Making the Most of Interim Assessment Data: Lessons from Philadelphia - Executive Summary Jun 2009 Jolley Bruce Christman, Ruth Curran Neild, Katrina E. Bulkley, Roseann Liu, Cecily A. Mitchell, Eva Travers, Suzanne Blanc

This is the executive summary of RFA's report, Making the Most of Interim Assessment Data: Lessons from Philadelphia. Under No Child Left Behind, urban school districts have increasingly turned to...

Making the Most of Interim Assessment Data: Lessons from Philadelphia Jun 2009 Jolley Bruce Christman, Ruth Curran Neild, Katrina E. Bulkley, Roseann Liu, Cecily A. Mitchell, Eva Travers, Suzanne Blanc

Under No Child Left Behind, urban school districts have increasingly turned to interim assessments, administered at regular intervals, to help gauge student progress in advance of annual state exam...

Building with Benchmarks: The Role of the District in Philadelphia's Benchmark Assessment System Apr 2008 Katrina E. Bulkley, Jolley Bruce Christman, Goertz M, Nancy Lawrence

This paper draws on district interviews and meeting observations to understand (1) the accountability, organizational, and instructional context for benchmark assessments in Philadelphia and how th...

Studying Micro-Processes of School-Based Educators' Use of Data in Cross-School Qualitative Research Apr 2007 Suzanne Blanc, Katrina E. Bulkley, Jolley Bruce Christman, Ruth Curran Neild, Eva Travers

This paper was presented at the American Education Research Association's 2007 annual conference. While there is a great deal of enthusiasm for collection and use of student data by educators, litt...

Bringing the Private into the Public: Changing the Rules of the Game and New Regime Politics in Philadelphia Public Education Feb 2007 Katrina E. Bulkley

Using the lens of urban regime analysis, this article examines the Philadelphia education regime and the policies it has promoted resulting from the state takeover of the district in 2001. The auth...

Blurring the Boundaries: Private Sector Involvement in Philadelphia Public Schools Apr 2005 Eva Gold, Jolley Bruce Christman, Katrina E. Bulkley, Elizabeth Useem

This paper focuses on the school district of Philadelphia following the state takeover. It explores the tensions between state pressures to shift power away from the district central office and tow...

Contracting Out Schools: The First Year of the Philadelphia Diverse Provider Model May 2004 Katrina E. Bulkley, Leah M. Mundell, Morgan Riffer

This research brief reports on the first year of Philadelphia's diverse provider model. The findings are based on analysis of interviews with 20 principals in schools operated under the diverse pro...

A Public/Private Hybrid: For-Profit Educational Management Organizations and Public Education Apr 2003 Katrina E. Bulkley

Dr. Bulkley discusses her ongoing research on education management organizations (EMO's) and charter schools. She is exploring issues of decision making and autonomy for the schools and how this af...