A deeply held commitment to our partners
EdisonLearning is strictly accountable to our local partners for
implementing the EdisonLearning design, inspiring high levels of
satisfaction among parents, students, and school staff, and raising
student achievement. In every contract with its partners,
EdisonLearning agrees to provide exhaustive information about the
operation, achievement, and outcomes of our local partnership
school(s). We are also required by most charter school laws to
report on the ongoing progress of our schools.
More than obligation, however, motivates EdisonLearning to
carefully document the performance of our schools. As the nation’s
largest private provider of public education services,
EdisonLearning is a significant force in a broader movement to
improve public education, and we believe it is our responsibility
to take part in the national dialogue on this vital issue.
With our varied and vast experience in serving and supporting
public schools, EdisonLearning can provide useful information about
the effects of public-private partnerships on American education.
We believe it is essential that the public understands how such
partnerships can impact schooling, teaching, and learning.
Independent validation of the EdisonLearning approach
This belief is what fuels our commitment to complete
transparency of our results. Since the launch of our first schools
in 1995, we have released analyses of the individual performance of
all our schools. In 2000, EdisonLearning contracted the RAND
Corporation, one of the world’s premier social science and research
organizations to examine the performance of our schools. In 2003,
we provided documentation to the American Institutes of Research
(AIR) in its examination of comprehensive school reform models.
The results speak for themselves:
RAND report on
EdisonLearning
AIR report on comprehensive school reform models