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Spin Cycle: How Research Gets Used in Policy Debates: The Case of Charter Schools (Russell Sage Foundation, 2008) focuses on the controversy surrounding the charter school study by the American Federation of Teachers and its implications for understanding politics, politicization, and the use of research to inform public discourse; it won the American Educational Research Association's Outstanding Book Award in 2010.

The five Massachusetts charter schools studied by Merseth et al. (2009), four of which appear in our study, have a longer school day and year than traditional public schools.

Not exact matches

Charter schools in New York City receive almost $ 5,000 less per student each year than traditional schools, according to a study to be released today by researchers at the University of Arkansas.

Despite dramatic growth in enrollment in online charter schools in Ohio, students are not achieving the same academic success as those in brick - and - mortar charter and public schools, finds a study by NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development and RAND Corporation.

The decade between 1999 and 2009 saw a dramatic expansion in CMO schools, with increases of approximately 20 percent per year, a higher growth rate than seen by independent charter schools, according to a recent study by Mathematica Policy Research.

Numerous studies, including six separate analyses by the U.S. Department of Education (each of which relied on state - level data), have concluded that charter schools are more segregated than traditional public schools.

On January 6, a team of researchers, led by Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor Thomas Kane and MIT Professor Joshua Angrist, released the results of a study of Boston's charter, pilot, and traditional public schools.

In a recent study called «Sector Switchers: Why Catholic Schools Convert to Charters and What Happens Next,» Andrew Kelly and I examined a set of schools that tried to get the best of both educational worlds by «converting» from Catholic schools to charter schools when their enrollment dipped below sustainable Schools Convert to Charters and What Happens Next,» Andrew Kelly and I examined a set of schools that tried to get the best of both educational worlds by «converting» from Catholic schools to charter schools when their enrollment dipped below sustainable schools that tried to get the best of both educational worlds by «converting» from Catholic schools to charter schools when their enrollment dipped below sustainable schools to charter schools when their enrollment dipped below sustainable schools when their enrollment dipped below sustainable levels.

When studying the pattern of charter school enrollment across the country, we took into account how each of three factors contributes to or retards charter school growth: per pupil expenditures (also measured during the 1989 — 90 school year), length of time a charter law was on the books, and degree of permissiveness of each state's charter school law, as measured by the CER index.

An Ernst & Young study of 430 loan transactions by 15 community - development financial institutions (CDFIs) involving 336 charter schools found a foreclosure rate of 1 percent, lower than the corporate sector debt - default rate of about 3 percent.

The Mathematica study of charter middle schools, just released by the U. S. Department of Education, finds no achievement gains within two years for students who won the charter lottery as compared to those who did not.

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The study was designed as a gold - standard randomized field trial, in which students were (by means of a lottery) randomly given the opportunity to go to charter schools or not.

Over the past few years, several studies of charter school performance in Boston have been conducted by a variety of researchers using different methodologies.

A 2014 study by Denver's Donnell - Kay Foundation concluded that the charter schools account for most of the steady increase in test scores within Denver Public Schoolsschools account for most of the steady increase in test scores within Denver Public SchoolsSchools (DPS).

Thus, the NYC study can be thought of as proof that the best charter schools, as judged by parents, can dramatically outperform the alternative traditional school.

The studies, «What Do Parents Think of Their Children's Schools: EdNext poll compares charter, district, and private schools nationwide,» by Samuel Barrows, Paul E. Peterson, and Martin R. West and «How Satisfied are Parents from Various Backgrounds with Their Children's SSchools: EdNext poll compares charter, district, and private schools nationwide,» by Samuel Barrows, Paul E. Peterson, and Martin R. West and «How Satisfied are Parents from Various Backgrounds with Their Children's Sschools nationwide,» by Samuel Barrows, Paul E. Peterson, and Martin R. West and «How Satisfied are Parents from Various Backgrounds with Their Children's SchoolsSchools?

In this part of our study, we compared states based on the rating of their laws by CER, which is an advocacy organization for charter schools.

To do that, supporters of charter schools also have to refrain from citing weaker evidence, which only serves to legitimize the use of inferior studies by charter opponents.

The editorial cites a new study by the California Charter Schools Association which studied the state's Academic Performance Index (API), which runs on a scale from 200 to 1000, and found that, according to the Journal,

Unlike other nonexperimental studies of charter school impacts, our study therefore addresses student self - selection into charter schools directly by ensuring that the comparison students as well as the treatment students were once charter choosers.

According to a recent study by the Center on Reinventing Public Education, by 2008 CMOs accounted for more than 10 percent of the charter school market and had been the beneficiaries of at least $ 500 million in private philanthropy.

A new Brookings study by Russ Whitehurst and Michelle Croft finds that students attending the charter school connected with the Harlem Children's Zone do not outperform students at other New York City charter schools, but Jay Mathews warns that it is too soon to draw conclusions about the impact of the HCZ's services.

The truth is that virtual schooling is more like a hybrid of public, charter, and home schooling, with ample dashes of tutoring and independent study thrown in, all turbocharged by Internet technology.

However, the results of such experimental studies apply only to the programs offered by and the type of students who apply to the specific oversubscribed charter schools evaluated.

A 2015 study by Stanford University's Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) found Newark charter schools outperformed traditional district schools: 77 percent of Newark's charters were more effective at raising test scores in reading, and 69 percent were more effective at raising scores in math.

Another study, by Michigan's Mackinac Center for Public Policy, found positive, but by their admission «not great,» results: Detroit charter high schools performed somewhat better than predicted based on their socioeconomic makeup, while Detroit Public Schools performed worse than preschools performed somewhat better than predicted based on their socioeconomic makeup, while Detroit Public Schools performed worse than preSchools performed worse than predicted.

In particular, the study examines ratings derived from criteria favored by the National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NACSA) to see if they are predictive of test score growth or enrollment growth.

The study — part of a larger report put out by the National Charter School Research Project at the Seattle - based Center on Reinventing Public Education — found, for instance, that charter school parents are Charter School Research Project at the Seattle - based Center on Reinventing Public Education — found, for instance, that charter school parents are jSchool Research Project at the Seattle - based Center on Reinventing Public Education — found, for instance, that charter school parents are charter school parents are jschool parents are just...

This approach, which is used by Caroline Hoxby and Jonah Rockoff in their study of charter schools in Chicago (see «Findings from the City of Big Shoulders»), is useful for determining if a particular charter school or the education program it offered is effective.

However, not long ago, a study by the Brookings Institution's Russ Whitehurst demonstrated that curriculum has an even greater effect on student outcomes than most popular policy levers, including charter schools, teacher quality, preschool programs, and even standards themselves.

Kahlenberg and Potter acknowledge the CRP's methodological problems, but dig the ditch deeper by citing one article that appeared in this journal and eviscerated the CRP's study (see «A Closer Look at Charter Schools and Segregation,» check the facts, Summer 2010) and a 2010 study looking at racial enrollment patterns among charter schools managed by for - profit management organizations, which represent just 12 percent of the charter sector natiCharter Schools and Segregation,» check the facts, Summer 2010) and a 2010 study looking at racial enrollment patterns among charter schools managed by for - profit management organizations, which represent just 12 percent of the charter sector natiSchools and Segregation,» check the facts, Summer 2010) and a 2010 study looking at racial enrollment patterns among charter schools managed by for - profit management organizations, which represent just 12 percent of the charter sector naticharter schools managed by for - profit management organizations, which represent just 12 percent of the charter sector natischools managed by for - profit management organizations, which represent just 12 percent of the charter sector naticharter sector nationally.

Open Education: Students at Robert F. Kennedy Charter High School, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, designed study areas that reflect the belief that true learning can not be compartmentalized by subject.

A study of test scores from 2010 through 2014, by economists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Duke University, found that Denver's charters produced «remarkably large gains in math,» large gains in writing, and smaller but statistically significant gains in reading, compared to DPS - operated schools.

Released today by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes, at Stanford University, the study comes as a growing number of school districts and charter schools around the country are experimenting with such reward programs in the hope of improving...

Importantly, the association's charges are supported by a 2013 school - finance study commissioned by D.C. mayor Vincent Gray, which found that «differences in the level of resources allocated to District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) and public charter schools have been particularly concerning.Schools (DCPS) and public charter schools have been particularly concerning.schools have been particularly concerning.»

A study released earlier this month by Mathematica finds that students attending charter high schools in Florida scored lower on achievement tests than students in traditional public schools, but years later, the charter students were more likely to have attended at least two years of college and also had higher earnings.

Such studies, which compare the annual gains made by students in charter schools with the gains made by the same student while attending a traditional public school, draw only on the experiences of students who were tested for at least two years in the regular public schools before attending a charter school.

The authors of the new study modified the analysis conducted by the CRP so that the percentage of students in segregated charter schools in just the central city would be compared to the percentage of students in segregated traditional public schools within the same central city for 8 large metropolitan areas.

Unlike a badly designed charter school study recently released by Mathematica, which compared students who changed schools with those who did not, MDRC studied only students who moved to a new school regardless of whether they attended a small one or went elsewhere.

Scott Milliman and I found, after correcting for this and other errors, that one of the key studies cited by the AFT as alleging racial concentration in charter schools in fact found charter schools no more segregated than district schools, with the notable exception of those charters that had converted from private schools.

On this last point, a fantastic new study by Michael McShane and Jenn Hatfield shows that chartering is producing a wide variety of schools in city after city (contra claims that charters are cookie - cutter).

For example, the quasi-experimental study by economists Tom Kane and Josh Angrist on Boston charter schools, which compared the winners and losers of charter admission lotteries, helped change the Massachusetts law that had blocked the creation of new charters.

In our study, we overcome this challenge by exploiting a feature common to most charter schools: the lottery that schools use to admit students when they have more applicants than spaces.

As a result, the studies cited by the AFT compare many charter schools in their first or second year with district schools with decades of experience and deep pockets behind them.

A new study by Mathematica examines how the KIPP charter network fared during a period of rapid growth, when enrollment in KIPP schools roughly doubled to 68,000 students after the network received a $ 50 million expansion grant from the U.S. Department of Education in 2010.

After A Nation At Risk and myriad other studies and reports called for sweeping K — 12 reforms, he tried again with a 1988 treatise called Education by Charter: Restructuring School Districts.

The Institute of Education Sciences study headed up by Patrick Wolf found students more likely to graduate from voucher schools in Washington, D. C. Kevin Booker, Tim R. Sass, Brian Gill and Ron Zimmer found the same for charter schools in Chicago and Florida.

The study, conducted by Stanford University researcher Caroline M. Hoxby and her co-authors Sonali Mararka and Jenny Kang, is based on eight years of data for students applying to the city's growing number of charter schools.

A study released Aug. 24 by the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation shows significant differences in per - pupil revenues available to regular public and charter schools.