In this overview of the 2009 edition of Hopes, Fears, & Reality Robin Lake explores whether attention from President Barack Obama and his Department of Education will help move charters from the margins to the...
CRPE’s research examines both the promise and the challenges of charter schools and school choice, with a focus on how they can expand opportunity, drive innovation, and better serve diverse student needs. We study charter schools alongside district schools and other models, highlighting lessons that can inform the broader system. New data and evidence help innovators across the country collaborate, communicate, and develop best practices.
In this overview of the 2009 edition of Hopes, Fears, & Reality Robin Lake explores whether attention from President Barack Obama and his Department of Education will help move charters from the margins to the...
In this chapter, Christine Campbell explores an underutilized opportunity for strengthening charter schools: addressing the quality of charter school governing boards.
In this chapter, Robin Lake takes up the questions of whether and how charter schools can prompt school districts to become more innovative and performance-oriented.
In this chapter, Mitch Price considers whether charter schools can coexist with teachers unions and perhaps even provide innovative models for shaping productive new union contracts.
In this chapter Katherine Merseth of Harvard University looks at charter schools as an important new model for urban schooling, outlining the essential components found in a number of high-performing Boston charter schools.
In this chapter, Terry Ryan of the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation looks into charters as a school turnaround strategy drawing on Fordham’s experience with sponsoring a charter school in Ohio.
In this chapter, Jon Christensen, Jacqueline Meijer-Irons, and Robin Lake lay out the basic data on charter school growth from 2004-2009.
This edition of Hopes, Fears, & Reality explores the lessons high-performing charter schools offer for other public schools, including the alignment of lesson content with state curriculum, frequent formative assessment mirroring high-stakes tests, and the...
This white paper explores the alternative path to graduation that charter high schools make possible.
Study on four urban school districts experimenting with new school designs and new ways of holding schools accountable for performance by implementing a “portfolio strategy.”
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