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Charter Oak State College [web site] [Harvested on 2012: Dec. 12]
No full textUpdated irregularly; Title from home page (publisher's Web site, viewed Apr. 12, 2011).; Official website of Charter Oak State College. Provides information about Connecticut's public online college offering bachelor's and associate degree completion programs for adults.; Harvested from the web on 12/12/1
Charter Oak State College [web site] [Harvested on 2011: Apr. 15]
No full textUpdated irregularly; Title from home page (publisher's Web site, viewed Apr. 12, 2011).; Official website of Charter Oak State College. Provides information about Connecticut's public online college offering bachelor's and associate degree completion programs for adults.; Harvested from the web on 4/15/1
Board briefs (Arizona. State Board for Charter Schools)
No full textWelcome to the first issue of Board Briefs, a publication of the Arizona State Board for Charter Schools. The purpose of this brief is to provide accurate, timely information to the charter community, the legislature, and to the general public on the current news and activities of this Board and the charter schools we sponsor
Explaining Charter School Effectiveness
Full text linkEstimates using admissions lotteries suggest that urban charter schools boost student achievement, while charter schools in other settings do not. We explore student-level and school-level explanations for these differences using a large sample of Massachusetts charter schools. Our results show that urban charter schools boost achievement well beyond ambient non-charter levels (that is, the average achievement level for urban non-charter students), and beyond non-urban achievement in math. Student demographics explain some of these gains since urban charters are most effective for non-whites and low-baseline achievers. At the same time, non-urban charter schools are uniformly ineffective. Our estimates also reveal important school-level heterogeneity in the urban charter sample. A non-lottery analysis suggests that urban schools with binding, well-documented admissions lotteries generate larger score gains than under-subscribed urban charter schools with poor lottery records. We link the magnitude of charter impacts to distinctive pedagogical features of urban charters such as the length of the school day and school philosophy. The relative effectiveness of urban lottery-sample charters is accounted for by over-subscribed urban schools' embrace of the No Excuses approach to education.
Sustainable innovation 2016: circular economy innovation & design: towards sustainable product design: 21st international conference
No full textThis is the 21st international conference in this series organised by the Centre for Sustainable Design, at the University for the Creative Arts (UCA). The conference is chaired and the conference proceedings are edited by Professor Martin Charter. The 2016 conference was held at the University for the Creative Arts, Epsom, Surrey, UK, 7-8 November 2016
Free to choose charter schools: how charter and for-profit schools can boost public education
Full text linkExamines the policies and research on charter schools and their equivalents in five countries –USA, Sweden, Chile, England and New Zealand.
Summary
Charter schools and free schools – publicly-funded, privately-managed schools – have been introduced in several countries around the world as a way of extending school choice, particularly for low income families. This report examines the policies and research on charter schools and their equivalents in five countries –USA, Sweden, Chile, England and New Zealand. Research shows that certain types of charter schools have a strong positive impact on the academic achievement of disadvantaged students. For-profit schools have mixed results on average, but some school management companies have been successful. The policy context and governance arrangements are critical. Australian governments should consider introducing charter schools, with careful attention to the policy and regulatory lessons from the experience in other countries
Parental Valuation of Charter Schools and Student Performance
Full text linkThis paper reports evidence that parental value of charter schools is primarily determined by the schools’ academically effectiveness. Data on the New Jersey charter schools indicate that not all charter schools are equally effective, measured by student test scores, or equally valued, measured by the number of students on their waiting list. The charter school value model estimates the effect of tests score, student demographics and school characteristics for both the charter school and the home district traditional public schools. The estimates indicate that the charter school test scores have the largest and most robust effect on the size of the waiting list. Neither the charter school students’ race or income nor traditional public school students’ test scores affect charter school parental value. Thus this research supports a basic tenet for competitive, market based public school improvement--parents choose academically effective schools.Charter Schools, School Choice
Charter School Quality and Parental Decision Making With School Choice
Full text linkCharter schools have become a very popular instrument for reforming public schools, because they expand choices, facilitate local innovation, and provide incentives for the regular public schools while remaining under public control. Despite their conceptual appeal, evaluating their performance has been hindered by the selective nature of their student populations. This paper investigates the quality of charter schools in Texas in terms of mathematics and reading achievement and finds that, after an initial start-up period, average school quality in the charter sector is not significantly different from that in regular public schools. Perhaps most important, the parental decision to exit a charter school is much more sensitive to education quality than the decision to exit a regular public school, consistent with the notion that the introduction of charter schools substantially reduces the transactions costs of switching schools. Low income charter school families are, however, less sensitive to school quality than higher income families.
Impact of Charter School Attendance on Student Achievement in Michigan
Full text linkProponents of school reform have argued that charter schools and vouchers can provide adequate market pressure to improve the performance of traditional public schools. While the number of charter schools and student enrollment have burgeoned, relatively little attention has been paid to their effects on student achievement. Proponents of charter schools suggest a direct effect on student achievement through the restructuring of teaching and learning processes and an indirect effect through peer effects on learning and through the market forces of competition. Of course, competitive pressures may result in higher achievement in traditional public schools as well. This paper focuses on student achievement in charter schools in Michigan. The analyses presented in the paper suggest that students attending charter schools in Michigan are not reaching the same levels of achievement as students in traditional public schools in the same districts. In order to analyze the effectiveness of charter schools relative to their traditional public school counterparts, we examine the difference in student outcomes, as measured by the Michigan Educational Assessment Program (MEAP). The State makes available the MEAP results each year along with limited demographic data that are self-reported by students when they take the tests. We rely mainly on this data set together with additional building- and district- level data that are supplied by local districts and made available on the Michigan Department of Education's (MDE's) website. Five years of MEAP scores from 1996/97 through 200/01 for individual fourth and fifth grade students are analyzed. By pairing charter schools with their "host" (meaning geographically co-located) districts, we attempt to create the local "market" for educational services in which both the charter schools and the public school districts compete. Several models of the difference between test score levels of students attending charter schools versus those from traditional public schools are estimated. In virtually all specifications, each of which controls for student, building, and district characteristics, students attending charter schools have lower test scores than students in traditional public schools. The magnitudes of the results vary by grade, year, and subject matter, but are generally on the order of 3 10 percent. We argue that our estimates of the negative differentials may be biased toward zero because we have not controlled for selection bias.charter, schools, Michigan, achievement, Hollenbeck, Eberts, Upjohn
Paying for school: an overview of charter school finance
Full text linkThis paper examines the current state of the market for charter school finance and will focus specifically on programs and financing structures for school facilities.Education - Economic aspects
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