Matters of Policy & Politics

Area 45: Charting A Course For Charter Schools

School Choice – What Are The Choices?

Matters of Policy & PoliticsApril 12, 2018
Area 45: Charting A Course For Charter Schools

A quarter of a century since the nation’s first charter school opened in Minnesota, a new administration in Washington speaks of “school choice.” Eric Hanushek, the Hoover Institution’s Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow, and Macke Raymond, a Hoover distinguished research fellow and director of the Stanford-based Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO), discuss the health of the charter-school movement and what needs to be done at the federal, state, and local levels to improve the nation’s classrooms.

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Eric Hanushek

Eric Hanushek

Margaret (Macke) Raymond

Margaret (Macke) Raymond

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