Patrick Shields focuses on effective educational policies for economically poor and ethnically diverse populations. He has more than 20 years of experience managing large-scale projects. MORE>>
School Reform
Program Manager - Patrick ShieldsPublic school choice is an accepted part of American education. Thirty-eight states have laws that allow the formation of charter schools, and many states have a variety of policies that allow students and their families to select the schools that children attend. The Center for Education Policy has a long history of studying policies designed to reform the K-16 system of schooling, especially improvement efforts aimed at disadvantaged students.
School Reform projects include national and state-level education reforms, such as standards and accountability or restructuring the governance of districts and schools, and school-based reforms that offer alternatives to traditional approaches and greater school choice, such as the formation of charter schools and improving the American high school. Current work focuses on efforts to create alternative “systems of schools” in urban districts and across jurisdictional boundaries.
Current Projects
- Evaluation Study of California's District Intervention and Regional Capacity Building Project
- Evaluation of CISE Pathways to Revitalized Undergraduate Computer Education
- Case Studies of Participation and Performance in the IB Diploma Programme
- Evaluation of the Texas High School Project
Past Projects
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