Opinion: Rather than welcoming student achievement at competing schools, teachers unions are trying to stop the success of charter schools from spreading
One critique of charter schools is that while a few energetic principals show success, it’s impossible to replicate. Not so, says a new study of Boston’s charters, which doubled from 16 schools to 32 in four years, even as they maintained their effectiveness.
“It appears that proven providers successfully transmitted hiring and pedagogical practices to new campuses,” the authors write in a working paper posted last week by the National Bureau of Economic Research. “Expansion charters generate achievement gains comparable...
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