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- Original Goals of Charter Schools - Reasons Why Goals for Charter Schools Have Not Been Achieved - Questions Policy Makers Should be Asking - Who Stole My Charter School Reform? - Quality versus Quantity

I am in the middle of a lot of the debates going on throughout the country about education today. On one hand I am encouraged by the fact that we are focused on learning, although too often I would say that gets translated as a focus on achievement. And they're not quite the same. When you focus on achievement, you focus on test scores and you could miss out on whether or not the kids are actually learning. And we have ample evidence, based on the test scores, that sometimes the kids still aren't learning

In 2004, the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences contracted with Mathematica Policy Research to conduct a large-scale evaluation of comprehensive teacher induction. The purpose of the study was to determine whether augmenting the set of services districts usually provide to support beginning  teachers with a more comprehensive program improves teacher and student outcomes. This is the study's third and final report on the program's impacts.