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Research Reports

Wong, Kenneth K., Stephen J. Meyer, and Francis X. Shen. Educational Resources and Achievement Gaps in High Poverty Schools: Findings from the Longitudinal Evaluation of School Change and Performance (LESCP) in Title I Schools. U.S. Department of Education Report EA96008001. (PDF 196 KB)

Wong, Kenneth K., Dorothea Anagnostopoulos, Stacy Rutledge, and Claudia Edwards. The Challenge of Improving Instruction in Urban High Schools: Case Studies of the Implementation of the Chicago Academic Standards. U.S. Department of Education and the Spencer Foundation (Case Study)

Smrekar, Claire, James W. Guthrie, Debra Owens, and Pearl G. Sims. 2001. "March Toward Excellence: School Success and Minority Student Achievement in Department of Defense Schools" (PDF 880 KB)

Journal Articles

Wong, Kenneth K. 2003. "How Chicago Reversed Its Descent," Education next, 3 (1) 44–49. Available at www.educationnext.org

Wong, Kenneth K. and Francis X. Shen. 2003. "Big City Mayors and School Governance Reform: The Case of School District Takeover," Peabody Journal of Education 78 (1) 5–32. Available at http://www.catchword.com/erlbaum/0161956x/contp1-1.htm

Heyneman, Stephen P. 2003. "International Education: A Retrospective," Peabody Journal of Education, 78 (1) 33–53. Available at http://www.catchword.com/erlbaum/0161956x/contp1-1.htm

Guthrie, James W. 2003. "The Historic Paradox of Instructional Technology and Educational Policy: A Commentary," Peabody Journal of Education 78(1) 54–67. Available at http://www.catchword.com/erlbaum/0161956x/contp1-1.htm

Wong, Kenneth K. and Francis S. Shen, "When Mayors Lead Urban Schools: Toward developing a framework to assess the effects of mayoral takeover of urban districts." Paper prepared for School Board Politics Conference, Program on Education Policy and Governance, Harvard University, October 15–17, 2003. (PDF 172 KB)

Wong, Kenneth K. and Francis X. Shen. 2002. "Do School District Takeovers Work? Assessing the Effectiveness of City and State Takeovers as a School Reform Strategy," The State Education Standard. Spring Issue. (PDF 96 KB)

Books and Book Chapters

McLendon, Michael K. Straddling Market and State: Higher Education Governance and Finance Reform in Kazakhstan (PDF 116 KB)

Wong, Kenneth K. and Margaret C. Wang, Eds. 2002. Efficiency, Accountability and Equity Issues in Title I Schoolwide Program Implementation, Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing.