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Beyond the Numbers: Understanding California's High School Dropouts (Technical Report) July 2008
Reshaping Teacher Policies to Improve Student Achievement (Policy Brief 08-3) March 2008
Building an Information System to Support Continuous Improvement in California Public Schools (Policy Brief 08-2) February 2008
Meeting the Challenge: Performance Trends in California Schools (Policy Brief 08-1) February 2008
Beyond Access:  How the First Semester Matters for Community College Students’ Aspirations and Persistence (Policy Brief 07-2) October 2007
Parallel Play - Preschool and K-12 Finance Reform in New Jersey and Texas (Working Paper 07-3) July 2007
Making Sense of Career-Technical Education: Options for California. (Policy Brief 07-1) April 2007
California Principals’ Resources: Acquisition, Deployment, and Barriers (Technical Report) April 2007
The Unequal Opportunity to Learn in California's Schools: Crafting Standards to Track Quality (Working Paper 07-2) February 2007
Community Voices: California Preschool Directors Speak on Policy Options (Working Paper 07-1) January 2007
Crucial Issues in California Education 2006: Rekindling Reform November 2006
Snapshots of Reform: District Efforts to Raise Achievement across Diverse Communities in California. (Working Paper 06-2) October 2006
State Strategies To Improve Low-Performing Schools: California's High Priority School Grants Program (Technical Report) September 2006
Is the No Child Left Behind Act Working? The Reliability of How States Track Achievement. (Working Paper 06-1) June 2006
Listening to Teachers (Technical Report) May 2005
How to Expand and Improve Preschool in California: Ideas, Evidence, and Policy Options. (Working Paper 05-1) March 2005
Preschool for California's Children: Promising Benefits, Unequal Access. (Policy Brief 04-3) September 2004
Categorical School Finance: Who Gains, Who Loses? (Working Paper 04-2) July 2004
Improving the Transition from High School to Postsecondary Education. (Working Paper 04-1) April 2004
Voices from the Field: Educators Respond to Accountability (Technical Report) February 2004
Assessing California's Accountability System: Successes, Challenges, and Opportunities for Improvement. (Policy Brief 04-2) February 2004
Child Care in Poor Communities: Early Learning Effects of Type, Quality, and Stability. (Technical Report) February 2004
Advancing the Early Childhood Workforce: Implementation of Training and Retention Initiatives in the Bay Area. (Policy Brief 04-1) January 2004
Penalizing Diverse Schools? Similar test scores, but different students, bring federal sanctions. (Policy Brief 03-4) December 2003
A Case Study of San Francisco County CARES: Year 2 Qualitative Implementation Study (Working Paper 03-6) November 2003
A Case Study of Alameda County Child Development Corps: Year 2 Qualitative Implementation Study (Working Paper 03-5) November 2003
Targeting Investments for Universal Preschool. Which Families to Serve First? Who Will Respond? (Working Paper 03-1) 2003
Exploring Sustained Improvement in Low Performing Schools (Working Paper 03-3) May 2003
Charter Schools and Inequity: National Disparities in Funding, Teacher Quality, and Student Support (Working Paper 03-2) April 2003
Matching Funds for Retention Incentives for Early Care and Education Staff: Evaluation, Year One Progress Report, 2001-2002 (Policy Brief 03-01) February 2003
Training and Retaining Early Care and Education Staff. Bay Area Child-Care Retention Incentive Programs: Evaluation, Year One Progress Report, 2001-2002. (Policy Brief 03-2) February 2003
Training and Retaining Early Care and Education Staff. Training Programs: Evaluation, Year One Progress Report, 2001-2002 (Policy Brief 03-3) February 2003
Incentives for Attracting and Retaining K-12 Teachers: Lessons for Early Education (Policy Brief 02-3) November 2002
Welfare to Work and Child Care Selection: Which Families Use Subsidies and Home-based or Center Care? (Working Paper. 02-5) November 2002
Child Care Demand and Supply under CalWORKS: The Early Impacts of Welfare Reform for California's Children , 1998-2000 (Working Paper 02-3) October 2002
CDSS-PACE ChildCare Planning Project: Descriptive Findings from the Child Care Subsidy Interview (Working Paper 02-2) August 2002
CDSS-PACE ChildCare Planning Project: Findings from the Child Care Providers Focus Groups (Working Paper 02-1) July 2002
A Stark Plateau--California Families See Little Growth in Child Care Centers (Policy Brief 02-2) July 2002
California's Pioneering Training and Retention Initiatives for Early Childhood Educators: Lessons from San Francisco and Alameda Counties (Policy Brief 02-1) May 2002
New Lives for Poor Families? Mothers and Young Children Move through Welfare Reform (Technical Report) April 2002
Inventory of Early Childhood Education Training in California. (Working Paper 01-4) December 2001
Preschool and Child-Care Quality in California Neighborhoods: Policy Success, Remaining Gaps (Working Paper 01-3) August 2001
Child-Care Aid and Quality for California Families: Focusing on San Francisco and Santa Clara Counties (Working Paper 01-2) August 2001
Understanding Child Care Demand and Supply Issues: New Lessons from Los Angeles (Policy Brief 01-2) May 2001
Straw Into Gold, Resources Into Results: Spinning out the Implications of the "New" School Finance (Working Paper 01-1) April 2001
How to Pay for Child Care? Local Innovations Help Working Families (Policy Brief 01-1) April 2001
PACE Newsletter Volume 3 Number 1 Spring 2001
Los Angeles County Child Care Needs Assessment(Technical Report) March 2000
Ethnic Differences in Child Care Selection: The Influence of Family Structure, Parental Practices, and Home Language (Technical Report) 2000
Remember the Children: Mothers Balance Work and Child Care under Welfare Reform (Technical Report) February 2000
Are Child Care Options Expanding? (Policy Brief 00-1) January 2000
A Costly Gamble or Serious Reform? California's School Voucher Initiative-Proposition 38 (Technical Report) 2000
Crucial Issues in California Education 2000: Are the Reform Pieces Fitting Together? 2000
The Educational Consequences of Mobility for California Students and Schools (Policy Brief 99-1) May 1999
The Educational Consequences of Mobility for California Students and Schools (Technical Report) February 1999
School Choice: Abundant Hopes, Scarce Evidence of Results (Technical Report) March 1999
PACE Newsletter Volume 2 Number 1 Spring 1999
Private and Public School Effectiveness: A Reappraisal (Technical Report) January 1999
Bilingual Education: How Do Local Interests and Resource Shape Pedagogical Practices (Technical Report) June 1998
How Are School Districts Responding to Charter Laws and Charter Schools (Technical Report) April 1998
Waiting for Child Care: How do Parents Adjust to Scarce Options in Santa Clara County? (Technical Report) March 1998
Californians Speak on Education and Reform Options: Uneven Faith in Teachers, School Boards, and the State as Designers of Change. Based on a 1998 Field Poll (Technical Report) March 1998
Statistical Tabulations from a Survey of California Adults about Schools and School Reform (Technical Report) March 1998
California's Class Size Reduction: Implications for Equity, Practice & Implementation. ( A Joint Publication with WestEd) (Technical Report) March 1998
Early Child Care Selection: Variation by Geographic Location, Maternal Characteristics, and Family Structure (Technical Report) February 1998
Child Care Indicators 1998: Part 2 (Technical Report) February 1998
Child Care Indicator 1998: Part 1 (Technical Report) February 1998
PACE Newsletter Volume 1 Number 1 Fall 1997
Family Selection of Child-Care Centers: The Influence of Household Support, Ethnicity, and Parental Practices (Technical Report) December 1997
An Unfair Head Start: California Families Face Gaps in Preschool and Child Care Availability (Technical Report) November 1997
Hard Lessons in California: Minority Pay Gap Widens Despite More Schooling, Higher Scores (Technical Report) November 1997
California Curriculum Policy in the 1990s: "We Don't Have to be in Front to Lead." ( A Joint Publication with WestEd) (Technical Report) April 1997
Higher Education Outreach Programs: A Synthesis of Evaluations. (view html version) (Technical Report) January 1997
Organizing the Other Half of Teaching (Technical Report) September 1996
California Cares: Child Care and Development Services for Children and Families: Phase III, Part 2 (Technical Report) August 1996
California Cares: Child Care and Development Services for Children and Families: Phase III, Part 1 (Technical Report) August 1996
The Need for Teachers in California (Technical Report) July 1996
The Rise, Fall, and Rise of State Assessment in California: 1993-1996 (Technical Report) July 1996
Californians' Views on Education: Results of the PACE 1996 Poll (Technical Report) April 1996
California Cares: Leading the Way: California's History in Child Care and Development (Technical Report) November 1995
California Public School District Uses of State Lottery Revenues (Technical Report) November 1995
California Cares: Child Care and Development Services for Children and Families: Phase II Final Report (Technical Report) October 1995
A Review of Existing California State Data on Education (Technical Report) September 1995
California Cares: Child Care and Development Services for Children and Families: Phase I Final Report (Technical Report) April 1995
Rebuilding Education in the Golden State: A Plan for California's Schools (Technical Report) April 1995
Enhancing Professional Teaching Standards for California (Technical Report) September 1994
Conditions of Education in California, 1994-95 1994
Analysis of Prop. 174 The School Voucher Initiative (Technical Report) 1993
Prop. 174 (The Voucher Initiative) Overview of PACE Analysis (Technical Report) 1993
Prop. 174 (The Voucher Initiative) Financial Analysis (Technical Report) 1993
Prop. 174 Federal Income Tax Analysis (Parental Choice in Ed Initiative) (Technical Report) 1993
General Summary for Minority Oversample (Technical Report) September 1993
Private Schools in California (Technical Report) October 1993
Californians' Attitudes Toward Education and School Vouchers (Technical Report) September 1993
Implementing California's Lanaguage Arts Curriculum Framework (Policy Brief 92-4) November 1992
Summary of the Research on School Choice in the United States (Technical Report) September 1992
Nationwide Influences on California Education Policy (Policy Brief 92-3) May 1992
California School Finance for the 1990's (Policy Brief 92-2) February 1992
Conditions of Education in California, 1992-93 1992-93
The Effects of State Control on School Finance in California (Policy Brief 92-1) January 1992
Los Angeles Unified School District Intern Program: Recruiting and Preparing Teachers for an Urban Context (Technical Report) October 1991
Follow-up Survey of the 06 June 1988 and 06 June 1989 Graduates of the California Partnership Academies (Technical Report) September 1991
Conditions of Education in California, 1991 1991
Revenue and Expenditure Projections: California K-12 Education, 1991-1995 (Technical Report) July 1990
Educational Policy Trust Agreements: Connecting Labor Relations and School Reform: A Report on Year Two of the Trust Agreement Project (Technical Report) February 1990
Public Sector Choice in California (Technical Report) January 1990
Graduate Follow-up Survey of the 06 June 1988 Graduates of the California Partnership Academies (Technical Report) January 1990
Conditions of Education in California, 1990 1990
California Partnership Academies: 1987-88 Evaluation Report (Technical Report) September 1989
Child Care Quality from the Children's Prespective: A Hypothetical Account and Research Review (Technical Report) April 1989
Conditions of Children in California 1989
Chapter Highlights: Conditions of Children in California (Technical Report) March 1989
An Exploration of County Expenditures and Revenues for Children's Services (Technical Report) February 1989
Conditions of Education in California, 1989 1989
The Trust Agreement Project: Broadening the Vision of School Labor-Management Relations: A First-Year Progress Report (Technical Report) September 1988
School Reform and School Finance: What Did Senate Bill 813 Buy? (Technical Report) August 1988
The Two Million Dollar School (Technical Report) May 1988
Jobs for the Disadvantaged Graduate Follow-up Survey (Technical Report) May 1988
Peninsula Academies Replications: 1986-87 Evaluation Report (Technical Report) April 1988
Looking Back: Program Successes and Evaluations Under "Jobs for the Disadvantaged" (Technical Report) March 1988
Math, Science, and Foreign Language Instruction in California: Recent Changes and Prospective Trends (Technical Report) February 1988
Conditions of Education in California, 1988 1988
How State Education Reform Can Improve Secondary Schools Part I: Study Findings (Technical Report) December 1987
How State Education Reform Can Improve Secondary Schools Part II: Background and Technical Appendices (Technical Report) December 1987
Dropping Out: A Pre-School through High School Concern December 1987
Staff Development in California: Public and Personal Investments, Program Patterns, and Policy Choices (executive summary of Technical Report) December 1987
Staff Development in California: Public and Personal Investments, Program Patterns, and Policy Choices (full Technical Report) December 1987
School-to-Work and Academy Demonstration Programs: 1986-87 Evaluation Report (Technical Report) November 1987
SB813 and Teacher Dismissal (Technical Report) July 1987
Vocational Education in Transition (Technical Report) July 1987
California Public School Finance Programs, 1986-87 (Technical Report) May 1987
PERB Factfinding Reviewed: Results of a PACE Surveyv (Technical Report) May 1987
Do "Our Schools Win, Too?" School Uses of Lottery Revenues: Year One (Technical Report) April 1987
Coordinating California's Systems of Higher and Lower Education (Technical Report) April 1987
High School Curriculum and University Admission Requirements: A Critical Linkage (Technical Report) April 1987
Pregnant and Parenting Minors and California Schools (Technical Report) April 1987
Education Reform and Services to Poor Students: Can the Two Policies by Compatible? (Technical Report) March 1987
Professionalizing Teaching in California (Excerpted from Conditions of Education in California, 1986-87) (Technical Report) March 1987
Peninsula Academies Replications: 1985-86 Evaluation Report (Technical Report) January 1987
Teacher Supply and Demand in California: Is the Reserve Pool a Realistic Source of Supply? (Technical Report) August 1986
School Finances, Reforms, and Revenue Needs (Technical Report) May 1986
Reasons for Non-Participation in the Minimum Teacher Salary Program (Technical Report) April 1986
One Million Hours a Day: Vocational Education in California Public Secondary Schools (Technical Report) March 1986
A View From the Classroom: California Teachers' Opinions on Working Conditions and School Reform Proposals (Technical Report) March 1986
Conditions of Education in California, 1986-87 1986
Seeking Flexibility in School Management: Waivers and School-Based Program Coordination Under AB 777 (Technical Report) November 1985
Curricular Change in California Comprehensive High Schools: 1982-83 to 1984-85 (Technical Report) July 1985
A Changing Society: New Perspectives for Science Education (Technical Report) July 1985
SB 813 and Tenth Grade Counseling: A Report on Implementation (Technical Report) May 1985
Revenue and Expenditure Projections for California K-12 Education, 1985-86 through 1989-90 (Technical Report) March 1985
Conditions of Education in California, 1985 1985
Demographic Shifts and their Implications for Education: The Hispanic Population in California (Technical Report) July 1984
Data-Based Accountability in Education (Technical Report) April 1984
Credentialing in California: Alternative for Governance (Technical Report) August 1984
Some Reflections on the Honorable Profession of Teaching (Technical Report) February 1984
Conditions of Education in California, 1984 1984
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Policy Analysis for California Education