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Ch. 2 – Under New Management: Are Charter Schools Making the Most of New Governance Options? (HFR ’07)

This chapter of addresses three main areas of charter governance: teacher involvement, community partnerships, and charter boards.

Ch. 5 – Safety and Order in Charter and Traditional Public Schools (HFR ’07)

This chapter of examines an issue of intense interest to parents, students, and staff—school safety.

Ch. 6 – Smart Charter School Caps: A Third Way on Charter School Growth (HFR ’07)

This chapter of examines the topic of charter school caps, and issue essential to the continued expansion of charter schools nationally.

Are Public Schools Losing Their ‘Best’? Assessing the Career Transitions of Teachers and Their Implications for the Quality of the Teacher Workforce

This paper examines attrition and mobility of early-career teachers in North Carolina public schools using teacher value-added measures.

Teacher Labor Markets and the Perils of Using Hedonics to Estimate Compensating Differentials in the Public Sector

Policymakers and researchers alike have expressed concern about a teacher quality gap between schools with affluent student populations and the more disadvantaged ones. This study uses teacher and school-level data from the NCES Schools and...

Teacher Attitudes About Compensation Reform: Implications for Reform Implementation

This paper describes research designed to shed light on how teachers feel about different pay and incentive reforms.

Quantity Counts: The Growth of Charter School Management Organizations

This report analyzes why replicating successful charter schools has been tougher and more costly than expected for both for-profit and nonprofit charter management organizations (EMOs and CMOs).

District Resource Allocation Modeler (DREAM): A Web-Based Tool Supporting the Strategic Use of Educational Resources

This paper is a companion piece to the District Resource Allocation Modeler (DREAM) tool developed by Education Resource Strategies.

Two Alternative Yet Complementary Conceptual Frameworks for Financing American Education

In this working paper, Michael Kirst suggests that a productive education system would focus relatively greater resources on out-of-school interventions, especially for the most disadvantaged children. He argues that such interventions could help teachers and...

Spending Choices and School Autonomy: Lessons From Ohio Elementary Schools

This study examines resource allocation patterns across elementary schools and how these patterns differ depending, in part, on various levels of autonomy over resources at the school level.