id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt WOS-000233455800004 Renzulli, LA Charter school policy, implementation, and diffusion across the United States 2005 .txt text/plain 170 5 17 The findings reveal a strong mimetic tendency among adjacent states to adopt charter school legislation and regional similarities in the creation of charter schools. This article applies theoretical and empirical insights on diffusion to a contemporary, important, and striking case in point: the groundswell of state legislation on and implementation of charter schools over the past decade. cache/WOS-000233455800004.txt txt/WOS-000233455800004.txt