Katrina Bulkley and Jennifer Fisler, Consortium for Policy Research in Education
April 2002
This useful ten-page review of charter-school research literature was published by the University of Pennsylvania-based Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE) and written by Katrina Bulkley and Jennifer Fisler of Rutgers University. It's straightforward and fair-minded, useful to anyone seeking a fast overview of what's been learned to date by umpteen studies of charter schools. Be warned, though, that, on just about all the important issues, the evidence they've gathered is ambiguous, inconclusive or simply mixed. You can find it on the web at http://www.cpre.org/Publications/rb35.pdf. A longer version (which I've not had the opportunity to review) will be available next week at http://www.cpre.org.
