover Whitehurst. The Brookings Institution. November 17, 2010.

ConnCAN Education Research Roundup, November 2010

 Spotlight Study: Report from the Connecticut Commission on Educational Achievement

ConnCAN Education Research Roundup, October 2010

 Spotlight Study: ConnCAN Voter Survey
DHM Research. October 2010.

ConnCAN Education Research Roundup, September 2010

Spotlight Study: “Time for Change: The 42nd Annual Phi Delta Kappa/Gallup Poll of the Public’s Attitudes Toward the Public Schools"
William J. Bushaw and Shane J. Lopez. September 2010.

August 2010 Research Roundup

 Spotlight Study: “The State of State Standards and the Common Core in 2010"
Fordham Institute. Sheila Byrd Carmichael, Gabrielle Martino, Kathleen Porter-Magee, and W. Stephen Wilson. July 2010.

ConnCAN Education Research Roundup, July 2010

 Spotlight Study: “Student Characteristics and Achievement in 22 KIPP Schools"

Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. Christina Clark Tuttle, Bing-ru Te, Ira Nichols-Barrer, Brian P. Gill & Philip Gleason, June 2010

ConnCAN Education Research Roundup, June 2010

 Spotlight Study: “Charter School Funding: Inequity Persists"
Ball State University. Meagan Batdorff, Larry Maloney, Jay, May 2010.

ConnCAN Education Research Roundup, May 2010

 Spotlight Study: “A Smarter Teacher Layoff System: How Quality-Based Layoffs Can Help Schools Keep Great Teachers in Tough Economic Times"

The New Teacher Project, March 2010

ConnCAN Education Research Roundup, January 2010

Spotlight Study: “The State of Connecticut Public Education: A 2009-2010 Report Card for Connecticut Public Schools and Public Policies," ConnCAN, Tori Truscheit, January 2010 

ConnCAN Education Research Roundup, October 2009

Spotlight Study: “Teaching for a Living: How Teachers See the Profession Today,” Public Agenda, Jean Johnson et al., October 2009

ConnCAN Education Research Roundup, September 2009

Spotlight Study: “How New York City’s Charter Schools Affect Achievement,” New York City Charter Schools Evaluation Project, Caroline Hoxby et al, September 2009.

ConnCAN Education Research Roundup, August 2009

Spotlight Study: “Interpreting ‘Race to the Top’: TNTP Summary & Analysis of USDE Draft Guidelines,” The New Teacher Project, August 2009.

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