The Campbell Collaborationwww.campbellcollaboration.org EDUCATION PANEL Impact of Charter Schools on Participants and Non- Participants THURSDAY MAY NOON Chair/Discussant: Gary W. Ritter Co-Chair – Education Coordinating Group Campbell Collaboration Colloquium Copenhagen 2012

The Campbell Collaborationwww.campbellcollaboration.org A Departure … (5? Minute intro) I will make my discussant comments at front end Provide some food for thought for audience Starting Point – What is a US Charter School? – Middle road of school choice – publicly-funded school, independent from local authority, open-enrollment Research Questions/Charter Theories? – Emily – how do charters influence kids who choose them? – Marty – how do charters surrounding TPS?

The Campbell Collaborationwww.campbellcollaboration.org Funding Opportunities Mini-grants (between $6K - $14K per project) Not full funding, but perhaps enough prompting to get reviews moving Goal – get reviews focused on policy relevant questions – charters, school restructuring, teacher pay reform, impact of professional development Award decisions made by panel and responses will be turned around quickly Objective – get C2 into the policy discussion

The Campbell Collaborationwww.campbellcollaboration.org Why are these questions important? We / C2 need to decide extent to which Campbell strays from clean T v. C interventions Given important conversation about the relationships between research and policy …. – These questions are certainly policy relevant – Policymakers need answers, IG happy to oblige … – Gives us the opportunity to think about how C2 will engage/advocate with policymakers (advocate FOR evidence) We / C2 also can use this as a test case for taking existing reviews and “Campbell-izing” them

The Campbell Collaborationwww.campbellcollaboration.org Food for Thought … Charter Effects There are many further questions that Emily’s study prompts – Do certain charters work and others fail? – What about the common lore that charters do poorly in early years and better after that? – What should policymakers do? Author will present vote-count and average effect – how different are the resulting answers?

The Campbell Collaborationwww.campbellcollaboration.org Food for Thought … Competitive Effects Work in process Competition is a messy “intervention” – Number of charters within 2, 5, 10 miles? – % of kids in charters in geographic region, etc.. – Intervention is continuous …how should we derive an “effect size”? (regression betas, Correlation coefficients) Keep an eye on the decisions the authors have made here; great example of all the difficult decisions that must be made in the course of a review

The Campbell Collaborationwww.campbellcollaboration.org P.O. Box 7004 St. Olavs plass 0130 Oslo, Norway Mostly, we are so pleased that more researchers are getting involved in this work We will have funding (most likely) for those interested in studying policy relevenat questions in K12 education policy Please get involved …. Thanks!

The Campbell Collaborationwww.campbellcollaboration.org Meeting Agenda What do we talk about? (K12 ed, higher ed) Tomorrow – 2 ed sessions Funding opportunities (policy relevant questions – charters, school restructuring, teacher pay reform) Editorial Board (peer reviewer, author) Where we hope to go