Focus Areas
Charter Schools
Our work in this area focuses on how charter schools govern and manage themselves to create high-quality learning communities. Studies include charter management organizations, charter schools and public-private partnerships, and developing multiple measures of charter school performance. LEARN MORE >
Decentralization
Our work in this area applies models of decentralization and market behavior, derived from research on high-performance organizations in the private sector, to schools to improve knowledge about the factors that facilitate and impede effective decentralization.
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Education Reform
Over the past ten years, there have been several different types of approaches to reforming American education. We have undertaken research projects investigating efforts to change education on a large scale, focusing on both school and district level issues and the intersection between them. LEARN MORE >
Leadership/Entrepreneurship
Researchers in the Center on Educational Governance study the implications for leadership within emerging and traditional school contexts. These include comprehensive school reform, charter schools, charter management organizations and other innovative forms of educational governance, including school networks. LEARN MORE >
Strategic Alliances in Education
Our work in this area focuses on studying the use of alliances across the public, for-profit and nonprofit sectors to improve the delivery of education services. In the past, we also conducted research on the Annenberg Challenge in Los Angeles, a reform that used school networks as vehicles to improve student achievement. LEARN MORE >
