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Podcast
1.17.2023
Charter Schools

Education Gadfly Show #853: The Supreme Court and religious charters schools, with Nicole Garnett

  On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Mike Petrilli and David Griffith talk with

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Commentary
1.12.2023
Evidence-Based Learning, Charter Schools, Governance, Private School Choice

Rural school choice is more common than you think

Robert Pondiscio

A common observation made by critics of school choice is that it has little to offer families in rural communities where the population isn’t large enough to support multiple schools, and where transportation is already burdensome. I’ve made the point myself, and I’m a school choice proponent.

Commentary
1.12.2023
Evidence-Based Learning, Charter Schools, Governance, Teachers & School Leaders

The impact of regulatory flexibility on the teacher workforce in Massachusetts charter schools

Jeff Murray

One hallmark of charter schools—distinct from their traditional district peers—is flexibility in their HR practices.

Commentary
1.5.2023
Charter Schools, Curriculum & Instruction, Governance, Teachers & School Leaders

Charter school teacher turnover and retention

Daniel Buck

As one article at National Affairs put it, the cries about a nation-wide teacher shortage are “heavy on anecdote and speculation” but rather light on data.

Commentary
12.15.2022
Evidence-Based Learning, Charter Schools, Curriculum & Instruction, Teachers & School Leaders

How to supercharge student learning

Eva Moskowitz

In the wake of pandemic-related learning loss, there’s widespread agreement that we must find more time for learning and a number of schools and districts have added afterschool tutoring and summer school to their calendars. While such additions to schools’ teaching and learning time have benefits, intensifying our focus on how we use the classroom time we already have is even more important.

Commentary
12.8.2022
Evidence-Based Learning, Charter Schools, Curriculum & Instruction, Governance, Teachers & School Leaders

The strongest argument for charter schools is the truth

David Griffith

In a new NEPC policy memo, Duke public policy professor Helen Ladd argues that charter schools “disrupt” what she claims are the four core goals of American education policy: “establishing coherent systems of schools,” “appropriate accountability for the use of public funds,” “limiting racial segregation and isolation,” and “attending to child poverty and disadvantage.” Griffith disputes all four counts.

Commentary
12.1.2022
Evidence-Based Learning, Charter Schools

School choice priorities change at the middle and high school levels

Jeff Murray

Common sense, backed by research, tells us that families weigh a lot of information when making school choice decisions.

Commentary
11.10.2022
Evidence-Based Learning, Charter Schools, Curriculum & Instruction, Teachers & School Leaders

Why homework matters

Eva Moskowitz

Homework is the perennial bogeyman of K–12 education. In any given year, you’ll find people arguing that students, especially in elementary school, should have far less homework—or none at all. Eva Moskowitz, the founder and CEO of Success Academy charter schools, has the opposite opinion. She’s been running schools for sixteen years, and she’s only become more convinced that homework is not only necessary, but also a linchpin to effective K–12 education.

Commentary
11.10.2022
Evidence-Based Learning, Charter Schools, Curriculum & Instruction, Governance, Teachers & School Leaders

School choice and parental compromise

Jeff Murray

What parents are looking for in an ideal school choice scenario is often very different from what they settle for in the real world. Cost, distance, academic quality, safety, extracurricular options, and a host of other factors are all at play, meaning trade-offs are unavoidable. Recently-published research findings try to capture the matrix of compromises being made.

Commentary
11.3.2022
Evidence-Based Learning, Charter Schools, Governance

How federal charter school grants help marginalized students

Tressa Pankovits

It makes good sense for the federal government to provide grants to high-quality public charter schools seeking to open or expand. That’s the gist of a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report released last month.

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Report
11.2.2022
Charter Schools

The Power of Expectations in District and Charter Schools

Seth Gershenson

This study examines the role that high expectations should play in our nation’s academic recovery and how they operate in the traditional public, charter, and private school sectors.

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Commentary
10.27.2022
Accountability & Testing, Evidence-Based Learning, Charter Schools, Curriculum & Instruction, Governance, Teachers & School Leaders

Charter schools complicate the narrative on Covid shutdowns and learning loss

Michael J. Petrilli

This week’s news of sharp declines on the National Assessment of Educational Progress gave partisans yet another chance to relitigate the debate over keeping schools closed for in-person learning for much or all of the 2020–21 school year. We conservatives are eager to identify the teachers unions as the primary culprits, and we’re not wrong. But there is one complication we should acknowledge: the curious case of urban charter schools.

Commentary
10.6.2022
Evidence-Based Learning, Charter Schools, Governance

Why urban charters outperform traditional public schools

Michael J. Petrilli, David Griffith

High-quality studies continue to find that urban charter schools boost achievement and other outcomes by more than their traditional-public-school peers—an advantage that has only grown larger as the charter sector has expanded and matured. Where the research literature is less clear is why urban charter schools consistently, and increasingly, outperform district schools. Still, it does offer some hints and plausible hypotheses.

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Podcast
10.4.2022
Charter Schools

Education Gadfly Show #840: The state of state education reform

  On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Jennifer Alexander, Executive Director of the Policy Innovators in Educatio

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Commentary
9.29.2022
Evidence-Based Learning, School Finance, Charter Schools, Curriculum & Instruction, Governance, Teachers & School Leaders

Judge “for-profit” charter schools on their results, not the tax status of their main vendor

Amber M. Northern, Ph.D., Michael J. Petrilli

After a tumultuous reception, the Biden administration’s regulations for the federal Charter Schools Program (CSP) were finalized in July.

Report
9.28.2022
Charter Schools

For-Profit Charter Schools: An evaluation of their spending and outcomes

Stéphane Lavertu, Long Tran

For-profit charter schools” are non-profit organizations that contract out some services to a for-profit organization—meaning the schools themselves are not for-profit. This study explores whether such contracting affects school quality.

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Podcast
9.28.2022
Charter Schools

Education Gadfly Show #839: Do “for-profit” charter schools deserve their bad reputation?

    On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Mike Petrilli and David

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Commentary
9.22.2022
Accountability & Testing, Evidence-Based Learning, Charter Schools, Curriculum & Instruction, Governance, Teachers & School Leaders

Charter school achievement in D.C. was decimated by the pandemic. Here’s what we can learn from that.

Marc Porter Magee

Nine percent. That’s how many Black boys met expectations in math in D.C.’s traditional public schools in 2022, down from 17 percent before the pandemic. It’s also how many met those expectation in the city’s charter schools, down from 22 percent. The word “disaster” is used a lot lately, but it is absolutely the right fit here. There are, however, lessons we can learn from this catastrophe.

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Podcast
9.21.2022
Charter Schools

Education Gadfly Show #838: Was the charter sector too slow to reopen schools for in-person learning?

    On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Karega Ra

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Commentary
9.15.2022
Charter Schools, Curriculum & Instruction, Governance, Teachers & School Leaders

Supporting student wellness through challenging academic learning

Eva Moskowitz

The pandemic accelerated a mental health crisis for children and teens that was already apparent prior to spring 2020. It is a serious issue, and schools have expanded mental health services to meet the needs of a greater number of struggling students. At the same time, as we commence a school year in which educators must continue the intensive work of repairing the pandemic’s academic damage, focusing on student emotional wellness does not require relinquishing academic learning.

Commentary
9.15.2022
Evidence-Based Learning, Charter Schools, Curriculum & Instruction, Governance, Teachers & School Leaders

A teacher’s-eye view of the culture of a “No Excuses” school

Daniel Buck

Whether or not the bipartisan education consensus is dead, one of its most visible and effective reforms lives on: so-called “No Excuses” model schools, institutions famous for their exacting behavioral and academic standards.

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Podcast
8.30.2022
Charter Schools

Education Gadfly Show #835: The expanding partisan gap on K-12 education

    On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, David Houston, assistant professor at

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Commentary
8.25.2022
Accountability & Testing, Evidence-Based Learning, Career & Technical Education, Charter Schools, Curriculum & Instruction, Governance, Standards, Teachers & School Leaders

The evolving education reform agenda

Michael J. Petrilli

Earlier this month, I argued that “education reform is alive and well, even if the Washington Consensus is dead for now.” What’s more, I wrote that we should stay the course on the current reform strategy:

Commentary
8.25.2022
Evidence-Based Learning, Charter Schools, Curriculum & Instruction, Governance, Teachers & School Leaders

Is school choice good for America?

Robert Pondiscio

Does school choice work? That depends on who you talk to and what you mean by “work.” For education researchers and policy wonks, school choice works if it raises math and reading scores for students who take advantage of choice programs or, more broadly, if market competition improves measurable outcomes for all students.

Commentary
8.19.2022
Evidence-Based Learning, Charter Schools, Curriculum & Instruction, Governance, Teachers & School Leaders

Instructional coherence isn’t a trendy reform. It’s necessary—and it works.

Kunjan Narechania

In a recent piece about the state of standards-based reform, Dale Chu weighs the benefits and challenges of a district “relinquishment” versus “instructional coherence” approach to improving student learning.

Commentary
8.18.2022
Charter Schools, Teachers & School Leaders

Exit interview: “America’s authorizer,” Susie Miller Carello

Robert Pondiscio

Susie Miller Carello may not be a household name in education, but she’s a household name among those who are. For twelve years ending earlier this month, she led the Charter Schools Institute at the State University of New York—the largest university-based charter school authorizer in the nation, and arguably the most successful.

Commentary
8.11.2022
Evidence-Based Learning, Charter Schools, Curriculum & Instruction, Governance, Teachers & School Leaders

Education reform is alive and well, even if the Washington Consensus is dead for now

Michael J. Petrilli

The latest declaration of education reform’s demise comes from two of Mike’s favorite people: Checker Finn and Rick Hess. But what they actually describe is the end of the bipartisan ed reform coalition—what Mike and Rick used to call the “Washington Consensus.” Even with it gone for now, however, education reform continues apace—and continues to rack up victories for kids. And there are ways to rebuild the coalition.

Commentary
8.11.2022
Evidence-Based Learning, Career & Technical Education, Charter Schools, Curriculum & Instruction, Governance, Teachers & School Leaders

The new education consensus is conservative, and that’s a good thing

Daniel Buck

In the latest issue of National Affairs, Chester Finn and Frederick Hess chronicle the splintering of the school reform movement that lasted from roughly 1983 until Trump’s presidency.

Commentary
8.4.2022
Evidence-Based Learning, Charter Schools, Governance, Teachers & School Leaders

Impacts of charter school growth on school and neighborhood diversity

Amber M. Northern, Ph.D.

Student demographics in traditional district schools largely reflect patterns of housing availability and affordability within neighborhoods. Much of that is due to strict attendance zoning.

Podcast
8.2.2022
Charter Schools

The Education Gadfly Show #831 Resurfaced: Research Deep Dive: The impact of urban charter schools

  Our host Mike Petrilli is on vacation this week, so we're republishing our most popular podcast episode for three year

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