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The article reports that a national panel in the U.S. is raising concerns about the quality of much of the research on charter school achievement, and has outlined recommendations to help ensure better analyses in the future. The first in a series of white papers from the group of researchers notes that while the volume of research on student performance in charters has grown dramatically, the actual quality of that research doesn't seem to be improving. The paper was drafted by the Charter School Achievement Consensus Panel, a group convened by the National Charter School Research Project at the University of Washington in Seattle.