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Helen Ladd

Choice and consequences

National
Updated January 10, 2018

The cost of charter growth: New research estimates the price tag for districts

As charter schools have expanded, critics have offered a similar complaint: they they drain money from public school districts. A new study puts a price tag on this.

across the pond

National
September 21, 2017

Does England’s rapid expansion of charter-like ‘academies’ hold a lesson for the U.S.?

Is autonomy itself likely to improve schools? A new study offers a sobering answer.

Pre-K payoff

Tennessee
November 16, 2016

North Carolina just countered Tennessee’s findings on pre-K fadeout. Here’s the difference, according to researchers.

A year after a Vanderbilt study revealed weaknesses in public pre-K, a North Carolina study suggests public pre-K can work, at a cost.