This report focuses on the evidence to date on how students with special needs fare under choice, and promising new ideas that have yet to be tried.
The world is changing. It is long past time for public education to change as well.
Our current research centers on the changing education landscape in our post-pandemic world and how school systems can meet the ever-evolving needs of students. This includes work in innovative school solutions, responsive systems and policies, workforce innovation, community-led solutions, and the advent of AI.
This report focuses on the evidence to date on how students with special needs fare under choice, and promising new ideas that have yet to be tried.
In 2010, New York City’s Department of Education created the Innovation Zone to employ cutting edge technology to solve students’ most persistent learning problems. This study analyzes the iZone’s impact so far.
In this one-page brief, Robin Lake summarizes key lessons for creating high-quality charter schools.
In April 2010, the Center on Reinventing Public Education and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation convened a group of researchers and financial analysts to discuss how to better understand the financing and sustainability of...
This one-page brief summarizes a working paper that examines the variation in charter school performance in one state to assess one of the key levers of charter school policy: the decision about which types of...
This brief summarizes the findings and recommendations from a larger report, which finds that many charter schools are unprepared when it comes to leadership turnover.
This brief describes how a different method of supplying benefits to employees might work for districts: cafeteria plans. While typical school district plans offer a one-size-fits-all package of benefits to employees, cafeteria plans allow employees...
In this working paper the authors use student data from Ohio to compare the effectiveness of various types of charter school authorizers.
A look at New York City and Washington, D.C., this paper shows how portfolio—and perhaps traditional—districts can transform talent management from a bureaucratic staffing system into a core leadership function.
This report, part of a four-year study of charter school teachers and leaders, finds that many charter schools are unprepared when it comes to leadership turnover.
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