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Leveling the Playing Field:
Creating Funding Equity Through Student-Based Budgeting

by Karen Hawley Miles, Kathleen Ware, and Marguerite Roza
Phi Delta Kappan, 2003

Traces the Cincinnati Public School district process of moving to a system of student-based budgeting: funding children rather than staff members and weighting the funding according to the schools’ and student’s needs.

Tags: school systems, resource allocation, per pupil spending

Urban School District Accountability Systems

by D. McAdams, M. Wisdom, S. Glover, A. McClellan
Center for Reform of School Systems, 2003

A report written for the Education Commission of the States by the Center for Reform of School Systems. December 2003. Using case studies from Boston, Cincinnati and Houston, authors provide strategies for creation of an effective district accountability system.

Tags: school systems, accountability

Rethinking District Professional Development Spending to Support School Improvement:
Lessons from Comparative Spending Analysis

by Karen Hawley Miles
American Education Finance Association, January 2003

Draft of chapter for American Education Finance Association 2003 Yearbook School Finance and Teacher Quality: Exploring the Connections.

Tags: teaching effectiveness, professional development, human capital, teaching

Chicago Public Schools Professional Development Project

ERS, 2002

A study of Chicago district Public Schools and tools for aligning professional development to student achievement. Published in partnership with Education Resource Strategies, 2002

Tags: teaching effectiveness, professional development, human capital, teaching

Getting to the Heart of School Improvement:
Integrating Professional Development Spending in the Cincinati Public Schools

by Karen Hawley Miles and Matthew Hornbeck
ERS, 2001

After four years of implementing Student’s First, a powerful strategic plan for improving student performance, the Cincinnati Public School System has put structures in place to encourage district wide improvement.

Tags: teaching effectiveness, professional development, human capital, teaching

Reinvesting in Teachers:
Aligning District Professional Development to Support a Strategy of Comprehensive School Reform

by Karen Hawley Miles and Matthew Hornbeck
New American Schools, 2000

This article explores options for rethinking how best to support teachers and schools in meeting higher standards.

Tags: teaching effectiveness, professional development, human capital, teaching

Professional Development Spending in the Boston Public Schools:
A Joint Report of the Boston Plan for Excellence and the Boston Public Schools

by Karen Hawley Miles, 1999

ERS performed a repeat analysis in 2001 which showed resources being used in much more focused, integrated ways to support the district wide professional development strategy. An additional Professional Development audit, performed by Rachel Curtis, Associate Superintendent for Teaching and Learning, using the ERS coding scheme, has resulted in recommendations…

Tags: teaching effectiveness, professional development, human capital, teaching

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