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Lucas Westmaas

Research Analyst

Recent Publications by Lucas Westmaas

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Blended Learning: Lessons from Best Practice Sites and the Philadelphia Context

The Philadelphia Education Research Consortium’s (PERC’s) inaugural project is centered on the emerging concept of Blended Learning. The first brief, published in September 2014, examines the research base, identifies a definition of this emerging concept,…

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Blended Learning: Lessons from Best Practice Sites and the Philadelphia Context

PERC research is produced through collaboration between researchers from Research for Action and the School District of Philadelphia’s Office of Research and Evaluation. For more information, please visit phledresearch.org. Over the course of the last…

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Revisiting Cyber Charter School Performance

RFA’s updated cyber charter school analysis shows that cybers continue to lag far behind both traditional public and charter schools on the state’s performance measure, and average cyber performance trails behind the average performance of…

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The Potential Effects of Opting Out of State Tests in Pennsylvania

Parents across the country have expressed frustration with standardized tests. This policy brief examines the degree to which student opt-outs might influence Pennsylvania’s new school rating system, the School Performance Profile (SPP), which relies heavily…

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Pennsylvania’s School Performance Profile: Not the Sum of its Parts

Test-based accountability has been a primary feature of public school policy since 2001, when the No Child Left Behind Act required states to adopt annual assessment programs, identify sanctions for schools that did not meet…
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Key Projects by Lucas Westmaas

Examining Extended Learning Opportunities in New Hampshire: A Statewide Evaluation

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