The charter school movement is nearing its 25th anniversary, making this an opportune time
to take stock of the movement by addressing the following questions: Where do charter …

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

As researchers continue to examine the growing number of charter schools in the United
States, they have focused attention on the significant heterogeneity of charter effects on …

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 …

Charter schools have become the hegemonic “solution” for urban educational reform
initiatives aimed at curtailing longstanding race-based educational inequities. The “common …

The closure of low-performing schools is an essential feature of the charter school model.
Our regression discontinuity analysis uses an exogenous source of variation in school …

Since their inception in 1992, the number of charter schools has grown to more than 6,800
nationally, serving nearly three million students. Various studies have examined charter …

Charter schools because of their entanglements with privatization remain one of the most
publicly contested and controversial educational reform initiatives. Charter schools, in …

In the three decades since their inception, charter schools have become a widespread
phenomenon but also remain controversial. Throughout this time, the debate has often been …

Thanks to extraordinary and exponential improvements in data storage and computing
capacities, it is now possible to collect, manage, and analyze data in magnitudes and in …