Twelve studies find that overall gains in charter schools are larger than other public schools; four find charter schools’ gains higher in certain significant categories of schools; six find comparable gains; and, four find that charter schools’ overall gains lagged behind traditional schools.
Source: Charter School Achievement: What We Know, July 2005 Update
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Download: 
http://www.edutopia.org/pdfs/ANewDayforLearning.pdf
The Time, Learning, and Afterschool Task Force (funded by the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation) has released a report about dramatically restructuring the school day/year. The document offers several recommendations for organizing school time more effectively and how to create a seamless learning day for children. The report includes "real life" charter schooling examples from Big Picture Schools and the Harlem Children’s Zone.
Date: 2007
Source: Edutopia: the George Lucas Educational Foundation
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