Center for the Study of Education Policy
Emphasizing Research that Matters
The Center for the Study of Education Policy (CSEP) brings the results of research into the everyday world of educators, governmental leaders, and policymakers on the current and emerging policy issues affecting early childhood, K-12, and higher education.
Kindergarten Individual Development Survey webinar materials
Materials from the recent Understanding and Using KIDS Data to Improve Collaboration and Student Outcomes webinar are now posted to the B-3 Continuity Project’s website. Do you understand how your district’s KIDS data was collected and how it might be helpful for improving student outcomes? The B-3 Continuity Project and Illinois State Board of Education […]
PK-3 Teach, Lead, Grow website launched
Lisa Hood, Ph.D., is pleased to announce the unveiling of the PK-3 Teach, Lead, Grow website which grew out of the study of the 2013 Danielson Framework for Learning in Early Childhood Classrooms.
What Matters Most in Early Childhood Professional Learning
Lisa Hood, Ph.D., from the Center for the Study of Education Policy (CSEP) and Pam Rosa, Ph.D. from Rosa Educational Consulting will present What Matters Most in Early Childhood Professional Learning from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. December 3.
Multi-Tiered Systems of Support for Young Children book released
The Multi-Tiered Systems of Support for Young Children book was released this Fall co-authored by Dr. Robin Miller Young. Dr. Robin Miller Young is an assistant professor of early childhood education at Northern Illinois University. Before working at NIU, she was a consultant with the Center for the Study of Education Policy and worked on the Leadership for Integrating the Learning Continuum (LINC) Project and developed case studies of Illinois principal preparation programs when they were undertaking the program redesign.
Stone Foundation grant awarded to CSEP
The Center for the Study of Education Policy (CSEP) has received a Stone Foundation grant for $60,000 that will run from October 1, 2018, through September 29, 2019.All Center News
A Thought About Higher Education...
A new study makes a serious effort to provide a balanced non-partisan analysis of how decisions about budget reductions for public higher education affect student costs. It avoids some of the problems of more simplistic analyses and lays groundwork for further study of this issue.
What’s behind increased student college costs? One big reason...
In 2001, annual cost per student for public college tuition degree was $13,167 (state education contribution plus tuition). In 2016, cost was $13,259 (+$92 adjusting for inflation). State paid more than 70% of cost in 2001, but only 50% of cost in 2016 (SHEF report). Public colleges are less public today.