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Building and Using Evidence in Charter Schools: How Charter Schools Could Become Innovation Laboratories for K-12 Education
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Lester, Patrick – Online Submission, 2018
As originally envisioned, charter schools were intended to be laboratories of innovation. Offered broad flexibility in exchange for performance-based accountability, they were well-positioned to test, validate, and adopt new practices in a public school environment. Thus far, however, charter schools have only partly delivered on this mission.…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Evidence Based Practice, Educational Research, Program Effectiveness