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.
Too many charter school authorizers aren’t fulfilling their responsibilities in providing adequate oversight for charter schools. This white paper examines the causes and consequences of poor authorizing and proposes how the problem might be fixed....
This Research brief summarizes the sixth and final report in the Center’s leadership series, which examines principal licensing requirements.
This report examines licensure content for principals to address whether the licenses that states require encompass the knowledge and skills principals need and how decisionmakers might rethink licenses.
This chapter of Hopes, Fears, & Reality: A Balanced Look at American Charter Schools in 2005 provides overview data of American charter schools based on surveys of state agencies and state charter associations.
This chapter of Hopes, Fears, & Reality: A Balanced Look at American Charter Schools in 2005 provides a fresh perspective on the controversy over the academic performance of charter schools, concluding that the results of...
This chapter of Hopes, Fears, & Reality: A Balanced Look at American Charter Schools in 2005 identifies philosophical differences within the charter community and reviews the challenges of scaling up high performing charter schools.
This chapter of Hopes, Fears, & Reality: A Balanced Look at American Charter Schools in 2005 extracts from California’s experience of the sudden closure of California Charter Academy to suggest how charter authorizers and school...
This chapter of Hopes, Fears, & Reality: A Balanced Look at American Charter Schools in 2005 considers how school districts and charter authorizers can make distinctions between charter schools that offer valuable options to students,...
This chapter of Hopes, Fears, & Reality: A Balanced Look at American Charter Schools in 2005 explores the details of how to compare charter school and traditional school funding.
This chapter of Hopes, Fears, & Reality: A Balanced Look at American Charter Schools in 2005 pulls together some of the strands of this volume, looking at the increasing pressure charter schools face to produce...
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