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Why Is It So Hard To Make Teachers Better?. Defining Ideas, January 30, 2011.
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Total Student Load: Maybe worth a longer look, but hardly a revolution. (A review of The Secret of TSL: The revolutionary discovery that raises school performance, by William G. Ouchi) . Education Next, 10(2), Spring 2010, pp. 84-85.
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The Choice Movement and the Courts. (with Alfred A. Lindseth). School Choice Advocate , Foundation for Educational Choice, February 2010.
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Building on No Child Left Behind. Science, 326, November 2009, pp. 802-803.
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Judicial Funding Mandates Related to Education Sharply Decline. (with Alfred A. Lindseth) . State Courts Project, Federalist Society, Fall 2009.
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Poor student learning explains the Latin American growth puzzle. (with Ludger Woessmann). VoxEU, August 14, 2009.
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An F in Effectiveness. (with Alfred A. Lindseth). Hoover Digest, No. 3, , pp. 43-47.
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Performance-Based Funding. Defining Ideas, 1, 2009, pp. 101-105.
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The Effectiveness of Court-Ordered Funding of Schools. (with Alfred A. Lindseth). Education Outlook, No. 6 (Washington, DC: American Enterprise Institute), May 2009.
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John Forest Kain (1935-2003). In Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume (eds.), The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
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Getting down to facts: School finance and governance in California. (with Susanna Loeb and Anthony S. Bryk). Institute for Research on Education Policy and Practice, Stanford University, September 2007.
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Is the 'Evidence-Based Approach' a Good Guide to School Finance Policy?. Paper commissioned by Washington Learns, March 2007.
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Milton Friedman’s Unfinished Business. Hoover Digest, No. 1, Winter 2007, pp. 42-49.
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Choice, Charters, and Public School Competition. Economic Commentary, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, March 15, 2006, March 15, 2006.
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Comment [on Murnane, Willett, Bub, and McCartney]. In Gary Burtless and Janet Rothenberg Pack(ed.), Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs, Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 2006, pp. 128-131.
Remedial Math: Rather than Spend More on Schools, We Should Spend More Wisely. The New Democrat, 7(6) , November/December 1995, pp. 25-27.
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Developing Value-Added Measures for Teachers and Schools. (with Caroline M. Hoxby). Reforming Education in Arkansas, (Stanford: Hoover Institution Press), 2005, pp. 99-104.
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Rewarding Teachers. (with Caroline M. Hoxby). Reforming Education in Arkansas, (Stanford: Hoover Institution Press), 2005, pp. 155-166.
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Why the Federal Government Should be Involved in School Accountability. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management , 24(1), Winter, 2005, pp. 168-172.
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Our School Performance Matters. Journal of Education, 185(3), November 2004, pp. 1-6.
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The Underrepresentation of Minority Faculty in Higher Education: Panel Discussion. American Economic Review, 94(2), May 2004, pp. 304-306.
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How to Determine Who is a Quality Teacher. (with Lewis C. Solmon, Philip Bigler, Lee S. Shulman, and Herbert J. Walberg). In Lewis C. Solmon and Tamara W. Schiff (ed.) . Talented Teachers: The Essential Force for Improving Student Achievement, Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing, 2004, pp. 49-85.
Potential Gains and Losses in Education. World and I, September 2003, pp. 30-35.
Comment [on Krueger and Heckman]. In Benjamin M. Friedman (ed.), Inequality in America: What Role for Human Capital Policies?, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003, pp. 252-269.
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Public School Finance and Urban School Policy: General versus Partial Equilibrium Analysis. In William G. Gale and Janet Rothenberg Pack (ed.), Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs, Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 2003, pp. 171-176.
Teacher quality and teacher salaries. Policy Brief, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, Stanford University, November 2002.
Introduction to the JHR's Special Issue on Designing Incentives to Promote Human Capital. (with James Heckman, Derek Nea). The Journal of Human Resources, 37( 4), Autumn, 2002, pp. 693-695.
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Comment [on Galiani and Schargrodsky]. Economia, 2(2), Spring 2002, April 2002, pp. 302-305.
The Sequel: RAND versus RAND. Education Matters, 1(1), Spring, 2001, pp. 68-69.
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Efficiency and Equity in Education. NBER Reporter, National Bureau of Economic Research, 2001, p. 15-19.
The Truth about Teacher Salaries and Student Achievement. In Williamson M. Evers, Lance T. Izumi, and Pamela A. Riley (ed.), School Reform: The Critical Issues, (Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press), 2001, pp. 174-175.
Teacher quality and school reform. (with Steven G. Rivkin). Education Finance Research Consortium, The Teaching Workforce, Symposium Proceedings, Albany: Center for Policy Research, Rockefeller College, University of Albany, 2001, pp. 81-99.
Further Evidence on the Effects of Catholic Secondary Schooling. in William G. Gale and Janet Rothenberg Pack (ed.). Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs, (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 2000), 2000, pp. 194-197.
Review of Susan E. Mayer, What Money Can’t Buy: Family Income and Children’s Life Chances. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 17(2), Summer 1998, pp. 535-538.
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Improving Student Achievement: Is Reducing Class Size the Answer?. Policy Brief, Progressive Policy Institute, June 1998.
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Are Resources Important?. Journal of Negro Education, 66(3), Summer, 1997, pp. 289-303.
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Review of Cohn and Johnes. Economics of Education Review, 16(3), June 1997, pp. 346-347.
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Why True Reform of Schools is so Unlikely. Jobs and Capital, (Milken Institute for Jobs and Capital Formation), 6, Winter, 1997, pp.23-27.
Discussion [of Kain and Singleton]. New England Economic Review, May/June 1996, pp. 111-114.
Comment on Chapters Two, Three, and Four. in Helen Ladd (ed.). Holding Schools Accountable: Performance-Based Reform in Education, Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1996, pp. 128-136.

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