Sticking with It: To What Extent and Why do Schools Sustain or Discontinue Comprehensive School Reform Models?
This paper examines the issues surrounding decisions to discontinue the use of Comprehensive School Reform models by participating schools.
Key Issues in Studying Charter Schools and Achievement: A Review and Suggestions for National Guidelines
This white paper from the Charter School Achievement Consensus Panel examines the existing research on student achievement in charter schools and details how future research could be improved.
Seeing Success: The Impact of Implementing Portfolio Model Practices on Student Outcomes
This working paper evaluates the effect of implementing one of three prominent Comprehensive School Reform (CSR) models on student achievement and discipline outcomes, using a matched sample of Florida model and non-model schools.
Legal and Policy Barriers to Redesigning California High Schools
This report presents the results of an analysis of legal, regulatory, and policy barriers to high school redesign in California.
Doing School Choice Right: Preliminary Findings
This paper gives an advance report on the results of studies in the Doing School Choice Right project.
Holding Charter Authorizers Accountable: Why It Is Important and How It Might Be Done
Too many charter school authorizers aren’t fulfilling their responsibilities in providing adequate oversight for charter schools. This white paper examines the causes and consequences of poor authorizing and proposes how the problem might be fixed.
Put Learning First: A Portfolio Approach to Public Schools
This paper details the portfolio management approach—a new vision for education reform that fosters innovation, adaptability, and performance.
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.
Hopes, Fears, and Reality: A Balanced Look at American Charter Schools in 2005
This debut edition of Hopes, Fears, & Reality provides new data on many aspects of charter schools in the United States and examines issues and controversies surrounding reform.