Charter-Style Schools Catching on Across the World
Pioneering U.S. may be in best position to teach lessons to other nations
In the United Kingdom, an investor with £2 million—a little more than $3 million in U.S. currency—can start a publicly financed, privately run school.
That model of schooling, which the British call academies, is among a growing number of charter-style schools that are popping up in countries around the world, according to a pair of University of Southern California researchers. Dominic J. Brewer and Guilbert C. Hentschke studied the growth of these new-breed, hybrid schools in more than a dozen countries, including the United States.
Their observations were published this month in a chapter in the Handbook of Research on School Choice , a first-of-a-kind primer summarizing a wide swath of research on alternatives to traditional public schools. Pulled together under the auspices of the National Center on School Choice at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., the book’s 34 chapters were contributed by scholars all along the continuum in debates...
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