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Education Policy Institute Resource Book

The Education Policy Institute Resource Book: 2010 Edition was created to supplement the 2nd Annual Education Policy Institute for Delaware Legislators, held in the spring of 2010. The Institute is a joint project of the Delaware General Assembly, the Delaware Department of Education, and the Rodel Foundation of Delaware.

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Delaware Best Practices

Teacher Quality / Leadership
Performance-Pay for Teachers: Designing a Systems that Students Deserve, Center for Teaching Quality, April 2007.
Leading the Local: Teachers Union Presidents Speak on Change, Challenges, Education Sector, June 2007.
Teacher Compensation Database, The Education Commission of the States.
Advancing Pay for Performance,” Education Week, 2009.
Information on Teacher Advancement Program (TAP), focused on recruiting, training, and retaining high quality educators by providing a professional compensation system.
Teacher Retention in the State of Delaware 2001–2006, Institute for Public Administration College of Human Services, Education & Public Policy University of Delaware, 2008.
Delaware Teacher and Administrator Supply Survey Analysis Report, Institute for Public Administration College of Human Services, Education & Public Policy University of Delaware, 2007.

Family & Community
The Family: America’s Smallest School, Education Testing Service, 2007.
Why, What and How of Effective School, Family and Community Partnerships, Dr. Karen L. Mapp, national education expert, 2007.
The Missing Piece of the Proficiency Puzzle, Commissioner’s Parents Advisory Panel, Final Report to the Kentucky Department of Education, June 2007.
Linking Student Achievement to School, Family, and Community Involvement, Edvantia, 2005.
Beyond Input: Achieving Authentic Participation in School Reform, Harvard Family Research Project, Volume 9,2, 2003.
SEDL National Center for Family and Community Connections with Schools , Lopez, E. & Kreider, H., 2003.
One Dream, Two Realities: Perspectives of Parents on America's High Schools. Civic Enterprises, 2008.

School Finance
LEAD Cost Efficiency Study, 2008.
LEAD Funding Study, 2008.
Toward More Effective Financing of Student Achievement in Delaware’s Schools, Delaware Public Policy Institute, 2004.
How Good is Good Enough? Achievement, Spending, and Delaware's Future, Delaware Public Policy Institute, 2007.

School Choice
Providing Quality Choice Options in Education, National Governors Association, 2004.
Opening Doors: How Low-Income Parents Search for the Right School, Center on Reinventing Public Education, 2007.
Center for Education Reform 
Plotting School Choice: The Challenge of Crossing District Lines, Education Sector Reports, 2008.

Standards and Accountability

Closing the Achievement Gap Takes Leadership, Kati Haycock, 2008.
Seeing the U.S. School Systems through the Prism of International Benchmarks, Andreas Schleicher, 2008.
How Do Performance Level 1 and 2 Students in Delaware Perform Over time? Delaware Education Research & Development Center, 2006.
Delaware Student Testing Program Performance Level 1 Study Preliminary Findings, Delaware Education Research & Development Center, 2006.
A More Accurate Growth Model: Using Multigrade Adaptive Assessments to Measure Student Growth, Steering Committee of the Delaware Statewide Academic Growth Assessment Pilot, 2007.