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Shakeel, M. Danish; Peterson, Paul E. – Education Next, 2021
The number of charter schools grew rapidly for a quarter-century after the first charter opened its doors in 1992. But since 2016, the rate of increase has slowed. Is the pause related to a decline in charter effectiveness? To find out, the authors tracked changes in student performance at charter and district schools on the National Assessment of…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Student Characteristics, Educational Trends, Trend Analysis
Bacher-Hicks, Andrew; Billings, Stephen B.; Deming, David J. – Education Next, 2021
At issue is the school-to-prison pipeline--a term often used to describe the connection between exclusionary punishments like suspensions and expulsions and involvement in the criminal justice system. Black and Hispanic students are far more likely than white students to be suspended or expelled, and Black and Hispanic Americans are…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Discipline Policy, Correctional Rehabilitation, Suspension
Gill, Brian P.; Tilley, Charles; Whitesell, Emilyn; Finucane, Mariel; Potamites, Liz; Corcoran, Sean P. – Education Next, 2019
Education in the United States has a foundational public purpose: to prepare students for effective citizenship. The idea that an educated and engaged citizenry is essential to the health of a democracy motivated the creation of government-run "common schools" in the early decades of the nation and remains an important value in modern…
Descriptors: Civics, Charter Schools, Democracy, Citizenship Education
Kemple, James J. – Education Next, 2016
Much has been written about the controversy surrounding performance-based school closures, but there has been no rigorous assessment of their impact on student achievement. Does the closure process harm students who are enrolled in a school while it is being phased out? Are future students better-off because a low-performing option has been…
Descriptors: School Closing, High Schools, Academic Achievement, Outcomes of Education
Woessmann, Ludger – Education Next, 2015
When Daniel Patrick Moynihan raised the issue of family structure half a century ago, his concern was the increase in black families headed by women. Since then, the share of children raised in single-parent families in the United States has grown across racial and ethnic groups and with it evidence regarding the impact of family structure on…
Descriptors: One Parent Family, Child Rearing, Achievement Gap, Academic Achievement
Nichols-Barrer, Ira; Gill, Brian P.; Gleason, Philip; Tuttle, Christina Clark – Education Next, 2014
The Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP) is a network of charter schools designed to improve the educational opportunities available to low-income families. KIPP schools seek to boost their students' academic achievement and ultimately prepare them to enroll and succeed in college. To achieve these objectives, KIPP schools leverage strong…
Descriptors: Student Attrition, College Preparation, Charter Schools, Low Income Groups
West, Martin; Schwerdt, Guido – Education Next, 2012
Policymakers nationwide continue to wrestle with a basic question: At what grade level should students move to a new school? In the most common grade configuration in American school districts, public school students make two school transitions, entering a middle school in grade 6 or 7 and a high school in grade 9. This pattern reflects the…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Elementary Secondary Education, Academic Achievement, Grouping (Instructional Purposes)
Deming, David J. – Education Next, 2012
In this study, the author investigates whether the opportunity to attend a school other than a student's assigned neighborhood school reduces criminal activity, especially among disadvantaged youth. Many of the schools chosen by the students were "better" on traditional indicators, such as student test scores and teacher characteristics.…
Descriptors: Neighborhood Schools, School Choice, Disadvantaged Youth, Criminals
Edwards, Finley – Education Next, 2012
School start times vary considerably, both across the nation and within individual communities, with some schools beginning earlier than 7:30 a.m. and others after 9:00 a.m. Proponents of later start times, who have received considerable media attention in recent years, argue that many students who have to wake up early for school do not get…
Descriptors: School Schedules, Standardized Tests, Scores, Well Being
Taylor, Eric S.; Tyler, John H. – Education Next, 2012
The modernization of teacher evaluation systems, an increasingly common component of school reform efforts, promises to reveal new, systematic information about the performance of individual classroom teachers. Yet while states and districts race to design new systems, most discussion of how the information might be used has focused on traditional…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Teacher Effectiveness, Observation, Peer Evaluation
Rockoff, Jonah E.; Lockwood, Benjamin B. – Education Next, 2010
Could middle schools be bad for student learning? Could something as simple as changing the grade configuration of schools improve academic outcomes? That's what some educators have come to believe. States and school districts across the country are reevaluating the practice of educating young adolescents in stand-alone middle schools, which…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, School Restructuring, Middle Schools, Instructional Program Divisions
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