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The Death Spiral: Identifying Early Indicators of Distress in Charter Schools (A Conversation with Authorizers)
Critical Questions and Steps for Leaders to Reduce or End School-Based Policing
Charting the Course to Equity: K-12 Leaders of Color and Student Success
A Tale of Two Grantees: How AppleTree Institute and Hiawatha Academies Are Using CSP Funds to Make a Difference in…
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Status and Trends in the Education of Racial and Ethnic Groups 2016
ReportsInstitute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics01 Aug, 2016
Status and Trends in the Education of Racial and Ethnic Groups examines the educational progress and challenges students face in the United States by race/ethnicity. This report shows that… Read more
Charter School Discipline Toolkit: A Toolkit for Charter School Leaders
ToolkitsSuzie Kim, Safal Partners28 Jun, 2016
The NCSRC presents a toolkit on ways that school leaders can rethink student discipline and school climate. The five enabling factors in the planning and implementation of discipline reform… Read more
2016 National Charter Schools Conference
Event26 Jun, 2016 to 29 Jun, 2016
The National Alliance of Public Charter Schools will be open for session proposals at its 2016 conference in October 2015. More information at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCLcVZrkkig
Promising Practices: Intersection of Rapid Charter School Growth and Increased Accountability for Special Education Prompts Action: The Utah Strong Start Academy
ReportsNational Center for Special Education in Charter Schools02 May, 2016
Two distinct forces recently converged in Utah that led to the Board of Education office creating a training and mentoring program for new special education administrators and teachers:… Read more
Case Study: AppleTree
Case Study06 Apr, 2016
The National Charter School Resource Center (NCSRC) recently observed a successful and expanding network of charter schools for three- and four-year-olds and documented findings in a… Read more
The Tennessee Achievement School District: Race, History, and The Dilemma of Public Engagement
ReportsJoshua L. Glazer and Cori Egan26 Feb, 2016
In this report, researchers at George Washington University focus primarily on the challenges the Achievement School District is seeing in garnering community support.
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
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
Identifying, Selecting, and Retaining School Turnaround Leaders: How-To Modules
ToolkitsThe Center on School Turnaround at WestEd12 Oct, 2015
To date, the range of efforts to turn around the nation’s low-performing schools has shown mixed results. A significant part of the challenge has been the lack of turnaround leaders… Read more
Charters without Borders
ReportsHalley Potter, The Century Foundation01 Oct, 2015
Today—just like in 1966 or 2011—it is pretty much universally recognized that the school a child attends has a huge impact on that child’s educational opportunities, but the truth is that,… Read more