Publications
Charter Scale with Quality
The National Study of Charter Management Organization (CMO) Effectiveness: Report on Interim Findings
June 2010Charter management organizations (CMOs) are a significant force in today’s public K–12 charter school landscape. These CMOs are implementing many innovative practices, but they also face significant challenges in extending their reach, according to this report from the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) and Mathematica Policy Research.
Considering School Turnarounds: Market Research and Analysis
March 2007Across the country, an increasing number of states and districts are taking action to turn around their chronically underperforming schools. As a result, a new market is rapidly emerging for school providers willing to help school systems tackle this challenge.
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Human Capital
A Highly Effective Teacher in Every Classroom: Creating Talent Development Systems That Drive Instructional Excellence
April 2010Excellent teachers are in scarce supply, particularly for low-income and minority students who so desperately need them. The reasons for this have been hotly debated for decades, but there is nearly universal agreement on one thing: our current education system does not set teachers up for success.
Letter to the Next President
June 2009By Julie Mikuta and Julia Freeland (NewSchools Venture Fund) and Andrew Rotherham (Education Sector) Dear 44th President of the United States,
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Performance-Driven School Systems
Acting on Data: How Urban High Schools Use Data to Improve Instruction
January 2009Data is a powerful tool to support the goal of maximizing the academic potential of each child. When data serves as the foundation and culture of school systems, curriculum and instruction can be more closely tailored to each students’ particular academic needs. NewSchools Venture Fund is pleased to publish the findings from the final study of a three-part research project exploring the use of data in schools.
Conditions for Student Success: The Cycle of Continuous Instructional Improvement
March 2007How can school finance better support student performance? This is the question in front of the National Working Group on Funding Student Success, a group convened by the School Finance Redesign Project at the University of Washington's Center on Reinventing Public Education. The group's purpose is to craft a vision of performance-oriented school finance and what it takes to get there.
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Education Entrepreneurs and Systems Change
Paving the Way for College Success: Strategies for Increasing College Persistence and Graduation Rates
May 2010Today, a college degree matters more than ever. In an increasingly knowledge-based economy, the number of jobs available to adults without at least some post-secondary education is declining rapidly, and the earnings gap between jobs requiring a degree and those that do not is widening. Increasing the number of college graduates not only has a positive impact on the lives of youth today, it can also help break the cycle of poverty for generations to come.
Creating Responsive Supply in Public Education
December 2009The first step toward improving public education is to strengthen and deepen our understanding of the diverse needs and preferences of its most important stakeholders: the parents and students it is intended to serve, as well as the educators at the heart of the institution.
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