• A New Majority: Low Income Students in the South’s Public Schools
• Achieve.org
• Achieving with Data: How High-Performing School Systems Use Data to Improve Instruction for Elementary Students
• America's Smallest School: The Family
• An Overview of Child Well Being in Rich Countries (U.S. Ranks 20th Out of 21 - UNICEF Innocenti Research Center)
• Building Collective Efficacy: How Leaders Inspire Teachers to Achieve
• Can Teacher Quality Be Effectively Assessed?
• Charter, Private, Public Schools and Academic Achievement: New Evidence from NAEP Mathematics Data
• Child Trends
• Class and Schools: Using Social, Economic, and Educational Reform to Close the Black-White Achievement Gap
• Effective Teaching in Reduced Sized Classes
• Education Watch 2006 (Education Trust)
• Enrollment in Texas Public Schools (January 2007)
• Federal Resources for Educational Excellence
• Funding Gaps 2006 (Education Trust)
• How Leadership Influences Student Learning
• Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States
• Low-Income Students Become Majority in Southern Schools: Experts Predict Entire Nation Could Reach Demographic Milestone if Trends Persist
• MetLife Survey of the American Teacher: An Examination of School Leadership
• NAEP’s 2004 Long-Term Trend Assessment Results
• NAEP 2007 Results
• National Center for Education Statistics
• Nations Report Card Now Available
• New Federal Report Finds Charter Schools Less Likely to Meet Standards
• Production and Retention of Beginning Teachers from 1999 to 2003: A Comparison of Preparation Routes
• Projections of Education Statistics to 2015 (National Center for Education Statistics)
• Quality Counts 2007: From Cradle to Career
• Re-Examining a Primary Premise of Market Theory: An Analysis of NAEP Data on Achievement in Public and Private Schools
• Reconsidering the Impact of High-Stakes Testing
• Rolling Up Their Sleeves: Superintendents and Principals Talk About What's Needed to Fix Public Schools
• Should Sixth Grade Be in Elementary or Middle School? An Analysis of Grade Configuration and Student Behavior
• Similar Students, Different Results: Why Do Some Schools Do Better?
• State of Texas Children 2007
• State Report 2005 – Texas Teacher Quality
• TASB Releases Teacher and Principal Salary Survey
• The Changing Landscape of American Public Education: New Students, New Schools
• The Condition of Education 2005 from the National Center for Education Statistics
• “The Development of Bilingualism and Biliteracy from Grade 3-5: A Summary of the Findings From the CAL/CREDE Study of Two-Way Immersion Education”
• The New Demography of America’s Schools: Immigration and the No Child Left Behind Act
• U.S. Census Bureau Factfinder
• Why We Still Need Public Schools: Public Education for the Common Good (Center on Education Policy)

Research-Based Strategies for Classroom Teaching

• Principles of Effective Teaching Summary
• What Works in Classroom Instruction (McREL)
• Noteworthy Perspectives: Classroom Strategies for Helping At-Risk Students (McREL)
• Teachers Make a Difference: What is the Research Evidence
• The Five Standards for Effective Pedagogy (CREDE)
• How Do Teachers Learn to Teach Effectively? Quality Indicators form Quality Schools