- CREDO National Chater School Study (Stanford University)
http://credo.stanford.edu/ - More on Charters: Debates and New Findings (Education Week)
http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/inside-school-research/2009/10/chances_are_you_know_all.html
Information that may be useful/benefitial for teahers of Japanese language in the U.S. (Some of the contents may rather be aginst language education, which I hope you will use to think about your counter argument.)