Laura Goe

Former Research Scientist,

Educational Testing Service

Laura Goe was a research scientist at the Educational Testing Service (ETS) and served as a principal investigator for the National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality (NCCTQ), a collaborative effort that included ETS among its partners. Her work focused on teacher evaluation, professional development, and educational equity. Goe began her career teaching special education at Tunica Junior High School in Mississippi before transitioning to research. At ETS, she played a key role in developing comprehensive teacher evaluation systems and authored numerous publications on teacher effectiveness and professional growth. Goe earned her MS in educational policy and leadership from the University of Memphis and her PhD in policy, organizations, measurement, and evaluation from the University of California, Berkeley.

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Contributing topics

Education finance

Educational governance & policy

Publications by Laura Goe

April 2006

Straw into Gold, Revenues into Results:

Spinning Out the Implications of the Improved School Finance

Despite the belief that increased spending leads to better educational outcomes, real expenditures per pupil have doubled since the late 1960s, yet problems in schools persist. An improved school finance approach focuses on effective resources in…

November 2004

The Unending Search for Equity

California Policy, the "Improved School Finance," and the Williams Case

This article applies the logic of the ‘‘improved’’ school finance, arguing the need to understand how resources are used at the school and classroom levels. While California policies and most court cases have been seriously inadequate from this…

March 2001

Cracks in California's Child-Care System

Spring 2001 PACE Newsletter, Volume 3, Number 1.