School choice and charter school advocates increasingly contend test scores provide a limited snapshot of a school’s effectiveness, maintaining other factors may be more telling, including graduation ...

The University of Arkansas today released what it calls a "first ever" study exploring the relationship between charter school funding and student achievement.Here at NPR Ed we get a lot of press ...

Fielding phone calls from parents asking about enrollment is part of everyday business for schools, but for some charter schools, the person on the other end of the line may only be posing as a parent ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new study of charter schools in Massachusetts has identified strikingly positive academic results. The paper, released last week ...