Charter schools

Overview

Influence: Charter schools
Domain: School
Sub-Domain: Types of schools
Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Likely to have a small positive impact
Influence Definition: Schools that receive government funding but are independent of the public school system, and sometimes privately run. They operate as schools of choice typically adhering to the regulations of public schools. In some countries they are called Academies or Trust schools and they typically share more freedoms from the government regulations that apply to most schools.

Meta-Analyses
Journal Title	Author	Article Name	Year Published	Variable	Number of Studies	Number of Students	Number of Effects	Effect Size
Conference paper	Miron & Nelson	Student Academic Achievement in Charter Schools: What We Know and Why We Know So Little	2001	Charter schools	18	NA	18	0.20
Report	Betts & Tang	Value-added and experimental studies of the effect of charter schools on student achievement	2008	Charter schools	191	NA	191	0.01
Campbell Collaboration	Krowka, Hadd, & Marx	"No Excuses" Charter Schools for Increasing Math and Literacy Achievement in Primary and Secondary Education	2017	Charter schools	73	NA	146	0.14
Dissertation	Erickson	Examining a decade of reading and mathematics student achievement among primary and secondary traditional public school and charter school students: A meta-analytic investigation	2013	Charter schools	11	NA	122	-0.27
Journal of School Choice	Cheng, Hitt, Kisida, & Mills	"No excuses" charter schools: A meta-analysis of the experimental evidence on student achievement	2017	No excuse charter schools	17	NA	266	0.14
Peabody Journal of Education	Jeynes	A Meta-Analysis on the Effects and Contributions of Public, Public Charter, and Religious Schools on Student Outcomes	2012	Charter schools	37	NA	37	0.01
TOTAL/AVERAGE						347	NA	780	0.04