Charter schools have been on the educational reform landscape for over twenty years. In the
last ten years, a number of rigorous studies have examined the effects of these schools on …

Many most well-known charter schools in the United States use a “No Excuses” approach.
We conduct the first meta-analysis of the achievement impacts of No Excuses charter …

Abstract Harlem Children's Zone (HCZ), an ambitious social experiment, combines
community programs with charter schools. We provide the first empirical test of the causal …

Lottery estimates suggest Massachusetts' urban charter schools boost achievement well
beyond that of traditional urban public schools students, while nonurban charters reduce …

Adding to the growing debate and evidence base on the effects of charter schools, this
evaluation was conducted in 36 charter middle schools in 15 states. It compares the …

The first US charter school opened in 1992, and the scale of the charter movement has since
grown to 4,000 schools and more than a million students in 40 states plus the District of …

In 2002, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation launched the Early College High School
Initiative (ECHSI) with the primary goal of increasing the opportunity for underserved …

Charter schools--public schools of choice that are operated autonomously, outside the direct
control of local school districts--have become more prevalent over the past two decades …

In recent years, the federal government has invested billions of dollars to reform chronically
low-performing schools. To fulfill their federal Race to the Top grant agreement, Tennessee …

New “autonomy initiatives” aim to increase schools' decision-making authority as a strategy
to leverage school improvement. These policies build on lessons of previous reforms such …