BIBLIOGRAPHY

These documents are cited throughout the website:

Mission

Easton, John Q, "From High School to the Future: the Pathway to 20," Oct. 2008.

What We Do

Alliance for Excellent Education, “Potential Economic Impacts of Improved Education on Illinois,” 2008.

Our Economy

Achieve, Inc., Business Tools for Better Schools, 2007.

U.S. Census Bureau, American Fact Finder, 2006 American Community Survey.

Skills2Compete, "Illinois’ Forgotten Middle-Skill Jobs", September 2008.

Our Academic Performance

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), 2003.

Easton, J., “The Road to Higher Test Scores: Good Schools and Good Grades,” 2008.

Achieve, Inc., Closing the Expectations Gap: An annual 50 state progress report on the alignment of high school policies with the demands of college and careers, 2007.

Our College Pipeline

Goldin, C. and Katz, L., “The Race between Education and Technology,” Belknap Press, 2008.

EPE Research Center, “Education Counts 2003”, 2003

NCES, “Enrollment in Postsecondary Institutions, Fall 2004; Graduation Rates, 1998 & 2001 Cohorts; and Financial Statistics, Fiscal Year 2004", 2004

NCES, Digest of Education Statistics (Table 158) , 2007.

Our Achievement Gap

National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), The Nation's Report Card - Reading, 2007.
National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), The Nation's Report Card - Math, 2007.
Postsecondary Education Opportunity, Issue 188, 2008.

The Cost of Inaction

Business Tools for Better Schools, Benefits to Investing in Public Education fact sheet, 2008.

Solutions

Achieve, "Achieve Data Profile: Massachusetts", 2008

Strengthening Human Capital

Thomas J. Kane, Jonah E. Rockoff and Douglas O. Staiger, Photo Finish, 2007
William L. Sanders and June C. Rivers , "Cumulative and Residual Effects of Teachers on Future Student Academic Achievement", 1996

Education Trust, “Good Teaching Matters: How Well-Qualified Teachers Can Close the Gaps,” 1998
IERC, "Leveling Up: Narrowing the Teacher Academic Capital Gap in Illinois," 2008

IERC, "Leaving Schools or Leaving the Profession: Setting Illinois' Record Straight on New Teacher Attrition," 2007
IERC, "The Teacher Supply Pipeline in Illinois: Entrance Into And Exit From Teaching," 2002
ACORN, Attrition of Teachers Serving At-Risk Kids, 2005
Ingersoll, R., "Teacher turnover and teacher shortages: An organizational analysis. American Educational Research Journal, 38(3), 499-534, 2001.
Ingersoll, R., “Is There Really a Teacher Shortage?” 2003
Heston, M.L., Dedrick, C., Raschke, D., & Whitehead, J., “Job satisfaction and stress among band directors,” Journal of Research in Music Education, 1996
Weiss, Eileen Mary, Weiss, Stephen Gary, "Beginning Teacher Induction", 1999

McGee, G.W., “Closing the Achievement Gap: Lessons from the ‘Golden Spike’ High Poverty High Performing Schools,” 2003
Billman, P., “Mission Possible: Achieving and Maintaining Academic Improvement,” 2004
Milton D. Hakel, Judith Anderson Koenig, and Stuart W. Elliott, "Assessing Accomplished Teaching: Advanced-Level Certification Programs", 2008