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May 3, 2012 Charter Schools: Successful Academic Outcomes Difficult to Link to Spending New Report Analyzes Charter School Finances in New York, Ohio and Texas to Determine How Much Is Spent By Prominent Charter School Operators
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April 19, 2012

Nation's largest urban school voucher program doesn't produce better results than public schools, reviews find

Student graduation rates, test scores analyzed

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School Choice Demonstration Project Reports

April 3, 2012

Latest Review of Online Learning Reports Lacks Evidence of Rigor

Policymakers should seek more balanced and empirically robust assessments

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Teachers in the Age of Digital Instruction

March 29, 2012

Review Debunks Desegregation Claims

Center for the American Experiment report ignores contradictory research

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Our Immense Achievement Gap: Embracing Proven Remedies While Avoiding a Race-Based Recipe for Disaster

March 22, 2012

Review finds Fordham's latest digital learning report makes unproven claims

No evidence exists to support proposed steps to lessen restrictions at the state level for a free market for K-12 online learning.

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Overcoming the Governance Challenge in K-12 Online Learning

March 20, 2012

Review: Recovery district model doesn't produce the student turnaround promised

Fordham Institute report ignores the facts on charter school experience

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The Louisiana Recovery School District: Lessons for the Buckeye State

March 13, 2012

Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) Project Makes Important Contribution to Research Base

Highlights the Variability in Teacher Performance Measures Based on Classroom Observation Instruments, Raises Important Questions

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Gathering Feedback for Teaching: Combining High-Quality Observation with Student Surveys and Achievement Gains

March 6, 2012

Review: Report lacks evidence to claim virtual schools cheaper than brick-and-mortar schools

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The Costs of Online Learning

February 28, 2012

Review: Education Sector report promoting U.K. school inspections not useful for crafting policy in the United States

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On Her Majesty's School Inspection Service

February 21, 2012 New report provides solutions to reverse disturbing trend of segregation in charter schools Expansion of charter schools has led to schools being more segregated today than 30 years ago
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February 16, 2012

Review: Highly-publicized study on long-term teacher effects omitted important tests for bias

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The Long-Term Impacts of Teachers: Teacher Value-Added and Student Outcomes in Adulthood

February 7, 2012

Giving Parents the Runaround on School Turnarounds

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What's Trust Got to Do With It? A Communications and Engagement Guide for School Leaders Tackling the Problem of Persistently Failing Schools

January 31, 2012

Overpaid Teachers Report from Heritage/AEI is Based on Bad Stats and Groundless Assumptions

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Assessing the Compensation of Public School Teachers

January 19, 2012

Mathematica Report on Charter School Managers Offers Insights on What Works -- but Downplays Disappointing Results

Study's findings cannot be applied to charter schools overall, according to independent review

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Charter-School Management Organizations: Diverse Strategies and Diverse Student Impacts

January 12, 2012 Tapping Into What Makes Teachers Tick Policymakers should focus on creating collaboration, not competition, among teachers, new report says
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January 10, 2012

Center for American Progress Report on School Leadership is Poorly Researched and Misleading, says New Review

Report on improving school principals' preparation ignores data, common practices, and common policies

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Gateways to the Principalship: State Power to Improve the Quality of School Leaders

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