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.educationsector.org/usr_doc/RushToJudgment_ES_Jan08.pdf
In this report, the authors examine the causes and consequences of the crisis in teacher evaluation, as well as its implications for the current debate about performance pay for teachers. The report examines a number of strong evaluation systems - including those of charter schools – highlighting exemplary systems that can serve as models for other schools and systems. For example, Williamsburg Collegiate, a Brooklyn, N.Y., charter school, uses a two-leader model that allows one school director to evaluate and coach teachers regularly as the school's instructional leader, while a second director manages the school's non-academic operations. To compliment the instructional leader's evaluations, Collegiate brings in outside observers to observe every teacher as they conduct a daylong annual visit of the school.
Date: 2008
Source: Education Sector
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