And a 2015 Stanford University study cited by the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools showed that low - income
Black students in charter schools gain the equivalent of 29 extra days of learning in reading and 36 extra days of learning in math per year compared with their Black counterparts in traditional district schools.
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Black students in charter schools gained the equivalent of 33 fewer days of learning in reading and 30 fewer days in math than their counterparts in non-charter schools - Latino students in charter schools gained the equivalent of 30 fewer days in reading but 21 more days in math - Asian students in charter schools gained the equivalent of 75 fewer days in reading and 53 fewer days in math - White students in charter schools gained the equivalent of 107 fewer days in reading but 9 more days in math
Not exact matches
The CREDO analysis also shows that Michigan's low - income
students, who comprise the vast majority of
charter students in Detroit, make modest achievement
gains (less than a month of additional learning
in math each year) compared to district
schools, as do
black and Hispanic
students.
«Learning
gains for
charter school students are larger by significant amounts for
Black, Hispanic, low - income, and special education
students in both math and reading.»
«The [Tulane] authors also report that the [academic]
gains were not equal across groups: white
students gained more than
black students from the reforms,» according to the NEPC, also noting that a large - scale out - migration of higher income
students may have resulted
in inflated growth scores for the
charter schools.
Typical is a study released by Stanford researchers
in 2013 that showed
black students gained the equivalent of 14 days of learning by attending
charter schools and that
black students living
in poverty saw even greater benefits,
gaining the equivalent of 29 days
in reading and 36 days
in math.
Learning
gains for
charter school students are larger by significant amounts for
black, Hispanic, low - income and special needs
students in both math and reading, the study found.