'School chains' website aims to boost choice

A new website -- www.schoolchains.org -- aims to boost educational choice by highlighting the many high-quality school chains around the world.

So far the recently opened website has details on 80 school chains that operate an 37,000 individual school locations around the world.

The growing list includes schools specialising in mathematics, autism, inner-city youth, science, rural locations, recent immigrant students.

The site lets you search detailed profiles of the schools based on criteria including curriculum, target student, religion, location, and more.

To qualify as a school chain for the website, organisations must have been successfully replicated in three or more locations; be guided by a clearly communicated mission; and objectively measure the extent to which they meet their intended goals.

The site is run by a prominent Canadian think tank, the Fraser Institute.

School Chains is at this web page.