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Startup teacher education: A fresh take on teacher credentialing
ReportsThomas Arnett, Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation01 Mar, 2016
As education reformers across the country are working to improve student outcomes at scale, many are focusing on improving the teaching force. This case study describes how three groups of… Read more
What Matters for Student Achievement
ReportsEric A. Hanushek01 Mar, 2016
Description: Education Next compares results from James S. Coleman’s groundbreaking report (Equality of Educational Opportunity, 1966) with current findings from the field on how different… Read more
A New Wave of School Integration
ReportsHalley Potter and Kimberly Quick, with Elizabeth Davies, The Century Foundation09 Feb, 2016
Students in racially and socioeconomically integrated schools experience academic, cognitive, and social benefits that are not available to students in racially isolated, high-poverty… Read more
Harvesting Success: Charter Schools in Rural America
ReportsMukta Pandit, Ibtissam Ezzeddine05 Feb, 2016
While urban charter schools are achieving impressive gains, can charter schools improve outcomes for rural America? This topic is an important one with more than 11 million students… Read more
Evaluation of Professional Development in the Use of Arts-Integrated Activities With Mathematics Content: Findings From the Evaluation of the Wolf Trap Arts in Education Model Development and Dissemination Grant
ReportsMeredith Ludwig, Ed.D. and Mengli Song, Ph.D.19 Jan, 2016
The American Institute for Research conducted a four-year evaluation of a Wolf Trap Foundation Teacher Professional Development Program and found it had a positive impact on the math… Read more
Differing Effects from Diverse Charter Schools: Uneven Student Selection and Achievement Growth in Los Angeles
ReportsUniversity of California, Berkeley14 Dec, 2015
The Los Angeles Unified School District hosts more charter schools than any system in the nation. After tracking more than 66,000 sampled students over a four-year period, these new… Read more
Growing Movement: America’s Largest Charter School Communities
ReportsNational Alliance for Public Charter Schools10 Nov, 2015
In this report, the National Alliance collected public school enrollment data for the 2014– 15 school year to identify communities across the country where the highest proportions of… Read more
TCSA Quality Portal
Toolkits29 Oct, 2015
Mukta Pandit presented an introduction to the Texas Charter Schools Association quality portal with Laura Kelly from the Texas Charter School Association. This dashboard is a system that… Read more
The Next Wave Of Innovation In U.S. Charter Schools
ReportsThe Mind Trust and Public Impact28 Oct, 2015
In their first 24 years, public charter schools have demonstrated that they can be a significant force for improvement in U.S. public education. Despite successful growth in numbers and… Read more
Inside Online Charter Schools
ReportsBrian Gill, Lucas Walsh, Claire Smither Wulsin, Holly Matulewicz, Veronica Severn, Eric Grau, Amanda Lee, and Tess Kerwin (Mathematica Policy Research)27 Oct, 2015
Online charter schools—also known as virtual charters or cyber charters—are publicly funded schools of choice that deliver student instruction via telecommunications. Today, about 200… Read more