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Ferrare, Joseph J.; Waddington, R. Joseph; Fitzpatrick, Brian R.; Berends, Mark – American Educational Research Journal, 2023
We estimate the longitudinal effects of charter schools authorized by different authorizing bodies on student achievement by using student-level data from Indiana. The results of our analysis point to substantial variation, especially between the state's two largest authorizers: Ball State University and the Indianapolis Mayor's Office. Some of…
Descriptors: Accountability, Charter Schools, Academic Achievement, School Administration
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Winters, Scarlett; Farnsworth, Kimberly; Berry, Douglas; Ellard, Susan; Glazewski, Krista; Brush, Thomas – Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
This study used an explanatory mixed methods research design to examine the scaffolding strategies of middle school teachers during a design problem-based learning (PBL) unit. Both quantitative and qualitative techniques were used in data collection and analysis, and the findings were integrated for interpretation. Our analysis of classroom…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Problem Based Learning, Classroom Observation Techniques, Cognitive Structures
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Kingsbury, Ian; Greene, Jay; DeAngelis, Corey – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2023
Charter schools were originally intended to improve the American public education system by introducing innovative practices that could be replicated elsewhere. Charter critics and proponents alike, however, question the degree to which charter schools are truly innovative. While alarm has been raised about apparent conformity among charter…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Educational Innovation, State Legislation, State Policy
Nyia Kim Kelly – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This convergent parallel mixed method study was designed to identify obstacles that prevent historically underrepresented racial and ethnic student groups from taking online classes at Phi Beta County Community College and to determine what aid students perceive as necessary to remove these obstacles. This study included three Calloway Charter…
Descriptors: Barriers, Dual Enrollment, Disproportionate Representation, Minority Group Students
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Smith, Spencer J. – Studies in Philosophy and Education, 2022
Most studies of No-Excuses charter schools are distributive in nature. They answer a question of distributive justice: do these schools adequately close the academic achievement gap that exists in America between white and Black or Hispanic students? When discussion of No-Excuses schools is limited to their distributive worth, critics of…
Descriptors: Zero Tolerance Policy, Charter Schools, Justice, Achievement Gap
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Giersch, Jason – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2022
The tendency of charter schools to increase school segregation has been well established, but less is known about what school administrators perceive as the mechanisms causing segregation among charters and traditional public schools. Using the results of exploratory surveys of North Carolina charter school directors and district superintendents,…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, School Segregation, Principals, Superintendents
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Allen, Andrew; Gann, Nigel – Management in Education, 2022
Successive governments, in embracing a neoliberalist ideology of decentralization and privatization, have radically reformed the nature of community-based, comprehensive state education. The transition from 'government to governance' (Rhodes, 1997) combined with the ideology of academization (DfE, 2010a) has created a democratic deficit1 (Corbett,…
Descriptors: Governance, School Administration, Charter Schools, Democracy
Katie Marie Helen Stennes – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Beginning in the fall of 2017, forty-one districts and charter schools entered into three-year legal agreements with the Minnesota Department of Human Rights to reduce the racial disproportionality in their district or school's exclusionary discipline practices, specifically the overrepresentation of students of color in suspensions and…
Descriptors: Discipline, School Districts, Charter Schools, Racism
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Jennifer Ervin – Critical Questions in Education, 2024
In this critical autoethnography, I reflect on my experience teaching in a KIPP charter school in an urban, racially diverse city in the southwestern U.S. Over the past few decades KIPP has gained both prestige and resentment as a major character in the charter school movement. Their focus on supporting students from underrepresented racial…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Ethnography, Educational Policy, Educational Practices
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Katrina H. Brown-Aliffi – Arts Education Policy Review, 2024
The purpose of this exploratory multiple-case study was (1) to develop an understanding of how charter management organizations (CMOs) operating schools in New York City (NYC) during the 2021-2022 academic year developed, promoted, and sustained arts programming, and (2) to explore the role of the network-level arts director. Given the desire to…
Descriptors: Art Education, Charter Schools, Administrators, Administrator Attitudes
Lei Ping – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Student-centered teaching (SCT) has been the dominant education philosophy in the U.S. K-12 education. However, the definition and practice of SCT have been rooted in western education contexts. Since students in U.S. schools become more and more diverse, it remains unclear how SCT works for diverse learners. This research delved into the…
Descriptors: Student Centered Learning, Elementary School Teachers, Charter Schools, Teacher Attitudes
Saya Alice Wai – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This phenomenological study examined the lived experiences of high school alumni to understand how and when high school students perceive educator care. A growing body of research points to the importance of the perception of care for optimal student achievement to be attained in a high school setting. Participants of this study were surveyed,…
Descriptors: Alumni, Teacher Student Relationship, Caring, Student Experience
Sarah Cohodes; Astrid Pineda – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2024
The charter school movement encompasses many school models. In Massachusetts in the 2010's, the site of our study, urban charter schools primarily used "No Excuses" practices, whereas nonurban charters had greater model variety. Using randomized admissions lotteries, we estimate the impact of charter schools by locality on college…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Urban Schools, Educational Practices, School Effectiveness
David N. Figlio; Cassandra Hart; Krzysztof Karbownik – Cato Institute, 2024
Charter schools have been growing in the United States and worldwide over the past two decades, and there is considerable interest in how they affect students remaining in traditional public schools (TPSs). Charter schools present important policy questions, as they often compete for the same students, educators, and resources as TPSs. This brief…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Competition, Public Schools, Traditional Schools
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Sohyun An Kim; Rebecca Gotlieb; Laura V. Rhinehart; Veronica Pedroza; Maryanne Wolf – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2024
Rapid automatized naming (RAN) is a powerful predictor of reading fluency, and many digitized dyslexia screeners include RAN as an essential component. However, the validity of digitized RAN has not been established. Using a sample of 174 second-graders, this study tested (1) the comparability between paper and digitized versions of RAN and (2)…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Charter Schools, Private Schools, Elementary School Students
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