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Academic Standards (4)

  1. Controlling Education from the Top (18374)
  2. Lowering the Bar: How Common Core Math Fails to Prepare High School Students for STEM (13167)
  3. After the Fall: Catholic Education Beyond the Common Core (10351)
  4. Common Core’s Validation: A Weak Foundation for a Crooked House (6748)

Amicus Briefs (3)

  1. Jane Doe v Peyser (1266)
  2. Branch Amicus Brief (1057)
  3. Amicus Brief: Espinoza v Montana Department of Revenue (915)

Annual Reports (4)

  1. 2012 Annual Report (1229)
  2. 1999 Annual Report (1165)
  3. 2011 Annual Report (1135)
  4. 2013 Annual Report (1086)

Better Government (4)

  1. How to Save the MBTA More Than $100 million a year (4294)
  2. Driving Critical Reforms at DCF: Ideas for a Direction Forward in Massachusetts’ Child and Family Services (4100)
  3. MassPensions.com Update on Public Retirement Systems (3347)
  4. Municipal Guide Utility (3195)

Better Government Competition (4)

  1. 2013 Better Government Competition Guidelines (2777)
  2. 2011 Better Government Competition (2752)
  3. 2010 Better Government Competition (2645)
  4. 2004 Better Government Competition (2634)

Book (2)

  1. Guide to Sound Fiscal Management for Municipalities (3207)
  2. Free Book Chapter (1043)

Charter Schools (4)

  1. Seeds of Achievement: Appletree’s Early Childhood D.C. Charter Schools (3203)
  2. Meeting the Commonwealth’s Demand: Lifting the Cap on Charter Public Schools in Massachusetts (2804)
  3. Debunking the Myths About Charter Public Schools (2759)
  4. Matching Students to Excellent Tutors: How a Massachusetts Charter School Bridges Achievement Gaps (2726)

Common Core (4)

  1. Controlling Education from the Top (18374)
  2. Lowering the Bar: How Common Core Math Fails to Prepare High School Students for STEM (13167)
  3. Common Core Facts (11737)
  4. After the Fall: Catholic Education Beyond the Common Core (10351)

Convention Center (4)

  1. If We Build It Will They Come? And Other Questions About the Proposed Boston Convention Center (2501)
  2. Flawed Forecasts: A Critical Look at Convention Center Feasibility Studies (2285)
  3. Does Boston Convention & Exhibition Center Expansion Really Pay for Itself? (2242)
  4. Analyzing the Convention Center Authority's Inflated Claims (1715)

Economic Opportunity (4)

  1. A New Start for Massachusetts Middle Cities (5403)
  2. Playing the Lottery: The Impact of Interstate Relocation on Massachusetts Jobs (2774)
  3. Ten Years Later: Trends in Urban Redevelopment (2705)
  4. Rebuilding the Ladder to Self- Sufficiency: Workfare and Welfare Reform (2621)

Education (4)

  1. Lowering the Bar: How Common Core Math Fails to Prepare High School Students for STEM (13167)
  2. Common Core Facts (11737)
  3. After the Fall: Catholic Education Beyond the Common Core (10351)
  4. Cogs in the Machine: Big Data, Common Core, and National Testing (8507)

Education Management (1)

  1. The Next Chapter of Education Funding in Massachusetts (130)

Fellowship (3)

  1. LCP Fellowship Application (586)
  2. Fellowship History (575)
  3. LCP Recommendation Form (499)

Health Care (4)

  1. Healthcare Prices for Common Procedures Are Hard for Consumers to Obtain Survey finds hospitals not prepared to give price information to consumers (3546)
  2. Baker's Dozen A Common Sense Healthcare Agenda for the Next Governor (3542)
  3. Nonprofit to For Profit Conversions in Health Care: A Review (3005)
  4. Mayor, Tear Down This Wall: Why Boston’s Ban on Convenient Care Clinics Is Costing Taxpayers Millions (2838)

Health Care Policy (Federal) (4)

  1. Healthcare Prices for Common Procedures Are Hard for Consumers to Obtain Survey finds hospitals not prepared to give price information to consumers (3546)
  2. Nonprofit to For Profit Conversions in Health Care: A Review (3005)
  3. Whistleblowers Expose the Massachusetts Connector (2682)
  4. New ACA Medicare Payroll Tax Hits Massachusetts, $1.7 Billion Over 10 Years (2619)

Health Care Policy (MA) (4)

  1. Baker's Dozen A Common Sense Healthcare Agenda for the Next Governor (3542)
  2. Nonprofit to For Profit Conversions in Health Care: A Review (3005)
  3. Mayor, Tear Down This Wall: Why Boston’s Ban on Convenient Care Clinics Is Costing Taxpayers Millions (2838)
  4. Whistleblowers Expose the Massachusetts Connector (2682)

Higher Education (4)

  1. UMass At A Crossroads Part 2 Is UMass Expansion Fiscally Sustainable? (2905)
  2. UMass At A Crossroads Part 3 UMass Growing Dependency On Tuition And Fees And Strategic Recruitment Of Out-Of-State Students (2795)
  3. UMass At A Crossroads Part 1 Is The UMass Enrollment Expansion Plan Sustainable? (2422)
  4. Differentiating Admission Standards at UMass-Amherst to Meet Out-of-State Enrollment Targets (1352)

Housing (4)

  1. Housing and Land Use Policy in Massachusetts (2482)
  2. The Power to Take: The Use of Eminent Domain in Massachusetts (2195)
  3. Housing Programs in Weak Market Neighborhoods (2044)
  4. Regulation and the Rise of Housing Prices in Greater Boston: A study based on new data from 187 communities in eastern Massachusetts (1768)

Impact Timeline (1)

  1. True North - 30 Years of Pioneer Institute (46)

Innovations in Medical Care Delivery (4)

  1. Nonprofit to For Profit Conversions in Health Care: A Review (3005)
  2. Mayor, Tear Down This Wall: Why Boston’s Ban on Convenient Care Clinics Is Costing Taxpayers Millions (2838)
  3. Business Solutions to the Health Care Crunch (2335)
  4. First Do No Harm: The Impact of the Affordable Care Act on Massachusetts’ Medical Device Industry (2333)

Interdistrict Choice & Metco (4)

  1. Expanding METCO and Closing Achievement Gaps (2643)
  2. METCO Merits More (2627)
  3. Modeling Urban Scholarship Vouchers in Massachusetts (2542)
  4. Urban and Rural Poverty and Student Achievement in Massachusetts (2072)

Life Sciences (4)

  1. Are Drug Prices Driving Healthcare Cost Growth? (2160)
  2. Transparency in Retail Drug Prices: Easy to Obtain but Accuracy May Be Doubtful (2144)
  3. Key Questions for Legislators on the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER) (1638)
  4. Will New England See Lower Prices from Drug Pricing Transparency Legislation? (1118)

Massachusetts Economy (4)

  1. Playing the Lottery: The Impact of Interstate Relocation on Massachusetts Jobs (2774)
  2. Rebuilding the Ladder to Self- Sufficiency: Workfare and Welfare Reform (2621)
  3. Measuring Up? The Cost of Doing Business in Massachusetts (2499)
  4. Back to Taxachusetts? Lessons from Connecticut (2479)

Media Guide (1)

  1. Pioneer Media Guide 2012 (550)

Miscellaneous (4)

  1. Land-Use Regulation and The Rise in Housing Prices (1744)
  2. FY2013 Form 990 (1549)
  3. FY2012 Form 990 (1387)
  4. Determination Letter (1240)

Municipal Management (4)

  1. A New Start for Massachusetts Middle Cities (5403)
  2. Guide to Sound Fiscal Management for Municipalities (3207)
  3. Municipal Guide Utility (3195)
  4. Ten Years Later: Trends in Urban Redevelopment (2705)

Pensions (4)

  1. MassPensions.com Update on Public Retirement Systems (3347)
  2. The Costs of Delaying the Funding of Public Pensions in Massachusetts (3070)
  3. Myths and Reality about MBTA Pensions (3055)
  4. MassPensions: How Difficult Is Institutional Transparency? (2828)

PioneerLegal (2)

  1. After Janus, Public Employers Must Obtain Informed Consent Before Collecting Union Dues or Agency Fees (1071)
  2. Amicus Brief: Espinoza v Montana Department of Revenue (915)

Policy Briefs (4)

  1. How to Save the MBTA More Than $100 million a year (4294)
  2. Healthcare Prices for Common Procedures Are Hard for Consumers to Obtain Survey finds hospitals not prepared to give price information to consumers (3546)
  3. Baker's Dozen A Common Sense Healthcare Agenda for the Next Governor (3542)
  4. The MBTA’s Out-of-Control Bus Maintenance Costs (3180)

Presentations (4)

  1. Pioneer Institute Report on History in Schools (2510)
  2. The Anti-Aid Amendments and School Choice (2199)
  3. Massachusetts’ New Economy (2187)
  4. Lessons from New Orleans (2063)

Price Transparency (4)

  1. Healthcare Prices for Common Procedures Are Hard for Consumers to Obtain Survey finds hospitals not prepared to give price information to consumers (3546)
  2. Mayor, Tear Down This Wall: Why Boston’s Ban on Convenient Care Clinics Is Costing Taxpayers Millions (2838)
  3. New ACA Medicare Payroll Tax Hits Massachusetts, $1.7 Billion Over 10 Years (2619)
  4. The Undisclosed Cost of Developing an Affordable Care Act State Exchange in Massachusetts (2617)

Private School Choice (4)

  1. "And You Shall Teach Them Diligently": The History and Status of Jewish Day Schools in Massachusetts (2630)
  2. Rhode Island Jewish Day Schools and Scholarship Tax Credits (2550)
  3. Be Not Afraid: A History of Catholic Schooling in Massachusetts (2438)
  4. Four Models of Catholic Schooling in Massachusetts (2273)

Public Program Reforms (4)

  1. Baker's Dozen A Common Sense Healthcare Agenda for the Next Governor (3542)
  2. Nonprofit to For Profit Conversions in Health Care: A Review (3005)
  3. Whistleblowers Expose the Massachusetts Connector (2682)
  4. Consumer Driven Health Care: A New Agenda for Cost Control in Massachusetts (2608)

Public Testimony (4)

  1. Review of Common Core Math Standards: Testimony to the California Academic Content Standards Commission (3569)
  2. Testimony to the Utah 2012 Education Interim Committee (2739)
  3. Testimony to the South Carolina Legislature’s Education Subcommittee in Support of S.604 (2367)
  4. Testimony before the Joint Committee on Public Service of the General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Regarding the Fiscal Condition of Local Retirement Systems (2249)

Regionalization Clearinghouse (4)

  1. Attleboro - North Attleborough Water Agreement (2006)
  2. Amesbury, Salisbury, and Newburyport Public Health Agreement (1955)
  3. Amesbury, Salisbury, and Newburyport Animal Control Agreement (1808)
  4. Hawlemont Regional School District GIC Consolidation Agreement (1804)

Regulations and Permitting (2)

  1. Driving Critical Reforms at DCF: Ideas for a Direction Forward in Massachusetts’ Child and Family Services (4100)
  2. Testimony Before the Joint Committee on State Administration and Regulatory Oversight Regarding Government Transparency (1502)

Roe Better Government Network Research (4)

  1. A National Market for Individual Health Insurance (2250)
  2. Health Insurance Cost Control (2235)
  3. Wellness Health Incentive Payment Program (2091)
  4. Middle School Aspirations and Pathways to College (MAPS) (1258)

School Choice (4)

  1. Seeds of Achievement: Appletree’s Early Childhood D.C. Charter Schools (3203)
  2. Meeting the Commonwealth’s Demand: Lifting the Cap on Charter Public Schools in Massachusetts (2804)
  3. Matching Students to Excellent Tutors: How a Massachusetts Charter School Bridges Achievement Gaps (2726)
  4. Matching Students to Excellent Teachers: How a Massachusetts Charter School Innovates with Teacher Preparation (2649)

State Budget (4)

  1. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Massachusetts’s 2014 Status Quo Budget (2558)
  2. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Eight Patrick Administration Budgets Later (2426)
  3. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: A 2013 Pioneer Release (2339)
  4. Government Effectiveness Index: A Cross-State Survey (2130)

Transcripts (4)

  1. Transcript: Why Huck Finn Matters: Classic Literature in Schooling (2880)
  2. The Sacred Fire of Liberty (2608)
  3. Lincoln’s Legacy for Our Time: A Transcript of Remarks Delivered by Civil War Historian James McPherson (2146)
  4. Driving Questions (2136)

Transportation (4)

  1. How to Save the MBTA More Than $100 million a year (4294)
  2. The MBTA’s Out-of-Control Bus Maintenance Costs (3180)
  3. Myths and Reality about MBTA Pensions (3055)
  4. The Pacheco Law has cost the MBTA more than $450 million - here’s the evidence. (2638)

Unfunded Liabilities (4)

  1. MassPensions.com Update on Public Retirement Systems (3347)
  2. The Costs of Delaying the Funding of Public Pensions in Massachusetts (3070)
  3. Myths and Reality about MBTA Pensions (3055)
  4. MassPensions: How Difficult Is Institutional Transparency? (2828)

Unions (3)

  1. Where Do Teacher Union Dues Go? (1201)
  2. After Janus, Public Employers Must Obtain Informed Consent Before Collecting Union Dues or Agency Fees (1071)
  3. Unions Are Not Progressive When It Comes to Their Members (971)

US History (4)

  1. Imperiling the Republic: The Fate of U.S. History Instruction under Common Core (6652)
  2. Shortchanging the Future: The Crisis of History and Civics in American Schools (4692)
  3. The Rise and Fall of the Study of American History in Massachusetts (3120)
  4. The Sacred Fire of Liberty (2608)

Virtual Learning (3)

  1. Online Learning 101: Starting a Virtual School And Its Challenges (5559)
  2. Regulating Virtual Schools (4015)
  3. Virtual Schools, Actual Learning (2142)

Voc Tech Schools (4)

  1. Vocational-Technical Education in Massachusetts (4233)
  2. Hands-On Achievement: Why Massachusetts Vocational Technical Schools Have Low Dropout Rates (3393)
  3. Expanding Access to Vocational-Technical Education in Massachusetts (2994)
  4. Filling the Skills Gap: Massachusetts Vocational-Technical Schools and Business Partnerships (2782)

White Papers (4)

  1. Controlling Education from the Top (18374)
  2. Lowering the Bar: How Common Core Math Fails to Prepare High School Students for STEM (13167)
  3. After the Fall: Catholic Education Beyond the Common Core (10351)
  4. Cogs in the Machine: Big Data, Common Core, and National Testing (8507)