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Candice Love; Amy Parks; Brittany Caldwell – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2023
This paper examines two activities in a weeklong Professional Development (PD) focused on implementing mathematical play in kindergarten classrooms. Though the weekly activities all had different goals, the two focal activities (Pattern Blocks and Create-a-Monster) were designed specifically to be both playful and mathematically engaging for the…
Descriptors: Play, Elementary School Mathematics, Kindergarten, Learning Activities
Lueken, Martin F. – EdChoice, 2023
As current trends across the country indicate widespread declining student enrollment and attendance, EdChoice is interested in conducting an evaluation of state-level school funding and enrollment policies that protect public schools against reduced funding due to declining enrollment. To support this effort, EdChoice enlisted Hanover to conduct…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, State Policy, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
Alison H. Johnson; Josh B. McGee; Patrick J. Wolf; Jay F. May; Larry D. Maloney – School Choice Demonstration Project, 2023
Charter schools are public schools that operate free from some government regulations in return for a commitment to achieve a set of student outcomes specified in their charter. Nearly 8,000 public charter schools enrolled 3.7 million students in the U.S. in 2020-21. In major cities, charter schools receive less funding per pupil compared to…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Productivity, Educational Finance, Reading Achievement
Alison H. Johnson; Josh B. McGee; Patrick J. Wolf; Jay F. May – School Choice Demonstration Project, 2023
In early 2020, the global COVID-19 pandemic closed schools for the rest of the 2019-20 school year (fiscal year 2020 or FY20). The United States Congress deployed funds to help K-12 schools adjust and plan for reopening via the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, including the initial $13.2 billion installment through the…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Educational Finance, Equal Education, Educational Equity (Finance)
Feng Chen; Douglas N. Harris – Grantee Submission, 2023
We study the total, market-level effects of charter schools, and their mechanisms, on a national level and across multiple outcomes. Using a generalized difference-in-differences method, we find that increasing the charter market share by 10 percentage points increases math and ELA elementary/middle test scores of the entire geographic district in…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Outcomes of Education, School Districts, Competition
Chew, Adrian W. – Educational Policy, 2019
This article problematizes the lottery as a taken-for-granted concept, which is normatively understood as a neutral process rewarding its participant based on luck. The article adopts a policy problematization frame that interrogates the limits of normative concepts. To problematize the lottery system, this article engages with the two movies on…
Descriptors: School Choice, Competition, Charter Schools, Educational Policy
Katrina Bulkley; Amanda Lu; Kate Meza Fernandez; Alica Gerry – Educational Policy, 2024
Charter school authorizers shape which charter schools open, where they open, and who they serve. We draw on principal agent theory to investigate how the priorities and practices of nine authorizers intersected with charter school applications' attention to the needs of historically marginalized students. Using data from interviews and…
Descriptors: Disproportionate Representation, Disadvantaged Youth, Minority Groups, Charter Schools
Madhu Narayanan; A. L. Shields; T. J. Delhagen – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2024
The work of teachers has historically been highly controlled, but one area teachers have been granted considerable autonomy is in instruction and planning. Teacher autonomy is a complex concept with important implications for both the quality of instruction and teacher persistence in the field. The rise of charter management organizations (CMOs)…
Descriptors: Professional Autonomy, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Charter Schools
Carol Burris; Johann Neem – History of Education Quarterly, 2024
Public education, at least as it has been known for the past several generations in the US, is under threat. Conservative state legislatures from Arizona to Florida have enacted sweeping voucher legislation, channeling taxpayer dollars to private schools. At the same time, a vicious culture war has engulfed the public education system in…
Descriptors: Public Education, Charter Schools, School Choice, Educational Vouchers
Nina Buchanan; Paul E. Peterson – Education Next, 2024
Many public charter schools in the state of Hawaii are explicitly religious. For more than two decades, students at Hawaiian-focused schools have offered chants and prayers to the pantheon of gods who rule over skies, seas, and earth, including to the volcanic god, Pelehonuamea ("she who shapes the sacred land"), popularly known as Madam…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Religious Factors, State Church Separation, Political Influences
Anne West; David Wolfe; Basma B. Yaghi – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2024
School-based education in England has undergone significant changes since 2010, with a huge expansion of academies, schools outside local authority control, funded directly by central government. Academies and local authority (LA) maintained schools are subject to different legislative and regulatory frameworks. This paper focuses on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Governance, Secondary Schools, School District Autonomy
Julie A. Marsh; James C. Bridgeforth; Laura Steen Mulfinger; Desiree O'Neal; Tong Tong – Grantee Submission, 2024
Although the COVID pandemic dramatically expanded K-12 remote learning in its first years, little is known about the lasting effects on virtual schooling policies and practices. Drawing on evolutionary theories of change and qualitative data from 2019 to 2022, we explore this topic in Oregon, a state with a long history of virtual schools. We find…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Virtual Schools, Distance Education
Krystle Merry – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation research is an exploratory multiple-case study of special education transition program structures in three virtual public charter schools in a southern state in the United States. Virtual public charter schools are extensions of public school systems or districts that are required to comply with state and federal-mandated special…
Descriptors: Special Education, Transitional Programs, Virtual Schools, Public Schools
Sarah J. Reber; Dennis Rünger; Mitchell D. Wong – Education Finance and Policy, 2024
This paper estimates the causal effects of enrollment in one of five oversubscribed high-quality Los Angeles charter schools using a lottery design. Enrolling in a charter school increased eleventh-grade standardized test scores and enrollment and persistence in four-year colleges substantially, but had no effect on high school GPA. Charter…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, High School Students, Academic Achievement, College Enrollment
Rashad Issa – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this study is to examine the effectiveness of a one-to-one intensive tutoring program in English and Mathematics on improving English learners' test scores on standardized assessments like the Pre-Scholastic Aptitude Test (PSAT). The program of interest in this study is called The Rising Stars Program and is designed based on…
Descriptors: Intervention, English Language Learners, English, Mathematics Instruction