Ch. 1 – The Charter Schools Landscape in 2005 (HFR ’05)
This chapter of Hopes, Fears, & Reality: A Balanced Look at American Charter Schools in 2005 provides overview data of American charter schools based on surveys of state agencies and state charter associations.
Ch. 2 – Assessing Achievement in Charter Schools (HFR ’05)
This chapter of Hopes, Fears, & Reality: A Balanced Look at American Charter Schools in 2005 provides a fresh perspective on the controversy over the academic performance of charter schools, concluding that the results of achievement research are not as clear as either side of the charter “dustup” would claim.
Ch. 3 – Bringing Charters to Scale (HFR ’05)
This chapter of Hopes, Fears, & Reality: A Balanced Look at American Charter Schools in 2005 identifies philosophical differences within the charter community and reviews the challenges of scaling up high performing charter schools.
Ch. 4 – The Pros & Cons of Charter School Closures (HFR ’05)
This chapter of Hopes, Fears, & Reality: A Balanced Look at American Charter Schools in 2005 extracts from California’s experience of the sudden closure of California Charter Academy to suggest how charter authorizers and school districts can avoid catastrophic school failure and sudden mass transfers of students.
Ch. 5 – Charters as a “School Turnaround” Strategy (HFR ’05)
This chapter of Hopes, Fears, & Reality: A Balanced Look at American Charter Schools in 2005 considers how school districts and charter authorizers can make distinctions between charter schools that offer valuable options to students, and those that do not.
Ch. 6 – Apples-to-Apples Fiscal Comparisons (HFR ’05)
This chapter of Hopes, Fears, & Reality: A Balanced Look at American Charter Schools in 2005 explores the details of how to compare charter school and traditional school funding.
Ch. 7 – Challenges of a Maturing Reform (HFR ’05)
This chapter of Hopes, Fears, & Reality: A Balanced Look at American Charter Schools in 2005 pulls together some of the strands of this volume, looking at the increasing pressure charter schools face to produce student achievement.
BRIEF – When Learning Counts: Rethinking Licenses for School Leaders
This Research brief summarizes the sixth and final report in the Center’s leadership series, which examines principal licensing requirements.
When Learning Counts: Rethinking Licenses for School Leaders
This report examines licensure content for principals to address whether the licenses that states require encompass the knowledge and skills principals need and how decisionmakers might rethink licenses.
