What Does the Research Say about Charter Schools, Strategies, and Student Achievement?

The National Charter School Resource Center hosted a webinar April 20, 2011 that explored  recent research studies that focus on student achievement in charter schools. The presenters reviewed the rigorous research that has been conducted about student achievement in charter schools, discussed how to appropriately interpret the findings of these studies, and then reviewed the highlights from Out of the Debate and Into the Schools, a recent American Institutes for Research (AIR) study that examined specific strategies and practices that may account for differences in student achievement in Boston’s high-performing charter schools.

Featured presenters included Susan Bowles Therriault, Ed.D., and Allison Gruner Gandhi, Ed.D., both senior research analysts at American Institutes for Research.