Margaret Raymond
In the US, charter schools are primary or secondary schools that receive public money as well as private donations. They are subject to some of the regulations that apply to other public schools but generally have more flexibility than traditional public schools. Charter schools are expected to produce the results set forth in each school’s charter; they are attended by choice.
Margaret Raymond, CESifo visiting researcher from 4 to 9 September, is director of the Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University which analyses education reform efforts around the country. Ms Raymond is currently leading a national study of the effectiveness of public charter schools. The public-academic-private partnership helps public charter schools adopt information technologies as a means to both support their operations and generate information required by the study design. More than 250 public charter schools have joined the study to date.
From 1985 to 2000, Ms Raymond was president of Raymond Associates, a private consulting company specialising in public policy research projects and telecommunications policy formulation. She played an integral role in developing and analysing programmes for government agencies, non-profit organisations and corporations. Research areas included criminal and juvenile justice, welfare, social services, education, economic development and telecommunications. Between 1988 and 1992, she worked in the telecommunications industry, successfully creating coalitions among telecom executives and new market entrants to bring competition to local telephone services.
Margaret Raymond is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. She completed graduate degrees from the University of Rochester in public policy analysis (MS, 1980), community medicine (MS, 1982) and political science (MA, 1983). She earned a PhD in political science from the University of Rochester in 1985.