Study Finds Research on Management Groups Lacking
Some of the most prominent educational management organizations hired to run schools have a thin, or nonexistent, research base to prove they work, according to a consumer guide released last week by a Washington-based research group.
Under a three-year U.S. Department of Education grant, researchers from the American Institutes for Research weighed the research evidence on seven widely used educational management organizations, or EMOs. Such organizations, also known as educational service providers, are outside nonprofit or for-profit operators of public schools.
Only one of the EMOs—Edison Schools Inc., a New York City-based for-profit company—could produce enough high-quality studies to show that its schools can improve student achievement. It earned a “moderate” effectiveness rating from the research group. But no providers got AIR’s top two ratings: “moderately...
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