Chesapeake Research Associates, LLC

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) provided an unprecedented $100 billion of funding for the U.S. Department of Education. While the initial goal of this money was to deliver emergency education funding, ARRA was also used as an opportunity to spur innovation and reform at different levels of the education system. In turn, ARRA provided a unique opportunity to foster school improvements and to learn from reform efforts. The purpose of this study was to describe the recipients of

Title II, Part A, the Improving Teacher State Formula Grants program, is the primary federal funding under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act to support a high-quality teacher in every classroom. The program, funded at $2.9 billion in Fiscal Year 2008, targets high-poverty districts and funds a broad array of allowable activities such as support for certification including alternative certification.Highly-selective programs that provide alternative routes to teacher certification are v

: In this project, researchers proposed to evaluate the effect of Writing Wings, a writing instruction program developed by the Success for All Foundation that targets disadvantaged children in grades 3 to 5, a critical period for the acquisition of good writing skills. At the end of the project, the researchers intended to show whether implementing Writing Wings in 20 elementary schools improved the writing of their disadvantaged students.