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March 17, 2008

Single-Minded Focus on Success

Jay Greene, now part the research arm at University of Arkansas, walks us through the accumulating research that illuminates the positive influence charters are having on student achievement and system improvement. Greene reminds us, it's all about giving families choices - choices to opt out, and choices to opt in: "Students learn more when they can choose a charter school. Competition from charter schools also spurs improvement in traditional public schools." Charter founder Jack L. Perry is working to have just impact on young men in Delaware that other charters are having in other states. Research has found that single-sex schools provide an excellent educational option particularly for at-risk boys and girls underserved by the traditional school system, and Perry is working to make that option - one that has been available to affluent families for decades - a reality for more at-risk boys in the First State.

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