Inspiration, Perspiration, and Time: Operations and Achievement in Edison Schools Book

Ch. 1	Introduction	1
Ch. 2	A brief history of Edison schools and a review of existing literature	7
Ch. 3	Inspiration : Edison's strategies for "world-class" education	23
Ch. 4	Perspiration : the Edison model in the schools	53
Ch. 5	Methodology for examining academic achievement in Edison schools	93
Ch. 6	Time : effects of Edison management on academic achievement	119
Ch. 7	Inside the black box : differences in achievement among Edison schools	145
Ch. 8	Conclusions and implications	163
App. A	Causal inference in the analysis of academic achievement in Edison schools	177
App. B	Analyses in which each Edison school was included	185
App. C	Calculating standard errors for estimated effects	195
App. D	Comparison of traditional and rank-based Z-scores	201
App. E	Comparison of gain score method to an alternative approach using predicted level scores	203
App. F	Comparison of schools with large and small enrollment change between Y0 and Y1	205
App. G	Changes in demographic characteristics of Edison students through years four and five	207
App. H	Comparison of results for Philadelphia schools and other schools	209
App. I	Comparison of recent change analyses using district versus state comparison schools	211
App. J	Comparison of Y1 and Y0 results using district versus state comparison schools	213
App. K	Supplemental analyses to explore the Y0 results	215
App. L	Comparison of Y1 and Y0 analyses using a common set of Edison schools	233
App. M	Differences in Z-score changes for Edison schools that were managed by Edison for at least four years	235