Research Highlights
Identify research that can inform your grantmaking using summaries prepared by the Foundation Center.
 Race to the Top Coalition
Pauley, Elizabeth
November 2011
Highlights early outcomes of school reform efforts launched under a new state law with support from the Race to the Top program, including progress in turnaround schools, charter schools, and innovation schools. Outlines challenges and recommendations.
Funder(s): Boston Foundation
 Bellwether Education Partners
Smith, Kim; Julie Petersen
July 2011
Assesses the degree to which the i3 program helped advance innovation in public education. Outlines takeaways, challenges, and recommendations for the Education Department and grantmakers, including optimizing support for different stages of innovation.
Funder(s): Rockefeller Foundation
 Bellwether Education Partners
Smith, Kim; Julie Petersen
April 2011
Examines efforts to align capital to education innovation and calls for clarity and agreement on problems, goals, and metrics; an effective R&D system; an evidence-based culture of continuous improvement; and transparent, comparable, and useful data.
Funder(s): Rockefeller Foundation
 School Turnaround Group
Shea, Jennifer; Meredith Liu
December 2010
Outlines lessons from the FY 2009 funding process and failed strategies to turn around failing schools, including the importance of accountability for student achievement and innovative partnerships. Offers advice on application design and implementation.
Funder(s): Carnegie Corporation of New York
 Foundation Center
Lawrence, Steven
June 2010
Based on interviews with stakeholders in the Department of Education's first-round Race to the Top competition, examines the challenges states faced, grantmaker support for applications, concerns, and insights into grantmaker-government partnerships.
Funder(s): Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
 The New Teacher Project
September 2009
Outlines the U.S. Department of Education’s (USDE) “Race to the Top” Fund (RTT) application and selection process, summarizes the USDE application and overall selection criteria for RTT funding, and provides a checklist that states and districts can use to determine their own eligibility based on the four assurance areas and overall selection criteria.
 Show more
 National Council on Teacher Quality
Walsh, Kate; Sandi Jacobs
August 2009
Outlines expected requirements for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act's funding to the states for education reform. Offers strategies for improving teacher quality in Colorado, as well as data infrastructure, low-performing schools, and standards.
Funder(s): Colorado Children's Campaign, Donnell-Kay Foundation, Piton Foundation, Public Education & Business Coalition
 Center for American Progress
April 2009
Offers ideas for spending stimulus funds strategically to align and restructure districts' use of resources to improve student performance by assessing current practices, focusing on support for quality instruction, and making transitional investments.
Funder(s): Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
 Education Resource Strategies
April 2009
Analyzes small school design elements driving extra per-student spending, needed start-up and ramp-up investments, and impact on facility use and enrollment projections. Offers a tool for quantifying resource use and suggestions for effective allocation.
Funder(s): Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
 Coalition for Student Achievement
April 2009
Outlines stimulus funding priorities and actions for governors and superintendents to improve standards, data systems, teacher evaluations, efforts to turn around low-performing schools, and targeted interventions. Supplement lists resources and examples.
Funder(s): Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation
 Show less
|
Resource Links
PubHub connects you to annotated research reports, case studies, and more on the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Read more»
Key Statistics
View charts illustrating elementary/secondary education's share of overall foundation giving and how funding within the field breaks down.
View Statistics»
Related Resources
|
