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Lauen, Douglas Lee; Fuller, Bruce; Dauter, Luke – American Journal of Education, 2015
The debate over charter school effectiveness relies largely on neoclassical logic: individual parents or students express demand for a widening array of school types and then experience variable levels of organizational quality. We argue that market-like behavior is nested in segments of local organizational fields with different types of charter…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, School Effectiveness, Achievement Gains, Academic Achievement
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Lee, Valerie E.; Burkam, David T.; Ready, Douglas D.; Honigman, Joanne; Meisels, Samuel J. – American Journal of Education, 2006
Do children learn more in full-day kindergartens than half-day programs? If full-day kindergarten increases learning, are kindergartners in some schools particularly advantaged by their full-day experience? We address these questions with a nationally representative sample of over 8,000 kindergartners and 500 U.S. public schools that participated…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Young Children, Early Childhood Education, School Schedules