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Welcome to Policy Analysis for California Education
What's New at PACE
 Reshaping Teacher Policies to Improve Student Achievement
In a new PACE Policy Brief, Julia E. Koppich puts forward a set of policy recommendations aimed at improving the quality of teaching in California’s schools. She argues that California can help to bring about sustained improvement in teaching and learning by experimenting with new policies in several areas, including professional development, evaluation, compensation, and the structure of teachers’ careers. (Read more and download the PDF HERE)
The California Dropout Research Project at UC Santa Barbara has published a policy brief that investigates why students drop out by asking 133 predominately Latino California ninth graders across the state about the factors they see as motivating them towards or alienating them from finishing high school. Giving a Student Voice to California's Dropout Crisis, by PACE researchers Margaret Bridges, Stefan Brauckmann, Oscar Medina, Laurie Mireles, Angeline Spain, and Bruce Fuller can be found HERE.
In late February PACE Executive Director David Plank was a guest on KQED's Forum radio show discussing the potential impact of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's proposed $4.8 billion in cuts to public schools. The entire show can be heard HERE.
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