Failing Public Schools: Should They Learn From Thriving Charters?

What makes a charter school succeed and how exactly can we transfer these ideas to failing public schools?

These questions are examined in Roland G. Fryer's widely talked about report, “Learning From the Successes and Failures of Charter Schools.” Fryer is the CEO of EdLabs and an economics professor at Harvard University, the report was published as part of The Hamilton Project (the Brookings Institution).

http://news.yahoo.com/failing-public-schools-learn-thriving-charters-234015660.html