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Making Sense of Charter School Discipline Studies: A Reporter’s Guide

This brief provides guidance for education reporters seeking to interpret findings and draw conclusions about current school discipline research.

Understanding Student Discipline Practices in Charter Schools: A Research Agenda

CRPE convened a panel of experts to recommend a more comprehensive approach to capturing discipline data and evaluating and comparing school discipline practices.

An Alternative View on Charter Schools and Backfill

After more than 20 years of working together, Paul Hill and I have finally found something we might really disagree on. Paul has legitimate concerns about the “backfill” issue (whether charter schools should be required...

The Obligations of High-Output Charter High Schools

For good reason, the most widely admired charter high schools are the ones that take kids from the highest-risk categories (poverty, one parent, big city, black or Hispanic, male) and get them into and through...

Governance and Its Limits

Ashley Jochim explains how the formal tools of public education governance can be limited because of institutional inertia and a weak leadership pipeline in this blog originally published in Fordham’s Flypaper. The push to raise...

Lessons from the Trenches on Making School Choice Work

This blog was originally published on the Brookings Brown Center Chalkboard. In the United States, what school a child attends is determined in large part by where she lives. According to the National Center for...

Opening Doors: OneApp Improves Enrollment Process but Shows Need for More Good Schools

Bringing a greater sense of order to the school choice application and enrollment process is getting a great deal of attention these days. In the two months since we released our report on common enrollment...

The Best of Both Worlds: Can District-Charter Co-Location Be a Win-Win?

This report explores the challenges of leveraging co-location as a tool for school improvement.

The Best of Both Worlds: School District-Charter Sector Boundary Spanners

This paper explores the practice of district superintendents looking beyond the usual candidate pool and hiring administrators who have seen strong successes in the charter sector.

Backfill in Charter High Schools: Practices to Learn From and Questions to be Answered

Paul Hill and Tricia Maas explore the charter high school “backfill” issue, using interviews with charter sector leaders to understand competing perspectives and practices that support transfer students.