Publications
Publications
Published & Forthcoming
Cleveland, C., & Scherer, E. (2025). Are Students on Track? Comparing the Predictive Validity of Administrative and Survey Measures of Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills for Long-Term Outcomes. Educational Researcher, 54(4), 213-225. https://doi.org/10.3102/0013189X251321422 (Original work published 2025)
Pre-Print: https://doi.org/10.26300/hab2-1m37
Cleveland, Christopher, and Ethan Scherer. (Forthcoming). The Effects of Teacher-Student Demographic Matching on Social-Emotional Learning. Educational Policy.
Pre-Print: https://doi.org/10.26300/3xq6-4k05
Cleveland, C. (Forthcoming). Redlining. In S. Powell, M. Winn, K. Henry, & L. Winn (Ed.), Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Social Justice in Education, Race and Education (Vol. 1). Bloomsbury Publishing plc.
Revise & Resubmit
Coffey, Stephanie, and Christopher Cleveland. (2024). IncreasED: How Court Rulings Impact Special Education Identification. (EdWorkingPaper: 24 -1076). Retrieved from Annenberg Institute at Brown University: https://doi.org/10.26300/jcq4-c790
Ainsworth*, Nicholas, Christopher Cleveland, and Andrew Penner. (2024). The Effects of Response to Intervention on Disability Identification and Achievement. (EdWorkingPaper: 24-1010). Retrieved from Annenberg Institute at Brown University: https://doi.org/10.26300/72jm-2m09
Cleveland, Christopher, and Jessica Markham*. (2024). Understanding Individualized Education Program (IEP) Goals at Scale. (EdWorkingPaper: 24-992). Retrieved from Annenberg Institute at Brown University: https://doi.org/10.26300/x8j7-rv06
Also available as: Cleveland, C., & Markham-Anderson, J. (2024). Understanding Individualized Education Program (IEP) Goals at Scale. (Working Paper 2024-1). Wheelock Educational Policy Center. Available at wheelockpolicycenter.org.
Lukes, Dylan, and Christopher Cleveland. (2021). The Lingering Legacy of Redlining on School Funding, Diversity, and Performance. (EdWorkingPaper: 21-363). Retrieved from Annenberg Institute at Brown University: https://doi.org/10.26300/qeer-8c25
Under Review
Cleveland, Christopher, Lindsey Kaler, and Jessica Markham. (2025). Leveraging IEPs to Understand Special Education Services at Scale. (EdWorkingPaper: 25-1249). Retrieved from Annenberg Institute at Brown University: https://doi.org/10.26300/t22y-r243
Ainsworth*, Nicholas, Christopher Cleveland, Leah R. Clark, Jacob Hibel, Quentin Brummet, Andrew Saultz, Emily Penner, Michelle Spiegel, Paul Y. Yoo^, Juan Camilo Cristancho Amaya*, Paul Hanselman, and Andrew Penner. School-Based Disability Identification Varies by Student Family Income
Under Revision After Review
Felix, Mayara, Christopher Cleveland, and Elizabeth Setren. (2020). Charter Schools and Suspensions: Evidence from Massachusetts Chapter 222. Discussion Paper. Blueprint Labs at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. https://blueprintlabs.mit.edu/research/charter-schools-and-suspensions-evidence-from-massachusetts-chapter-222/
Cleveland, Christopher. Gifted or Gone: The Effects of Gifted Education on Public School Enrollment and Achievement.
Cleveland, Christopher and Dylan Lukes. Cell Phone Bans, Student Behavior, and School Culture.
Working
Cleveland, Christopher. Rethinking Discipline: The Effects of State Discipline Reform Laws on Students.
Cleveland, Christopher, Lindsey Kaler^, and Sarah Caroleo^. Examining the Variation in IEP Services’ Cycles, Frequencies, and Minutes.
Co-authors: *Student, ^Postdoc
Lu, A., Rouhanifard, P., Cleveland, C., Gilbert, E., & Loeb, S. (2025). The Key Resource of Time: Master Schedules and Effective Allocation of Students and Educators. National Student Support Accelerator. Stanford University. Link
King-Smith, A., Chang, B., & Cleveland, C. (2023). Equity Is More Than an Office: How to Forge an Equity-Centered Strategic Plan That Works. Education Resource Strategies. Link
Chang, B. & Cleveland, C. (2023). From Equity Officer to Strategic Resource Equity Leader: A 3-Step Process for Making the Shift. Education Resource Strategies. Link
Education Resource Strategies and The Education Trust (2022). Alliance for Resource Equity Toolkit. Alliance for Resource Equity. Link; Education Combination; Diagnostic; Guidebooks
Cleveland, C. (2021). Test Failure and Special Education Provision. Rennie Center for Education Research & Policy. Link
Cleveland, C. and Rosenberg, D. (2021). Organizing Resources to Support Inclusion Models for Students with Disabilities. Education Resource Strategies. Link
District Management Group and The Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. (2019). “Resource Allocation and District Action Reports (RADAR).” Link
District Management Group and The Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. (2019). “Resource Reallocation to District Priorities: Case Studies.” Link
Cleveland, C., Kim, J., and Wiernusz, M. “Creating a Performance-Based Teacher Compensation System at Gwinnett County Public Schools (GA).” The District Management Journal, Vol. 25, p. 28-44, Spring 2019. Link
Cleveland, C., and Ribnick, S. “Massachusetts Puts Resource Allocation on the RADAR.” The District Management Journal, Vol. 22, p.51-54, Fall 2017. Link
Cleveland, C., and Kim, J. “Innovating with Impact.” The District Management Journal, Vol. 21, p.12-27, Spring 2017. Link
Cleveland, C., and Levenson, N. “Improving Special Education: DMC’s Best Practices for Cost-Effectively Raising Achievement.” The District Management Journal, Vol. 20, p.12-27, Fall 2016. Link