High School Studies Eye Role of Charter Status, Teachers
Charter schools, teacher-credentialing requirements, and programs like Teach For America can all make a positive difference for student achievement in high school, according to a trio of new federally funded studies.
The studies, presented here during the March 24-28 annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, all come out of the National Center for the Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research , or CALDER, a federal research center based at the Urban Institute in Washington.
The center was launched two years ago to mine the longitudinal databases on student achievement that are piling up as states move to new data-collection systems that use individual “identifier” numbers. Such numbers make it possible to track students—and teachers— anonymously over time as they move from classroom to classroom...
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