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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http://www.ed.gov/programs/slcp/index.html
The U.S. Department of Education has announced a July 2nd application deadline for the Smaller Learning Communities Program. The initiative provides funds to LEAs to develop small, safe, and successful learning environments in large high schools as a part of comprehensive high school improvement plans. LEAs receive funds on behalf of large high schools to enable those schools to undertake research-based strategies to develop, implement, and expand smaller learning environments. Strategies for recasting large high schools as a set of small learning communities include: (1) establishing “houses,” career academies, magnet programs, and other “schools within a school”; (2) instituting block scheduling; (3) developing personal adult advocates, teacher-advisory systems, and other mentoring strategies; (4) reducing teaching loads; or (5) using other innovations to create a more personal experience for students.
Date: 2007
Source: United States Department of Education
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