burgeoned, relatively little attention has been paid to their effects on student achievement. Proponents of charter schools … suggest a direct effect on student achievement through the restructuring of teaching and learning processes and an indirect … result in higher achievement in traditional public schools as well. This paper focuses on student achievement in charter …

Bartik provides evidence showing that investment in quality preschool education provides economic payoffs, particularly …

This paper considers how a state such as Michigan can increase the economic development benefits of higher education …. Research evidence suggests that higher education increases local economic development principally by increasing the quality of … education can be increased by: 1) competent management of conventional economic development programs that focus on business …