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Ch. 2 – Mastering Change: When Charter Schools and District Schools Embrace Strategic Partnership (HFR ’11)

This chapter examines factors that are driving districts to collaborate with charters, what those collaborations look like, and the politics both sides must deal with.

Ch. 1 – Assessing the Charter School Landscape (HFR ’11)

This chapter offers an overview of emerging trends in the charter school landscape.

Conclusion – Will District Collaboration Neuter or Propel the Charter School Movement? (HFR ’11)

In this chapter Robin Lake discusses the charter school side of the emerging trend toward district/charter school collaboration.

Overview – Consorting With the Enemy: When Charter Schools and District Schools Work Together (HFR ’11)

This overview of Hopes, Fears, & Reality: A Balanced Look at American Charters Schools in 2011 introduces the key areas explored in this year’s volume.

Charter-School Management Organizations: Diverse Strategies and Diverse Student Impacts

This report from the National Study of CMO Effectiveness provides key findings from the study on CMO practices, impacts, and the relationships between them. The updated report also examines longer-term impacts of CMOs on high...

Are Charter School Unions Worth the Bargain?

This study of charter school unionization compared charter school collective bargaining agreements with traditional district contracts and found that, while the new contracts innovate in many ways, they could go much further given the opportunity...

BRIEF – Charter Schools and Achievement

This brief summarizes findings from The Effect of Charter Schools on Student Achievement: a Meta-Analysis of the Literature, a detailed assessment of the literature on student achievement in charter schools.

The 7 Components of a Portfolio Strategy

This one-pager outlines the 7 key components upon which the portfolio strategy is built.

The Effect of Charter Schools on Student Achievement: A Meta-Analysis of the Literature

This report infers the causal impact of attending a charter school on student performance and finds that whether charters outperform traditional public schools depends on the location, grade, and subject.

Improving the Front-End of the Teacher and Leader Pipeline

This essay looks at the efforts in a handful of states that are moving to simultaneously reform and expand how they oversee the preparation and certification of teachers and leaders.