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Student Enrollment Patterns and Achievement in Ohio’s Online Charter Schools Open
We utilize state data of nearly 1.7 million students in Ohio to study a specific sector of online education: K–12 schools that deliver most, if not all, education online, lack a brick-and-mortar presence, and enroll students full-time. Fir…
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Market Signals: Evidence on the Determinants and Consequences of School Choice From a Citywide Lottery Open
We estimate school-choice preferences revealed by the rank-ordered lists submitted by more than 22,000 applicants to a citywide lottery for more than 200 traditional and charter public schools in Washington, D.C. The results confirm previo…
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School Choice Decision Making Among Suburban, High-Income Parents Open
Parents’ decision making about whether to send their children to a traditional public or charter schools has been studied mostly in urban, low-income areas. Few studies have focused on the decisions of high-income, suburban families. In a …
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The Growing Segmentation of the Charter School Sector in North Carolina Open
A defining characteristic of charter schools is that they introduce a strong market element into public education. In this paper, we examine through the lens of a market model the evolution of the charter school sector in North Carolina be…
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Closed Schools, Open Markets: A Hot Spot Spatial Analysis of School Closures and Charter Openings in Detroit Open
The purpose of this study is to use geographic information systems to map the spatial distribution of traditional public school closures and the opening of charter schools in Detroit. To achieve this purpose, we examine the following resea…
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Segregated Neighborhoods, Segregated Schools: Do Charters Break a Stubborn Link? Open
Residential and school segregation have historically mirrored each other, with school segregation seen as simply reflecting residential patterns given neighborhood-based school assignment policy. We argue that the relationship is circular,…
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Money and influence: philanthropies, intermediary organisations, and Atlanta’s 2017 school board election Open
National philanthropies have recently played a prominent role in spending on U.S. urban school board elections, largely seeking to promote candidates who support charter schools. In Atlanta in 2017, 30 candidates competed for nine open sch…
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Charter Schools, Civil Rights and School Discipline: A Comprehensive Review. Open
This report, along with the companion spreadsheet, provides the first comprehensive description ever compiled of charter school discipline. In 2011-12, every one of the nationâs 95,000 public schools was required to report its school dis…
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Exploring quality programs for English language learners in charter schools: A framework to guide future research Open
Although there has been a great deal of debate about the effectiveness of charter schools in the research literature, there has been surprisingly little attention paid to English language learners (ELLs) in charter schools. Moreover, the c…
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Exploring school choice and the consequences for student racial segregation within Pennsylvania’s charter school transfers Open
Using individual-level student data from Pennsylvania, this study explores the extent to which charter school racial composition may be an important factor in students’ self-segregative school choices. Findings indicate that, holding dista…
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Teach For America, Relay Graduate School, and charter school networks: The making of a parallel education structure Open
In New York City, a partnership between Teach For America (TFA), the New York City Department of Education (NYCDOE), the Relay Graduate School of Education (Relay), and three charter school networks produced a parallel education structure …
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Educator Turnover Has Markedly Increased, but Districts Have Taken Actions to Boost Teacher Ranks: Selected Findings from the Sixth American School District Panel Survey Open
To obtain a national picture of teacher and principal turnover at the end of the 2021–2022 school year and districts' staffing shortages at the beginning of the 2022–2023 school year, researchers surveyed 300 district and charter network l…
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Recruiting “Talent”: School Choice and Teacher Hiring in New Orleans Open
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine school leaders’ preferences and practices in an environment of widespread decentralization, privatization, and school choice. In New Orleans, such reforms have been enacted citywide since Hu…
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Locating Chicago’s charter schools: A socio-spatial analysis Open
This project contributes to the body of research examining the implications of the geographic location of charter schools for student access, especially in high-poverty communities. Using geographic information systems (GIS) software, this…
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School Choice, Neighborhood Change, and Racial Imbalance Between Public Elementary Schools and Surrounding Neighborhoods Open
The expansion of school choice in recent years has potentially generated demographic imbalances between traditional public schools and their residential attendance zones. Demographic imbalances emerge from selective opting out, when famili…
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Common enrollment in school choice Open
Increasingly, more school districts across the United States are using centralized admissions for charter, magnet, and neighborhood schools in a common enrollment system. We first show that across all school‐participation patterns, full pa…
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Teachers of Color and Urban Charter Schools: Race, School Culture, and Teacher Turnover in the Charter Sector Open
This article explores working conditions in charter schools with varying rates of teacher turnover. Ethnographic data with 28 racially diverse teachers explores teachers’ experiences, their explanations for moving charter schools, and patt…
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Fiscal and Education Spillovers from Charter School Expansion Open
The fiscal and educational consequences of charter expansion for non-charter students are central issues in the debate over charter schools.Do charter schools drain resources and high-achieving peers from non-charter schools?This paper ans…
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Socioeconomic Status and its Impact on Language and Content Attainment in CLIL Contexts Open
This article deals with a crucial variable in CLIL settings: socioeconomic \nstatus, which was measured via parents’ educational level (high, medium or low). It sheds \nlight on the FL, L1 and subject content attainment of 129 bilingual le…
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Incentives and the Supply of Effective Charter Schools Open
Charter school funding is typically set by formulas that provide the same amount for students regardless of advantage or need. I present evidence that this policy skews the distribution of students served by charters toward low-cost popula…
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Equity and access in charter schools: Identifying issues and solutions Open
School choice exists in American public schooling, even where official school choice policy is absent. Parents with means can elect to live in neighborhoods zoned for desirable schools, whereas parents without means are locked out of that …
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Choice, Cyber Charter Schools, and the Educational Marketplace for Rural School Districts Open
Pennsylvania is a state with significant proportions of students who attend rural schools, as well as students who attend charter schools. This study examines enrollment patterns of students in brick and mortar and cyber charter schools in…
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What’s Lost, What’s Left, What’s Next: Lessons Learned From the Lived Experiences of Teachers During the Pandemic Open
To understand the experiences of educators during the 2020 extended school closures, we interviewed 40 teachers from across the country in public, charter, and private schools, at different grade levels, and in different subject areas. Tea…
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Charter Schools: An Alternative Option in American Schooling Open
Charter schools are educational institutions in the United States funded through taxation but operated privately under a charter or contract with a public entity, providing alternative public education options to families. Charter schools …
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A Census of All Specialized Charter School Foci and Models Open
We seek to build a framework with which researchers can track the trends in charter school specialization and parents can better understand their options. This report examines the entire charter school population operating in the 2018–19 s…
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Math Circles: A Tool for Promoting Engagement Among Middle School Minority Males Open
This article presents results of a case study of a math circle designed for low income, minority students from an inner city middle school. The students were 6th, 7th and 8th grade African American and Hispanic males enrolled in a science,…
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Does Rural Differ? Comparing Parent and Student Reasons for Choosing Cyber Schooling Open
Cyber-schooling offers potentially greater benefits for rural than urban students, by providing a broader range of courses, ending long commutes, and offering more developed special education services than typically found in rural public s…
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Whiteness and economic advantage in digital schooling: Diversity patterns and equity considerations for K-12 online charter schools Open
Scholars and policymakers have yet to hold a robust conversation about diversity in K-12 online schools. This study builds on research that suggests online charter schools enroll higher percentages of White and economically advantaged stud…
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Factors Affecting High School Students’ Stem Career Interest: Findings from A 4-Year Study Open
The present study focuses on the results of a four-year study that examined all four-year common participants' STEM major selection patterns. At the end of the fourth year, 626 open-enrollment charter school students were common participan…
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What Can We Learn from Charter School Lotteries? Open
We take a closer look at what we can learn about charter schools by pooling data from lotterybased impact estimates of the effect of charter school attendance at 113 schools.On average, each year enrolled at one of these schools increases …