Drawing Across School Boundaries: How Federally Funded Magnet Schools Recruit and Admit Students

This snapshot is a product of the first phase of a study assessing if students benefit from participating in magnet school programs.

How Does School Choice Affect Racial Integration?

This brief examines how school choice options, including charter schools, vouchers, magnet schools, district-wide choice, and inter-district choice, affect the racial and economic integration of students.

How Does School Choice Affect Student Achievement in Traditional Public Schools?

This brief describes how two types of school choice—charter schools and private school vouchers—affect student achievement in traditional public schools.

The Effects of a Principal Professional Development Program Focused on Instructional Leadership (Study Highlights)

Helping principals improve their leadership practices is a common use of federal funds and one way to improve instruction and student achievement.

The Effects of a Principal Professional Development Program Focused on Instructional Leadership

The Institute of Education Sciences conducted a random assignment study of an intensive professional development program for elementary school principals.

Final Impacts of the POWER Through Choices Program

This report presents the final impact findings from a large-scale demonstration project and evaluation of POWER Through Choices (PTC), a comprehensive sexual health education curriculum designed specifically for youth in foster care, the juvenile justice system, and other out-of-home care settings.

Understanding District-Charter Collaboration Grants (Final Report)

In November 2012, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation invested in seven innovative district-charter partnerships with “the potential capacity and commitment to accelerate student college ready rates through deep collaboration and sharing of best practices.”

Understanding District-Charter Collaboration (Issue Brief)

This issue brief summarizes findings from our examination of seven innovative partnerships between traditional public school districts and the charter school sector.

Student Selection, Attrition, and Replacement in KIPP Middle Schools (Journal Article)

Skeptics of the KIPP (Knowledge Is Power Program) charter school network argue that these schools rely on selective admission, attrition, and replacement of students to produce positive achievement results.

District-Charter Collaboration Grant Implementation: Findings for Teacher and Principal Surveys

This interim report examines the implementation of district-charter collaboration grants funded by the Gates Foundation.

Do Charter Schools Improve Student Achievement?

This article presents findings from a lottery-based study of the impacts of a broad set of 33 charter middle schools across 13 states on student achievement.

Examining States' Use of Policies and Practices Promoted by Race to the Top (In Focus Brief)

This brief summarizes findings from a new report from Mathematica’s multi-year evaluation of Race to the Top (RTT) for the Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences. It describes the policies and practices states reported using in spring 2012.

In Focus: Examining Schools' Use of Practices Promoted by School Improvement Grants (In Focus Brief)

This brief summarizes findings from a new report from Mathematica’s multi-year evaluation of School Improvement Grants (SIG) for the Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences. It describes the practices schools reported using in spring 2012.

Usage of Practices Promoted by School Improvement Grants

This report summarizes findings from Mathematica’s multi-year evaluation of School Improvement Grants (SIG) for the Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences. It describes the practices schools reported using in spring 2012.

Usage of Policies and Practices Promoted by Race to the Top

This report summarizes findings from Mathematica’s multi-year evaluation of Race to the Top (RTT) for the Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences. It describes the policies and practices states reported using in spring 2012.

Going to Scale: As KIPP Network Grows, Positive Impacts Are Sustained (In Focus Brief)

As the KIPP network of public charter schools continues to expand, KIPP is largely maintaining positive impacts on student achievement, according to Mathematica.

Understanding the Effect of KIPP as it Scales: Volume I, Impacts on Achievement and Other Outcomes (Executive Summary)

As the KIPP network of public charter schools continues to expand, KIPP is largely maintaining positive impacts on student achievement, according to Mathematica.

Understanding the Effect of KIPP as it Scales: Volume I, Impacts on Achievement and Other Outcomes

As the KIPP network of public charter schools continues to expand, KIPP is largely maintaining positive impacts on student achievement, according to Mathematica.

Understanding the Effect of KIPP as it Scales: Volume II, Leadership Practices at KIPP

To expand the network of KIPP charter schools, KIPP invested heavily in the development of new and existing leaders.

Does Student Attrition Explain KIPP's Success?

The Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP) is a network of charter schools designed to improve the educational opportunities available to low-income families. KIPP schools seek to boost their students’ academic achievement and ultimately prepare them to enroll and succeed in college.

KIPP Leadership Practices through 2010-2011

The Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP) is the largest public charter school network in the United States, with 141 elementary, middle, and high schools in the 2013–2014 school year.

Snapshot of KIPP Leadership Practices through 2010-2011

As part of the U.S. Department of Education's Investing in Innovation (i3) grant, the Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP) Foundation commissioned Mathematica to document leadership practices at KIPP schools.

Do KIPP Schools Boost Student Achievement?

This article measures the achievement impacts of 41 Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP) charter middle schools nationwide and found consistently positive and statistically significant test-score effects in reading, math, science, and social studies.

KIPP Middle Schools: Impacts on Achievement and Other Outcomes

This report shows that Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP) middle schools have significant and substantial positive impacts on student achievement in four core academic subjects: reading, math, science, and social studies.

KIPP Middle Schools: Impacts on Achievement and Other Outcomes (Executive Summary)

The Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP) is a rapidly expanding network of public charter schools whose mission is to improve the education of low-income children.

Do Charter Schools Improve Student Achievement? Evidence from a National Randomized Study

This paper looks at findings from the first national randomized study of the impacts of charter schools on student achievement.

Using Lotteries to Evaluate Schools of Choice: Evidence from a National Study of Charter Schools

This article draws on data and experiences observing and analyzing school lotteries from the National Evaluation of Charter School Impacts to describe challenges associated with lottery-based research.

Student Selection, Attrition, and Replacement at KIPP Middle Schools (Presentation)

This PowerPoint presentation was made at the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting.