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Direct linkPaul E. Peterson; M. Danish Shakeel – Education Next, 2024
As states have passed laws establishing charter schools, advocates have carefully tracked and analyzed state policies and enrollments to compare charter school growth, demand, and access across the United States. But to date, there have been no comparisons of charter school performance across states based on student achievement adjusting for…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Educational Assessment, National Competency Tests, Standardized Tests
McShane, Michael Q. – Education Next, 2021
The 2020 Democratic Party platform promises a ban on all federal funding for for-profit charter schools, explaining that "education is a public good and should not be saddled with a private profit motive." A look at Academica, a large U.S.-based education service, and their response to the COVID-19 crisis might temper some of that…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Proprietary Schools, Political Attitudes, Federal Aid
Marcus, Jon – Education Next, 2019
This century has been a dramatic era for the for-profit higher-education industry. Enrollment at for-profit schools more than quadrupled between 2000 and 2010, but the sector was bruised and battered during years of clashes with the Obama administration, which sought to rein in abuses such as inflating job-placement rates and using high-pressure…
Descriptors: Proprietary Schools, Colleges, Educational Innovation, Federal Regulation
Jacob, Brian A.; Stange, Kevin; De Vlieger, Pieter – Education Next, 2017
There is a substantial body of research showing that teacher quality is an important determinant of student achievement in elementary and secondary schools, inspiring some states and districts to enact policies aimed at identifying and rewarding high-quality teachers. Yet relatively little is known about the impact of instructor effectiveness on…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Higher Education, Scores, Teacher Effectiveness
Petersen, Julie Landry – Education Next, 2014
Education entrepreneurs create either a for-profit or nonprofit enterprise, based on their fundraising needs, the revenue model that will suit their product or service, and the employees they hope to entice. Those who take the for-profit route face mistrust on the part of policymakers and many parents, and for-profit ventures have consequently…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Commercialization, Best Practices
Peterson, Paul E.; Chingos, Matthew M. – Education Next, 2009
The federal law No Child Left Behind (NCLB) requires states to "restructure" any school that fails for six years running to make Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) toward full proficiency on the part of all students by the year 2014. The law provides a number of restructuring options, including turning over the school's management to a…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, School Restructuring, School Administration, Educational Improvement
