School-choice policies are expected to generate healthy competition between schools,
leading to improvements in school quality and better outcomes for students. However, the …

This paper reviews the research on the impacts of charter school attendance on students'
academic and other outcomes, the mechanisms behind those effects, and the influence of …

One of the primary aims of choice policies is to introduce competition between schools.
When parents can choose where to send their children, there is pressure on schools to …

Nearly the whole of America's partisan politics centers on a single question: Can markets
solve our social problems? And for years this question has played out ferociously in the …

Systemic inequities in educational opportunities contribute to reduced economic mobility.
Extensive research has documented disproportionality in gifted education at national and …

On average, charter schools perform at about the same level as traditional public schools.
But an overall estimate disguises considerable variation in charter school impacts. Urban …

This brief argues that charter school programs can have direct fiscal impacts on school
districts for two reasons. First, operating two systems of public schools under separate …

With the intent of improving understanding of cuts to elementary arts programs, the purpose
of this research was to investigate how one urban school district (Lansing School District in …

Education is critical to poverty reduction and upward mobility, and rising education
inequality has drawn broad concern in the United States. However, the role of neighborhood …

Can schools that boost student outcomes reproduce their success at new campuses? We
study a policy reform that allowed effective charter schools in Boston, Massachusetts to …