«The vast majority of charter schools get no better and no worse test - based results than
comparable regular public schools,» Matthew Di Carlo, a senior fellow at the Albert Shanker Institute, wrote in a recent policy brief that examined a large body of charter - school research.
ONE OF THE long - standing misperceptions about charter schools is that they cherry - pick the better students from an area, resulting in higher test scores than in
comparable regular public schools...
Not exact matches
The same Stanford researcher conducted an RCT of charter
schools in Chicago and found: «students in charter
schools outperformed a
comparable group of lotteried - out students who remained in
regular Chicago
public schools by 5 to 6 percentile points in math and about 5 percentile points in reading....
Even when researchers can evaluate charter
schools that are large enough to contribute useful results to a study, old enough to have a track record, and representative of a substantial share of all charter
schools, they face a daunting analytical challenge: finding students in the
regular public schools who are truly
comparable to the charter
school students.
But students who use vouchers or attend charter
schools generally do no better academically than
comparable students who remain in
regular public schools.
A large - scale government - financed study has concluded that students in
regular public schools do as well or significantly better in math than
comparable students in private
schools.
«The first national comparison of test scores among children in charter
schools and
regular public schools shows charter
school students often doing worse than
comparable students in
regular public schools,» read the opening sentence.
First: The Times claims that the NAEP - based comparison «shows charter
school students often doing worse than
comparable students in
regular public schools.»
Similarly for students attending charter
schools, those students generally do not have higher academic achievement than
comparable students in
regular public schools.
The first national comparison of test scores among children in charter
schools and
regular public schools shows charter
school students often doing worse than
comparable students in
regular public schools...