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May 18, 2012
Fairfield County Business Journal

With new federal data showing continued, middle-of-the-pack performance by Connecticut schools, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy found the middle ground among competing interests for a landmark education law.

For once, teachers were not front and center in the debate.

May 8, 2012
Wall Street Journal

HARTFORD—In a sweeping education deal with lawmakers and teacher unions here, Gov. Dannel Malloy gave ground on some of his farthest-reaching proposals but contended the compromise was still a historic overhaul of public-school policy in a state that has proved resistant to change.

May 8, 2012
Hartford Courant

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said Monday night that his administration and lawmakers had reached an agreement on "meaningful education reform" — an agreement that he said adds nearly $100 million in new education spending and will help the state regain its competitive edge.

May 8, 2012
CT News Junkie

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and Democratic legislative leaders celebrated what they called an “historic” agreement on a sweeping education reform proposal that believe will help Connecticut erase its largest-in-the-nation achievement gap.

At a 10 p.m. press conference, Malloy told a packed room of reformers and leaders of at least one of the state’s teacher unions that the bill the Senate is expected to take up later this evening is just a beginning.

May 7, 2012
The Hanging Shad

Say this for Gov. Dannel Malloy, love his policies or hate them, he has largely gotten what he wants in his first year and a half in office. He pushed through the largest tax increase in state history after inheriting a $3 billion-plus disaster of a state budget; he was able to wring desperately needed concessions out of the state employee unions (after first failing); he instituted the “First Five” job-creation program; and won hard-fought approval for the Jackson Labs economic development project..

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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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