My latest book, Sustaining the New Economy: Work, Family, and Community in the Information Age is available at Amazon.com, at bookstores, and from Harvard University Press and the Russell Sage Foundation, the co-publishers.
I will put a summary of the book up shortly as a paper on this website.

I have just completed a series of papers with Patrick McEwan on the Chilean voucher plan,analyzing the relative effectiveness of different kinds of private schools compared to public, the effects of competition on the achievement of students in public school, and also estimating patterns of choice among private and public schools by Chilean families with differing socio-economic characteristics. We will post these papers as soon as they are revised. So stay tuned.

A group of students and I are also in the process of writing a series of papers comparing educational reforms in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay. Luis Benveniste has analyzed the politics of testing in the three countries; Diana Rhoten is using a political economy model to compare the interpretation of the reforms at bureaucratic levels, from ministries of education down to the schools in various provinces and municipalities; Patrick McEwan is analyzing the role and relative effectiveness of private and public schools in Chile and Argentina and Paula Razquin is estimating  teacher pay and how it changed during the reform process in all three countries.

Susanna Loeb, Tiffany Smith and I have finished a paper on the effect of standards-driven reforms on high school dropouts in the state of Texas. This paper will be up on this web site very soon.

To get a recent publication, Can Public Schools Learn from Private Schools? (with Richard Rothstein and Luis
Benveniste) contact the Economic Policy Institute at www.epinet.org.