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Download full textBetts, Julian R.; Tang, Y. Emily – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2016
Charter schools represent an increasingly important form of school choice in the United States. Charter schools are public schools, with a difference. Compared to traditional public schools, they are exempted from some of the state laws and regulations that govern traditional public schools. In this way, parents come to have a greater number of…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Educational Methods, Meta Analysis, Value Added Models
Kitmitto, Sami; Levin, Jesse; Betts, Julian; Bos, Johannes; Eaton, Marian – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2016
In recent decades, magnet schools have become a way for districts to provide school choice. Magnet schools are one of the many options provided to parents so that they can select a school to meet their children's educational needs and interests. After a short gap in federal grants for magnet school implementation, Congress established the current…
Descriptors: Magnet Schools, Academic Achievement, Elementary Schools, Educational Change
Preston, Courtney; Goldring, Ellen; Berends, Mark; Cannata, Marisa – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2011
The purpose of this paper is to develop a framework for measuring innovation in charter schools. The authors ask two questions: (1) What practices constitute innovation in various local and state contexts?; and (2) Do levels and types of innovation differ between charter schools and traditional public schools? The authors' sample frame includes…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Educational Innovation, Public Schools, Traditional Schools
Cannata, Marisa; Engel, Mimi – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2011
This paper provides the first comparison of principals' preferences for teacher characteristics across traditional public and charter schools. Understanding how charter principals' preferences differ from those of public school principals contributes to scholarship on both teacher labor markets and charter schools. One of the first studies of…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Teacher Characteristics, Personnel Selection, Principals
Berends, Mark; Donaldson, Kristi – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2011
In this paper, the authors examine differences between school types in the uses of ability grouping, instructional differences, and relationship of ability grouping to student mathematics achievement. Specifically, they address the following questions with teacher reports of students' mathematics placement in middle school: (1) Does the use of…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Achievement Gains, Mathematics Achievement, Ability Grouping
Stein, Marc L.; Rose, Bess A. – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2011
This study looks at the question of whether charter schools are more innovative in their provision of extended time policies than a matched set of traditional public schools. Data for this study was collected from a sample of traditional public and charter schools that partner with the Northwest Evaluation Association (NWEA) for interim…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Comparative Analysis, Educational Policy, Public Schools
