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Students more likely to leave schools that get 'bad news' about test scores / Jan 2010

Inclusion of special education students doesn’t affect classmates’ education / Dec 2009

Allaying concerns about peer effects among Aboriginal students / Nov 2009

Supplementary funding boosts Aboriginal literacy skills / Sept 2009

  Relevant research   How effective are supplementary funding policies? Does student diversity change the attitudes of different groups towards one another? What role do school rankings play in school choice? CERP helps answer these and other questions with solid, quantitative research.  
   
Reliable research   Figuring out the difference made by various education policies can be challenging, given the many other variables having an effect at the same time. CERP combines access to excellent data with the expertise to build models that produce the most reliable possible results.  
   
Accessible research   Good quantitative policy research is often highly complex. Because everyone has a stake in understanding what research can tell us about effective educational policies, CERP takes pains to communicate its work in as accessible a way as possible.  
   
Ethical research   CERP is interested in programs and policies, not individuals or schools. The data we use is anonymous and strongly protected. Our work is vetted by SFU's Office of Research Ethics to assure the highest ethical standards and protection of privacy.