Working Papers

• Reforming Educational Governance: Lessons for California from Texas and Florida, with Joanna Smith and June Ahn.
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Recent Publications

• Evaluating the “Crazy Quilt”: Educational Governance in California, with Joanna Smith. Getting Down to Facts: A Research Project Examining California’s School Governance and Finance Systems. March, 2007.
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• *An Introduction to “Early College”, with Stefanie Stern and June Ahn. Education Finance and Policy Spring 2007, Vol. 2, No. 2: 175-187
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  *A longer version of this report is available. Brewer and Stern (2005) The Promise of “Early College” as a High School Redesign Model. Unpublished paper.
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Books

• Education for a New Era: Design and Implementation of K-12 Reform in Qatar, with Catherine A. Augustine, Gail L. Zellman, Gery Ryan, et.al. RAND, 2007
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• Charter School Operations and Performance: Evidence from California, with Ron Zimmer, Richard Buddin, Derrick Chau, Brian Gill, et.al.  RAND MR 1700, 2003.
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• Rhetoric Versus Reality: What We Know and What We Need to Know About Vouchers and Charter Schools, with Brian Gill, Mike Timpane and Karen Ross.  RAND MR 1118, 2001.
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• In Pursuit of Prestige:  Strategy and Competition in U.S. Higher Education, with Susan Gates and Charles Goldman.  Transaction Press, 2001.
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Selected Publications

2005

• "Florida’s Constitutional Amendment to Reduce Class Size: What Can Research Tell Us?" Florida Institute of Education Policy Briefs, pp. 65-78, June 2005
  
  
• "Charter Schools Come of Age," with Priscilla Wohlstetter. Urban Ed, Fall/Winter 2005
  

2004

• "The Teacher Labour Market and Teacher Quality”, with Eric Eide and Dan Goldhaber. Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Vol. 20, No. 2

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2003

• "Private Resources in Public Schools: Evidence from a Pilot Study.” with Ron Zimmer and Cathy Krop.  Journal of Education Finance, Vol. 28, Spring

2001

• "Class Size and Student Achievement,” with Ron Ehrenberg, Adam Gamoran, and J. Douglas Willms. Psychological Science in the Public Interest, Vol. 2, No. 1, May
  
  
• "Does Class Size Matter?,” with Ron Ehrenberg, Adam Gamoran, and J. Douglas Willms. Scientific American, November
  
  
• "Evaluating the Evidence on Teacher Certification: A Rejoinder,” with Dan Goldhaber. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Vol. 23, No. 1, Spring
  
  
• "In Pursuit of Prestige: Strategy and Competition in U.S. Higher Education Technical Papers,” with Susan M. Gates and Charles Goldman. RAND, June

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2000

• "Does Teacher Certification Matter? High School Teacher Certification Status and Student Achievement,” with Dan Goldhaber. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Vol. 22, No. 2, Summer
  
  
• "How Should We Measure the Effect of Ability Grouping on Student Performance?,” with D.I. Rees, and L.M. Argys. Economics of Education Review, Vol. 19

1999

• "A Three-way Error Components Analysis of Educational Productivity,” with Dan Goldhaber, and Deborah Anderson.  Education Economics, Vol. 7, No. 3
  
  
• "Do Faculty Connect School to Work? Evidence from Community Colleges,” with Maryann Jacobi Gray. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Vol. 21. No. 4
  
  
• "Does it Pay to Attend an Elite Private College? Cross-Cohort Evidence on the Effects of College Type on Earnings,” with Eric Eide and Ronald Ehrenberg.  The Journal of Human Resources, Vol. 34, No. 1, Winter
  
  
• "Estimating the Cost of National Class Size Reduction under Different Policy Alternatives,” with Cathy Krop, Brian Gill, and Robert Reichardt.  Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Vol. 21, No. 2
  
  
• "Testing for Sample Selection in the Milwaukee School Choice Experiment,” with Dan D. Goldhaber, Eric Eide, and Daniel Rees.  Economics of Education Review, Vol. 18

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1998

• "Does it Pay to Attend an Elite Private College?  Evidence on the Effects of Undergraduate College Quality on Graduate School Attendance,” with Eric Eide and Ronald Ehrenberg.  Economics of Education Review, Vol. 17
  
  
• "Work-Based Learning: Student Perspectives on Quality and Links to School,” with Cathleen Stasz.  Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Vol. 20, No. 1

1997

• "Why Don’t Schools and Teachers Seem to Matter?  Assessing the Impact of Unobservables on Educational Productivity,” with Dan D. Goldhaber.  The Journal of Human Resources, Vol. 32, No. 3

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1996

• "Career Paths and Quit Decisions: Evidence from Teaching.” Journal of Labor Economics, Vol. 14, No.2
  
  
• "Detracking Americas Schools: Equity at Zero Cost?” with Laura M. Argys and Daniel I. Rees. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Vol. 15, No. 4
  
  
• "Does More School District Administration Lower Educational Productivity? Some Evidence on the “Administrative Blob” in New York Public Schools.” Economics of Education Review, Vol. 15, No. 2
  
  
• "Tracking in the United States: Descriptive Statistics from NELS,” with Daniel E. Rees and Laura M. Argys. Economics of Education Review, Vol. 15, No. 1

1995

• "Did Teachers’ Verbal Ability and Race Matter in the 1960’s?  Coleman Revisited,” with Ronald G. Ehrenberg. Economics of Education Review, Vol. 14, No. 1
  
  
• "Do Teachers’ Race, Gender, and Ethnicity Matter? Evidence form the National Educational Longitudinal Study of 1988,” with Ronald G. Ehrenberg and Daniel D. Goldhaber. Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol. 48, No. 3

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1994

• "Do School and Teacher Characteristics Matter?  Evidence from High School and Beyond,” with Ronald G. Ehrenberg.  Economics of Education Review, Vol. 13, No. 1

1993

• "Institutional Responses to Increased External Support for Graduate Students,” with Ronald G. Ehrenberg and Daniel I. Rees.  The Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 75, No. 4
  
  
• "Principals and Student Outcomes: Evidence from U.S. High Schools.” Economics of Education Review, Vol. 12, No. 4

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