Laura Desimone

This project proposes to investigate how changes in state policy over time relate to student achievement trends in NAEP mathematics and reading, and to changes in the achievement gap between racial/ethnic groups. The project will link the 1992 and 2003 NAEP fourth- and eighth-grade achievement scores to a detailed database of state policy indicators compiled by the investigators.

The Research and Development Center on Standards, Alignment, Instruction, and Learning (C-SAIL) will examine the implementation of college- and career-ready standards in 5 states, assess how they are related to student outcomes in 50 states, and test an intervention that supports standards-aligned instruction in 5 states. C-SAIL's launch occurs at a time when states and districts across the country are engaged in a variety of initiatives aimed at implementing college- and career-ready standa...

Through this partnership, SDP and Penn GSE worked to build a structured, formalized research alliance between the two organizations. Creating the alliance would build the capacity of both organizations; improve research-to-practice links; enable the study the district's approaches to school reform, and establish a foundation for future, larger scale collaborative impact studies.