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Rewarding Failure: An Education Week Investigation of the Cyber Charter Industry

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Channel: Education Week · 2016 · News & Politics

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With growing evidence that the nation’s cyber charter schools are plagued by serious academic and management problems, Education Week conducted a months-long investigation into what is happening in this niche sector of K-12 schooling. The result is a digital-only, deep-dive account of what’s wrong with cyber charters. Education Week uncovered exclusive data on how rarely students use the learning software at Colorado’s largest cyber charter, the questionable management practices in online charters, and how lobbying in scores of states helps keep the sector growing. 

This investigation won the 2016 Education Writers Association National Award for Education Reporting, Investigative Reporting: Magazines and Weeklies.

The full report is available here: http://www.edweek.org/ew/projects/rewarding-failure-cyber-charter-investigation.html ____________________

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