Education Week - No Child Left Behind (NCLB) (2005)  
 Guidance on Accountability Systems from the Council of Chief State School Officers (Website)  
 SNAPSHOTS on Minnesota Youth by Minnesota Department of Education and Department of Public Safety  
 Healthy Alternatives to Chairs and Desks (2006) by Mayo Clinic  
 Intervention Programs Can Have Powerful Effects (2005) by Eric Camburn from WCER  
 Schools Moving Up: Ideas In Action by WestEd  
 Fast Facts: Helpful Back-to-School Statistics (2008) by Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education  
 Uncommonly Successful English/Language Arts Programs Share Common Instructional Features by Dr. Judith Langer  
 Limiting The Unintended Consequences of High Stakes Testing by Stuart S. Yeh (2005)  
 USDE NCLB Evaluation of Title I Accountability Systems and School Improvement Efforts (2002-03)  
 Changing NCLB District Accountability Standards: Implications for Racial Equity (2005) by The Civil Rights Project at Harvard University  
 Advancing System-wide Instructional Reform: Lessons from Three Urban Districts Partnered with the Institute for Learning (2005) by J. Marsh, K. Kerr, G. Ikemoto, H. Darilek, M. Suttorp, R. Zimmer and H. Barney  
 AERA- Standards and Tests: Keeping Them Aligned (2003)  
 America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being 2005 by the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics  
 Communities and Schools: A New View of Urban Education Reform (2005) by Mark R. Warren, Harvard University  
 The Condition of Education (2005)  
 A Practical Guide to Promoting America's Public Schools (2004) by Learning First Alliance  
 Getting Back on Course: Standards-based Reform and Accountability (2005) by Lauren Resnick and Chris Zurawsky from American Educator  
 Decentralized Decision-making for Schools: New Promise for an Old Idea? (2005) by RAND Corp.  
 Similar Students, Different Results (June 2006) by EdSource (Introduction)  
 Similar Students, Different Results (June 2006) by EdSource (Full Report)  
 Public Attitudes Toward Public Schools; 38th Annual Phi Delta Kappa/Gallup Poll (2006) by Lowell Rose & Alec Gallup  
 Studies Give Teachers Barely Passing Grade in Classroom by Greg Toppo, USA Today  
 Minnesota Proficiency Report (2007) by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute  
 The Proficiency Illusion Full Report (2007) by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute  
 Gauging Growth: How to Judge NCLB (2007)by Bruce Fuller, Joseph Wright, Kathryn Gesicki, & Erin Kang  
 Instructional Coaching (2007) by Julie Kowal & Lucy Steiner  
 How Educators in Three States Are Responding to Standards-Based Accountability Under No Child Left Behind (2007) by RAND Education  
 Why Some Schools With Latino Children Beat the Odds ...and Others Don’t (2006) by Morrison Institute for Public Policy, Arizona State University  
 Reading First: Locally Appreciated, Nationally Troubled (October, 2007) by Center on Education Policy  
 Influence: A Study of the Factors Shaping Education Policy (December, 2006) by Christopher B. Swanson & Janelle Barlage  
 Title I School Choice and Supplemental Educational Services: Interim Report (Full Report, 2008) by US Department of Education  
 Title I School Choice and Supplemental Educational Services: Interim Report (Highlights, 2008) by US Department of Education  
 Active Education: Physical Education, Physical Activity and Academic Performance (2007) by Stewart G. Trost  
 Learning, Arts, and the Brain: The Dana Consortium Report on Arts and Cognition (2008) by Michael Gazzaniga  
 In Search of a Broader View of Education: An Essay Review of Glass's 'Fertilizers, Pills, and Magnetic Strips' (2008) by Benjamin Levin  
 A Call to Restructure Restructuring: Lessons from the No Child Left Behind Act in Five States (2008 News Brief) by Caitlin Scott, Center on Education Policy  
 A Call to Restructure Restructuring: Lessons from the No Child Left Behind Act in Five States (2008) by Caitlin Scott, Center on Education Policy  
 Improving Accountability in Public Education (2009) by Brian Stecher and Jennifer Li, RAND Corp.  
 Making it Easier for School Staff to Help Traumatized Students (2009) by Elizabeth Maggio, RAND Corp.  
 Title I Implementation: Update on Recent Evaluation Findings Report Highlights (2009) by US Department of Education  
 Title I Implementation: Update on Recent Evaluation Findings (2009) Full Report by Stephanie Stullich, Andrew Abrams, Elizabeth Eisner, & Erica Lee; US Department of Education  
 The State of America's Children 2008 (December, 2008) by The Children's Defense Fund  
 2009 Presidential Address: Repositioning Politics in Education's Circle of Knowledge by Lorraine M. McDonnell  
 Supplemental Educational Services and Student Achievement in Waiver Districts: Anchorage and Hillsborough by Miguel Socias, Juliette-Marie deSousa, & Kerstin Carlson Le Floch (published January 2009, revised July 2009)