Preparing for the next pandemic: predictors and effects of COVID-19 remote learning by Bodhi A. Brenner, Heather Thompson-Brenner

“…Exploratory analyses comparing charter schools with regional public high schools found that charter schools showed significantly greater loss of educational attainment, contrary to hypotheses.ConclusionAdditional protections for students from larger school districts, lower-income families, and charter schools are needed in case of future population-level disruptions in education.…”
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Stand and Deliver: Effects of Boston’s Charter High Schools on College Preparation, Entry, and Choice by Cohodes, Sarah R., Dynarski, Susan M., Walters, Christopher R., Angrist, Joshua, Pathak, Parag

“…We use admissions lotteries to estimate effects of attendance at Boston’s charter high schools on college preparation and enrollment. Charter schools increase pass rates on Massachusetts’ high-stakes exit exam, with large effects on the likelihood of qualifying for a state-sponsored scholarship. …”
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Charters without Lotteries: Testing Takeovers in New Orleans and Boston by Abdulkadiroğlu, Atila, Angrist, Joshua, Hull, Peter Davenport, Pathak, Parag

“…Charter takeovers are traditional public schools restarted as charter schools. We develop a grandfathering instrument for takeover attendance that compares students at schools designated for takeover with a matched sample of students attending similar schools not yet taken over. …”
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Elucidating Organizational Readiness of K12 Schools in United States for Online Education by Najih Samin Ahmed, Cumhur Aydinli, Tim Saka

“…Of 500 teachers who were sent invitations in charter schools in the USA, 130 sent back their responses. …”
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Be prepared: online school experience and student achievement during the pandemic by Dennis Beck

“…While many traditional public schools struggled to transition to remote teaching, cyber charter schools–which already had experience with full-time online learning–appeared to demonstrate superior academic performance and less learning loss. …”
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Prevalence of undiagnosed dyslexia in African-American primary school children by Laura Cassidy, Kayla Reggio, Bennett A. Shaywitz, Sally E. Shaywitz

“…Here we report our findings from a study using a teacher completed evidence-based dyslexia screener to first screen then test predominantly African-American children in grades kindergarten through second grade in two inner city public charter schools in New Orleans. Almost half (49.2%) of the children screened as at risk for dyslexia and of these the majority were found to be dyslexic on more detailed testing. …”
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Editorial: Prizing Equity in Education and Research in the Field of Open, Flexible and Distance Learning by Niki Davis, Alison Fields, Maggie Hartnett

“…In contrast, the fourth paper identifies the possibilities for increased engagement between administrators and the staff that they lead in virtual charter schools. The editorial also describes the increasing visibility of JOFDL in collections worldwide.   …”
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Editorial: Prizing Equity in Education and Research in the Field of Open, Flexible and Distance Learning by Niki Davis, Alison Fields, Maggie Hartnett

“…In contrast, the fourth paper identifies the possibilities for increased engagement between administrators and the staff that they lead in virtual charter schools. The editorial also describes the increasing visibility of JOFDL in collections worldwide.   …”
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Cognitive Skills, Student Achievement Tests, and Schools by Finn, Amy S., Kraft, Matthew A., West, Martin R., Leonard, Julia Anne, Bish, Crystal E., Martin, Rebecca E., Sheridan, Margaret A., Gabrieli, Christopher F. O., Gabrieli, John D. E.

“…Random offers of enrollment to oversubscribed charter schools resulted in positive impacts of such school attendance on math achievement but had no impact on cognitive skills. …”
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11.126J / 14.48J / 11.249J Economics of Education, Spring 2006 by Levy, Frank, 1941-

“…Topics include discussion of basic human capital theory; the growing impact of education on earnings and earnings inequality; statistical issues in determining the true rate of return to education; the labor market for teachers, implications of the impact of computers on the demand for worker skills; the effectiveness of mid-career training for adult workers; the roles of school choice, charter schools, state standards and educational technology in improving K-12 education, and the issue of college financial aid. …”
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Essays on the Effects of Public Policy by Felix Silva, Mayara Priscila

“…Finally, the third paper evaluates the impact of a school discipline policy in Massachusetts on student suspensions and test scores at charter schools. I find that the policy reduced charter suspensions by roughly 10 percentage points, but had no impact on charter learning.…”
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A (não) implementação de Escolas Charter em Goiás by Henrique Dias Gomes de Nazareth

“…Em suma, o artigo é sobre um programa que não foi efetivamente implementado, mas que, a despeito disso, apresenta consequências e desdobramentos para o avanço de políticas privatizantes identificadas com as charter schools no contexto brasileiro. …”
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Who Benefits from KIPP? by Angrist, Joshua, Pathak, Parag, Walters, Christopher Ross, Dynarski, Susan M., Kane, Thomas J.

“…KIPP schools are emblematic of the No Excuses approach to public education, a highly standardized and widely replicated charter model that features a long school day, an extended school year, selective teacher hiring, strict behavior norms, and emphasizes traditional reading and math skills. No Excuses charter schools are sometimes said to target relatively motivated high achievers at the expense of students who are more difficult to teach, including limited English proficiency (LEP) and special education (SPED) students, as well as students with low baseline achievement levels. …”
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Organizational behavior in education : leadership and school reform / by 349845 Owens, Robert G., Valesky, Thomas C.

“…"This thoroughly revised edition updates the research and theory behind organizational effectiveness in schools as it pertains to change, leadership, and new issues in school reform including comprehensive school reform models, charter schools, and school vouchers. This new material contains current emerging developments in the fast-paced world of contemporary school reform and keeps students abreast of emerging trends." …”

Supportive Relationships Mitigate the Effect of Cumulative Exposure to Adverse Childhood Experiences on Depression, Anxiety, Stress, and Suicide Considerations—The Arizona Youth Ri... by Bin C. Suh, M. Shayne Gallaway, Martin F. Celaya

“…The Arizona sample included high school students in grades 9–12 who were enrolled in public and charter schools. This study revealed that nearly three of four adolescents experienced an ACE, and one of five experienced ≥4 ACEs. …”
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Evolution of the COVID-19 Pandemic after the Introduction of School Referral Nurses in the Province of Granada—A Descriptive Study by Juan Carlos Sánchez-García, Ana Eugenia Marín-Jiménez, María Isabel Tovar-Gálvez, Jonathan Cortés-Martín, María Montiel-Troya, María José Menor-Rodríguez, Raquel Rodríguez-Blanque

“…The study participants were all schools under the jurisdiction of the Territorial Delegation of Education of Granada, whether public, private, state-subsidised or charter schools, including all educational stages. Results: The confirmation rate in Granada city (11.2%), in contrast to the Andalusian average (6.9%), places Granada as the province with the highest incidence rate. …”
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Indirect violence exposure and mental health symptoms among an urban public-school population: Prevalence and correlates. by Erica L Gollub, Jakevia Green, Lisa Richardson, Ilyssa Kaplan, Denese Shervington

“…The 1548 participants for this study were enrolled from 28 public charter schools and 9 community-based settings; youth were administered a screener that assessed exposure to traumatic events and symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression. …”
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School Vision Screening Data Informing a County-Based Community Health Needs Assessment by John A. Musser

“…Methods: Descriptive statistics and paired t-Tests (p < 0.05) were calculated for the number of students receiving vision screening, number of students referred to an eyecare provider, number of students receiving follow-up vision care, the vision screening referral rate, and follow-up rate for all public and charter schools in the state of Arkansas. Findings: The mean number of students screened in rural counties (mean +/- SD; 1530.5 +/- 1170.9) was statistically significantly (t-Test 2-tail, p = 0.003) lower than the mean number of students screened in urban counties (7301.10 +/- 7663.45). …”
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Taking sides : clashing views in special education / by Byrnes, MaryAnn

Essays in the economics of education by Zárate, Román Andrés(Zárate Vasquez), Angrist, Joshua David, Pathak, Parag A.

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