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Education Working Paper
No. 7 December 2004
An Evaluation of Florida’s Program
to End Social Promotion
About the Authors
Jay P. Greene is a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute's Education Research Office, where he conducts research and writes about education policy. He has conducted evaluations of school choice and accountability programs in Florida, Charlotte, Milwaukee, Cleveland, and San Antonio. He has also recently published research on high school graduation rates, charter schools, and special education.
His research was cited four times in the Supreme Court's opinions in the landmark Zelman v. Simmons-Harris case on school vouchers. His articles have appeared in policy journals, such as The Public Interest, City Journal, and Education Next, in academic journals, such as The Georgetown Public Policy Review, Education and Urban Society, and The British Journal of Political Science, as well as in major newspapers, such as the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post.
Greene has been a professor of government at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Houston. He received his B.A. in history from Tufts University in 1988 and his Ph.D. from the Government Department at Harvard University in 1995. He lives with his wife and three children in Weston, Florida.
Marcus A. Winters is a research associate at the Manhattan Institute’s Education Research Office, where he studies and writes on education policy. He has co-authored several studies on a variety of education policy issues including high-stakes testing, charter schools, and the effects of vouchers on the public school system. His op-ed articles have appeared in numerous newspapers, including the Washington Post, the Christian Science Monitor, and the San Francisco Chronicle. He received his B.A. in political science with departmental honors from Ohio University in 2002.
Acknowledgments
The authors would like to thank the Florida Department of Education, especially the staff and administration of its K-20 Data Warehouse, for compiling and making available the data necessary for this study.
About Education Working Papers
A working paper is a common way for academic researchers to make the results of their studies available to others as early as possible. This allows other academics and the public to benefit from having the research available without unnecessary delay. Working papers are often submitted to peer-reviewed academic journals for later publication.
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