Ch. 1 – Doing Their Homework: How Charter School Parents Make Their Choices (HFR ’06)
This chapter of Hopes, Fears, & Reality: A Balanced Look at American Charter Schools in 2006 reports the results from a new multi-city survey that examines how low-income parents choose charter schools.
Ch. 2 – Life After Charters: School Districts and Charter School Growth (HFR ’06)
This chapter of Hopes, Fears, & Reality: A Balanced Look at American Charter Schools in 2006 reports the results of a new study that examines how city school districts that lose students and funding to charter schools can help their schools compete.
Ch. 3 – A One-Day Ceasefire: What Charter School and Teachers Union Leaders Say When They Meet (HFR ’06)
This chapter of Hopes, Fears, & Reality: A Balanced Look at American Charter Schools in 2006 presents the results of a meeting between charter school leaders and teachers union leaders to discuss areas of agreement and disagreement.
Ch. 4 – Improving State and Local Assessments of Charter School Performance (HFR ’06)
This chapter of Hopes, Fears, & Reality: A Balanced Look at American Charter Schools in 2006 shows how states can get an honest picture of how charter schools are performing under their laws.
Ch. 5 – Charter Authorizing: It’s a Dirty Job, But Somebody’s Got to Do It (HFR ’06)
This chapter of Hopes, Fears, & Reality: A Balanced Look at American Charter Schools in 2006 reports on the preliminary results from a study of the agencies that authorize new charter schools and assess their performance.
Ch. 6 – A Better Way: Measuring Charter School Success and Failure (HFR ’06)
This chapter of Hopes, Fears, & Reality: A Balanced Look at American Charter Schools in 2006 shows how public officials, citizens, and the press can move beyond the preoccupation with test scores to begin assessing charter schools on the basis of their long-term consequences for children.
Ch. 7 – Calculating Graduation Rates: A New Challenge for Charter Schools (HFR ’06)
In this chapter of Hopes, Fears, & Reality: A Balanced Look at American Charter Schools in 2006, Mary Beth Celio contemplates the challenge of fairly measuring charter school graduation rates—an important, but rarely tracked metric of charter school success.
Hopes, Fears, & Reality: A Balanced Look at American Charter Schools in 2006
This edition of Hopes, Fears, & Reality explores some of the most controversial issues facing the charter school movement and the implications of continued growth for leading players in the charter school debates.
BRIEF – Charter School Data: What States Collect, State Data, and Implications for Research
This brief summarizes which charter school data states collect and how the limitations of those data impact the quality of charter school research. The data in this brief were collected as part of the research for Hopes, Fears, & Reality: A Balanced Look at American Charter Schools in 2006
