This In Focus brief provides a snapshot of the study and findings.

A key aim of the federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) is to provide new educational options to parents whose children attend Title I schools identified for improvement, corrective action, or restructuring because of a lack of yearly progress. The first option allows children to transfer to...

This paper looks at findings from the first national randomized study of the impacts of charter schools on student achievement.

In the past two decades, the number of states offering alternative certification routes for teachers increased from a handful to 45. Some estimates suggest that a third of any given year's newly hired teachers come through these routes. However, teacher training programs vary widely in their...

To determine how the strategy of replacing principals affected student achievement in D.C. Public Schools, the Walton Family Foundation contracted with Mathematica Policy Research. The resulting study is the first to examine the impact of such a strategy on student achievement.

To determine how the strategy of replacing principals affected student achievement in D.C. Public Schools, the Walton Family Foundation contracted with Mathematica Policy Research. The resulting study is the first to examine the impact of such a strategy on student achievement.

This report presents our examination of impacts of principals trained by New Leaders on student achievement in Oakland Unified School District (OUSD). For the last 10 years, New Leaders has partnered with OUSD in efforts to improve the recruitment and training of effective principals and school...

Provides comprehensive evidence on the effects of KIPP middle schools across the country.

This article measures the achievement impacts of 41 Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP) charter middle schools nationwide and found consistently positive and statistically significant test-score effects in reading, math, science, and social studies.

This working paper discusses a new analysis, using data from Florida and Chicago, suggesting that charter high schools are not only increasing postsecondary educational attainment but may also boost students' long-run earnings.