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...
Similarly for students attending charter schools, those students generally do not have higher academic achievement than
comparable students in regular public schools.
First: The Times claims that the NAEP - based comparison «shows charter school students often doing worse 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,» read the opening sentence.
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.
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...
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.