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A Tale of Two Grantees: How NYSED and NCDPI are Using CSP Funds to Make a Difference in Their States
A Tale of Two Grantees: How AppleTree Institute and Hiawatha Academies Are Using CSP Funds to Make a Difference in…
Don’t Stop Improving: A Strategic Approach to School Improvement Using the Four Domains
Four Domains for Significant and Sustainable Charter School Improvement: A Systems Framework for the Charter Context
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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
Measuring Up: Educational Improvement & Opportunity in 50 Cities
ReportsMichael DeArmond, Patrick Denice, Betheny Gross, Jose Hernandez, & Ashley Jochim27 Oct, 2015
This report provides a new resource for understanding the state of urban public schools in the U.S. Geared specifically toward city leaders who want to evaluate how well traditional… Read more
Online Charter School Study 2015
ReportsCREDO21 Oct, 2015
The Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO), Mathematica Policy Research, and the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) have undertaken a collection of studies to… Read more
The Policy Framework for Online Charter Schools
Reports Center on Reinventing Public Education01 Oct, 2015
The National Study of Online Charter Schools offers a rigorous analysis of the operations of online charter schools, their policy environments, and their impacts on student achievement. The… Read more
School Grades
Toolkits30 Sep, 2015
More than ever, Americans are concerned about the quality of public education, widely viewed as the foundation of economic success and upward mobility. But how can parents and communities… Read more
Advancing School Discipline Reform
ReportsGreta Colombi and David Osher01 Aug, 2015
During the past two decades, there has been an increase in exclusionary and punitive discipline in US schools. These disciplinary approaches have been discriminatory in their impacts and… Read more