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October 15, 2012
An essential guide to charter school lawmaking grounded on experience and practice. Press Release Download or print your PDF copy of The Essential Guide to Charter School Lawmaking: Model Legislation for States Grounded in Experience and Practice Read more »
October 15, 2012
by Barbara Jones Los Angeles Daily News October 10, 2012 Her empire stretches from the aging Vaughn Elementary School at one end to the state-of-the-art Global and Green Generation campus at the other. In between lies a primary center, a middle school, a campus for senior high students and a half-dozen lots where Yvonne Chan [...] Read more »
October 15, 2012
Throughout the media, a statistic is often repeated that suggests charter school achievement is “mixed” and that only 1 in 5 charter schools actually perform well. This started in June 2009, when The New York Times published a report on a study by a small research center out at Stanford University, whose press releases for [...] Read more »
September 24, 2012
Cincinnati’s public school system is featured as an Education Nation case study because of its holistic approach to education, beginning with wraparound services before children have even entered kindergarten. But while the achievement claims made by the superintendent sound promising, there is still a lot of work to be done to ensure that all of Cincinnati’s students are achieving at grade level. Read more »
September 24, 2012
A Stanford University report from the Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) gained major attention in June 2009 when the New York Times ran its findings that public charter schools do no better or worse than traditional public schools. Unfortunately, these findings continue to be taken as fact today despite the study’s shortcomings. Below [...] Read more »
September 10, 2012
After 5 years of planning, Avenues: The World School is open for business. It is the largest independent school opening in the history of New York City. CER President Jeanne Allen got a sneak peak of Avenues before it opened. The New York City school is the flagship in a planned global network of schools [...] Read more »
August 30, 2012
A new study from The Brown Center on Education Policy at Brookings Institution reveals the positive impact that school vouchers may have on college enrollment. In 1997, a privately funded scholarship program in New York City was created for low-income families. As is typical today, demand far outweighed supply and there were 20,000 applicants for [...] Read more »
August 6, 2012
CER President Jeanne Allen recently visited Avenues: The World School, which is an innovative new school opening its doors this fall in New York City. The New York campus is the flagship in a planned global network of schools with a unique mission to promote and nurture global preparedness. Pledging to “set an example as [...] Read more »
June 21, 2012
Charters 101: A quick guide from CER on understanding charter schools. Download or print your PDF copy of Charter School Primer Read more »
May 24, 2012
Success stories from schools that have high standards. Read more »
