The mission of REACH is to provide objective, rigorous, and applicable research that informs and improves school choice policy design and implementation to increase opportunities and outcomes for disadvantaged students.
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This study examines how online reviews like those on GreatSchools help parents navigate schooling options for their children. Researchers analyzed over 600,000 reviews from 84,000 schools to understand how these reviews reflect the experiences and priorities of different users and school types, providing key information for families making school choice decisions.
The transportation that schools offer affects school choice decisions, according to new research on kindergarten students in Detroit.
This study is about virtual schooling during the COVID-19 pandemic in Oregon.
As concerns about a growing teacher shortage continue to mount, a recently published policy brief titled "Viral Change: Trends in Michigan Teacher Attrition and Mobility Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic" sheds light on the impact of the pandemic on teacher retention and movement within the state.
The National Longitudinal School Database (NLSD) was created by the National Center for Research on Education Access and Choice (REACH) to allow researchers to examine various aspects of traditional public schools, charter schools, magnet schools, and private schools.
REACH examines the complex landscape of charter school regulation and its impact on student outcomes.