Arizona Education Policy Initiative

The Condition of Pre-K-12 Education in Arizona: 2005 (September 2005).

Center on Education Policy

Choices, Changes, and Challenges: Curriculum and Instruction in the NCLB Era (July 2007)
Answering the Question That Matters Most: Has Student Achievement Increased Since No Child Left Behind? (May 2007)

Basic (and Sometimes Surprising) Facts about the U.S. Education System: A Public Education Primer (July 2006)

Center on Reinventing Public Education

Buried Treasure: Developing a Management Guide From Mountains of School Data (January 2005)

Editorial Projects in Education Research Center

Influence: A Study of the Factors Shaping Education Policy (December 2006)

Education Commission of the States

What's Happening in School and District Leadership? (March 2005)
The Progress of Education Reform: District and School Leadership: Principals and Superintendents Play Significant – and Frequently Underestimated – Role in Teaching and Learning Process (Feb 2005, Vol 6, No. 2)

Education Testing Service

Fragile Futures: Risk and Vulnerability Among Latino High Achievers (December 2005)

Education Trust, Inc.

Education Watch Arizona – Key Education Facts and Figures – Achievement, Attainment and Opportunity from Elementary School through College (Fall 2006)
Primary Progress, Secondary Challenge: A State-by-State Look at Student Achievement Patterns (March 2006)
Gaining Traction, Gaining Ground: How Some High Schools Accelerate Learning for Struggling Students (November 2005)
Getting Honest About Grad Rates: How States Play the numbers and students lose (June 2005)

Thomas B. Fordham Institute

The Fordham Report 2006: How Well Are States Educating Our Neediest Children? (November 2006)

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

The Silent Epidemic; Perspectives of High School Dropouts. (March 2006)

Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL).

Balanced Leadership: What 30 years of research tells us about the effect of leadership on student achievement (2003)

National Center for Education Statistics

Mapping 2005 State Proficiency Standards Onto the NAEP Scales (June 2007)

Stanford Educational Leadership Institute

Developing Successful Principals: Review of Research (August 2005)

Wallace Foundation

Getting Principal Mentoring Right: Lessons from the Field. (March 2007)
Leadership for Learning: Making the Connections Among State, District AND School Policies Practices (Sept 2006)