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Charter Schools in Eight States: Effects on Achievement, Attainment, Integration, and Competition
This book examines charter schools in eight states, assessing student characteristics; their effectiveness in raising student achievement, graduation, and college entry; and their competitive effects on achievement in traditional public schools.Assessing the Future of Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh: Pathways to Sustainability
This report uggests opportunities related to sustainable funding for Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh (CLP)
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Achievement and Attainment in Chicago Charter Schools
This groundbreaking report finds that students attending “multi-grade” charter high schools in Chicago attain substantially higher rates of graduation and college entry than do students in traditional public high schools.
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Qatar
The leadership of the Arabian Gulf nation of Qatar sees education as the key to Qatar's economic and social progress. Long concerned that the country's education system was not meeting the needs of its society, the Qatari leadership approached the RAND Corporation in 2001, asking it to examine the kindergarten through grade 12 (K-12) education system. Learn More >
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Developing a School Finance System for K-12 Reform in Qatar — 2009
Cassandra M. Guarino, Titus Galama, Louay Constant, Gabriella Gonzalez, Jeffery C. Tanner, Charles A. Goldman
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