Charter schools have been on the educational reform landscape for over twenty years. In the
last ten years, a number of rigorous studies have examined the effects of these schools on …

Ability grouping appears to be a logical means of organizing a student body with diverse
academic skills. Many observers contend, however, that the practice favors students in high-…

On the topic of stratification in secondary schools, this paper uses ethnographic research to
interpret the findings of survey analyses and uses survey studies to assess the causal …

Market reforms in education are part of the educational policy landscape in many countries.
Central to arguments for market reforms is the idea that competition and choice will spur …

Not only have school choice policies significantly expanded in the last decade, but also the
research has become more sophisticated and nuanced. We have moved beyond simple …

About a decade ago, New American Schools (NAS) set out to address theperceived lagging
performance of American students and the lacklusterresults of school reform efforts. As a …

De facto tracking-the association between students' courses in disparate subjects, regardless
of the decline of institutional mechanisms that organized de jure tracking-is a contested …

Teacher supply and demand issues are of critical importance as our society enters the 21st
century. Over the next decade, there will be an increasing demand for new teachers––about …

Representing data. or depicting research evidence so that others can appreciate and use it.
has always been a major research issue in social science and education. In experimental …

This paper examines the polarization model from qualitative research in both Great Britain
and the US, which claims that educational stratification practices polarize students into pro- …