This December 2011 working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research examines operations and performance at 35 charter schools and discusses how practices and approaches at schools correlate to school effectiveness.The working paper includes an overview of literature that examines ways to increase school effectiveness, as well as analyses of measures for functions such as teacher feedback, parental engagement, and school culture and expectations.

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