Sentences with phrase «math than their public school peers»

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This analysis (again the Newspeak) builds on a large body of program evaluations in Louisiana, Indiana, Ohio, and Washington, D.C., all of which show that students attending participating private schools perform significantly worse than their peers in public schools — especially in math.

While we estimated that, after one year, African - American students scored 7 percentile points higher on the math portion of the Iowa Test of Basic Skills than their peers in public schools, Barnard reports impacts of 6 percentile points for African - American students from low - performing public schools.

In eighth grade, for example, in both reading and math, as recently as 2015, pupils in Catholic schools outperformed their public - school peers by a solid margin — more so in reading than in math.

On average in the three cities, African - American students who switched from public to private schools scored 6.3 percentile points higher than their peers in the control group on the reading portion of the test and 6.2 points higher on the math portion.

She found that students at charter schools performed 5 % better on state reading tests than their traditional public school peers and that charter school students performed 3 % better on state math tests than similar students at public schools.

In Illinois, charter school students were 21 % more proficient on their state math tests and 16 % more proficient on their state reading tests than their regular public school peers.

The WaPo reporters then claim, «But a U.S. Department of Education study released in June showed that students in the program generally scored no higher on reading and math tests after two years than public school peers.»

The Bay Area, Boston, D.C., Memphis, New Orleans, New York City and Newark are much stronger than their traditional public school peers in math.

the typical student in a New York City public charter school gains more learning in a year than his or her peer in a district public school, amounting to about one more month of learning in reading and five more months of learning in math.

The results for the typical student in a Harlem public charter school — approximately 25 percent of the city's charter students — were even more pronounced in math, on average gaining seven more months than his or her peer in a district public school, but less than a full additional month in reading.

DeVos supporters point to a 2013 Stanford study that found that Michigan charter - school students are learning at a faster rate in reading and math than their public - school peers — seeing an additional two months of gains in each subject.

A 2011 report (PDF) by Stanford's Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO), using a different methodology, indicated students in Pennsylvania's online charter schools «have significantly smaller gains in reading and math than those of their traditional public school peers.»

In Cleveland, voucher students in most grades performed worse than their peers in public schools in math, though they did better in reading.

A 2015 study on urban charter schools by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes at Stanford University found that D.C. charter students are learning the equivalent of 96 more days in math and 70 more days in reading than their peers in traditional public schools.

In one study, voucher students did no better than peers in the public schools for four years, then outpaced them in reading — but not math — in the fifth year.

The most recent charter school study, from Stanford University's Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO), finds that academic growth among Boston charter school students is more than four times that of their traditional public school peers in English and more than six times greater in math.

More than half of the voucher students tested below the national average in reading, math and language and overall performed below their peers in public schools though it is not a precise comparison because the law allows voucher schools to select their own national tests.