Sentences with phrase «studying charter schools»

In studying charter schools nationally, Paul Hill of the University of Washington observed in 2008 that, while money doesn't assure educational success, it's needed to innovate successfully.

CCS is a virtual independent study charter school serving grades TK - 12.

«I think my best qualification is that I have studied the charter schools that have worked and I know how difficult it is to make any school be successful,» Finne said.

«We do need more innovation in the suburbs, and we need different kinds of schools to match a variety of student interests and family preferences,» says Bruce Fuller of the University of California at Berkeley, who has studied charter schools.

Study the charter school's website so you have a good understanding of their mission, educational focus and culture.

Of course, given that I've studied charter schools for nearly 20 years, I know that there are many low - performing ones.

Researchers should identify and study charter schools that demonstrate an exemplary school climate, including the infrequent use of disciplinary exclusion.

CCS is a virtual independent study charter school serving grades TK - 12 with a scholar enrollment of over 1,000.

Gary Miron, a Western Michigan University researcher who has studied charter schools in the state, said their progress is partly explained by the fact that scores at most charters still trail far behind the state average.

Wilson and Carlsen (2016) study charter school websites as tools for signaling fit, and they find that these websites use implicit discourses involving race, culture, diversity, and academic achievement.

Not exact matches

The state has revoked the teaching license of Christopher Fisher, 31, who was a social studies instructor at Quantum High, a charter school in Boynton...

The researchers hope to continue this study during this academic year and branch out to alternative, charter, technical, and magnet schools.

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.

The IBO study estimated the per student cost for charters located in city facilities was $ 16,011 compared to $ 16,660 for district public schools — or $ 449 less.

Charter schools offered free space in city educational facilities are actually a bargain for New York taxpayers, a new study shows.

Sydney McLeod kept up her studies at Success Academy Charter Schools despite extensive absences to treat her sickle cell anemia.

A new study says that on average, New York City charter school students show growth equal to 23 extra days of learning in reading and 63 more days in math each year, compared with similar students in traditional public schools.

Until it assumed a university status in September 2008 following the receipt of a Presidential Charter, the school was called Institute of Professional Studies (IPS).

An Independent Budget Office study suggested that charter schools actually get more overall aid than regular public schools when factoring in the free rent or subsidy they receive from the city.

Studies have shown that charter schools improve student performance.

In September, parents and teachers in the building's three district schools — the School for International Studies, the Brooklyn School for Global Studies and District 75's PS 368 — saw that the charter school had new light fixtures and complained that the charter had received preferential treaSchool for International Studies, the Brooklyn School for Global Studies and District 75's PS 368 — saw that the charter school had new light fixtures and complained that the charter had received preferential treaSchool for Global Studies and District 75's PS 368 — saw that the charter school had new light fixtures and complained that the charter had received preferential treaschool had new light fixtures and complained that the charter had received preferential treatment.

A new study suggests that charter school students are more likely to do well at college and earn significantly more than their counterparts at other schools.

The public schools in eight states — Florida, Idaho, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Utah — and the charter schools in a number of others, for example, recognize the guided self - study program of the American Board for Certification of Teacher Excellence.

In the current study, the researchers analyzed data from 1.7 million K - 12 students in Ohio who attended a traditional public school, charter school, or an online charter school between the 2009 - 10 and 2012 - 13 school years.

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.

Online charter school enrollment grew around 60 percent during the period studied, from approximately 22,000 students in 2010 to over 35,000 students in 2013, with high schools making up the majority of online charter enrollment.

Low - income minority adolescents who were admitted to high - performing public charter high schools in Los Angeles were significantly less likely to engage in risky health behaviors than their peers who were not admitted to those schools, according to a new UCLA - led study.

«Over the years, a program that is similar to those employed in private charter schools has been implemented, but the results of this study can not be extrapolated to those schools because it is not clear that they have the same level of teachers prepared to implement the program,» the professor states.

It has also reviewed hundreds of thousands of reports to aid in distinguishing the best - quality research from weaker work, including studies on such subjects as the effectiveness of charter schools and merit pay for teachers, which have informed the ongoing debate about these issues.

In examining the causes of charter school closures in the United States, former National Charter Schools Institute CEO Brian Carpenter reported in 2008 that low enrollment was pivotal in the demise of almost three - fourths of the 100 cases he scharter school closures in the United States, former National Charter Schools Institute CEO Brian Carpenter reported in 2008 that low enrollment was pivotal in the demise of almost three - fourths of the 100 cases he sCharter Schools Institute CEO Brian Carpenter reported in 2008 that low enrollment was pivotal in the demise of almost three - fourths of the 100 cases he studied.

The United Federation of Teachers Elementary Charter School has declined to participate in the study so far, but it does not yet have any students in test - taking grades.

Ron Zimmer, of the RAND Corporation, and two colleagues studied the impact of charters in Michigan, one of the most chartered states in the nation, and determined that private schools were taking as big a hit as traditional public schools because of charters.

The study included 1,205 students at five urban middle schools in the same charter system.

In four studies, charter school programs that produce impressive test score gains appear to yield no or little improvement in educational attainment.

CREDO had done a national study that found more charters doing badly compared to their feeder schools from the traditional public sector, and an NBER study in New York City found substantially better performance of charters versus traditional public schools.

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.

I've identified 10 rigorously designed studies of charter and private school choice programs with later life outcomes.

Five years of studies on charter schools prove they are meeting the needs of traditionally underserved children and forcing regular public schools to change for the better, the Center for Education Reform concludes in a report released last week.

The [RAND] study determined that in five of the seven locales, the movement of black students to charter schools meant these students attended more segregated schools (Zimmer, et al., 2009; see also Bifulco & Ladd, 2007).

[5] This central finding, together with our study, only reinforces our ultimate conclusion: it is critical to consider what kinds of choices we are offering families in urban, suburban and rural areas across the country, and in charter or traditional public schools alike.

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.

[2] We also cited a study from Arizona that found that charter schools within one traditional public school district pulled students from 21 distinct districts.

Rather, we found that the particular charter schools in the Boston area (especially those that were part of the lottery study) seem to be having large impacts on student achievement.

The New York Center for Autism Charter School is not included in the study because it serves a very special population and is not compatible with many elements of the study.

Our study data are collected as follows: First, the information from each charter school application is sent to the New York City Department of Education for inclusion in its administrative database.

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.

Despite the united front of opposition, with studies like Carol Klein's 2006 Virtual Charter Schools and Home Schooling finding high levels of parent satisfaction and student achievement at virtual schools, it is highly unlikely that independent home schoolers and advocates for traditional public schools will be able to stoSchools and Home Schooling finding high levels of parent satisfaction and student achievement at virtual schools, it is highly unlikely that independent home schoolers and advocates for traditional public schools will be able to stoschools, it is highly unlikely that independent home schoolers and advocates for traditional public schools will be able to stoschools will be able to stop them.

The study reported here thus differs from virtually all other published research on charter schools in its reliance on experimental methods to determine the schools» effectiveness.

There were two major differences among the studies: they used different evaluation methodologies, and they analyzed different sets of charter schools.