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Lake, Robin; Bowen, Melissa; Demeritt, Allison; McCullough, Moira; Haimson, Joshua; Gill, Brian – Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., 2012
The National Study of Charter Management Organization (CMO) Effectiveness is a four-year study designed to assess the impact of CMOs on student achievement and to identify effective structures and practices. An earlier report from this study documented the substantial variation in CMO student achievement impacts as well as variation in CMOs' use…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Charter Schools, Student Behavior, School Culture
Akopoff, Tanya M. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
A current trend in education is that small teacher groups, called professional learning communities (PLC), are being advocated as a tool to help teachers reach struggling students. Educators planning to use PLC as an intervention strategy can benefit from research-based information about PLC best practices. This multiple case study addressed the…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, High Schools, Intervention, Comparative Analysis