Sentences with phrase «gains by charter»

Officials said the gains by charter schools are driven in part by the presence of more high - performing schools and the closure of under - performing ones.

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So even as Stanford economist Caroline Hoxby reports solid gains by charter pupils in New York City, Ohio's school - rating system for academic year 2008 - 9 showed that just 16 % of Buckeye charter pupils were in schools rated «excellent» or «effective,» while 55 % of them attended schools on «academic watch» or in «academic emergency.»

If inferior test score gains by charter schools is the heart of the piece, you would think that the article would present evidence supporting that claim.

Not exact matches

«Once again, New York City's public charter schools are driving the gains made by the city's highest - need students,» said Families for Excellent Schools CEO Jeremiah Kittredge.

Is his choice more charters to serve investors that reap monetary gain and hedge (pun intended) their perception of success by returning troubled students to their local public institution?

She said that many schools had made efforts to secede from the school district and gain charters prior to the hurricane, and there was nothing being urged by the federal government.

The Mathematica study of charter middle schools, just released by the U. S. Department of Education, finds no achievement gains within two years for students who won the charter lottery as compared to those who did not.

We must be able to tell the story of how gains are being made in communities served by charters.

New Orleans's polycentric administrative structure — with schools run by the state and the school board as well as by autonomous charter organizations — has fostered competition and performance gains.

Despite making far larger test - score gains than students attending open - enrollment district schools, and despite the emphasis their schools place on cultivating non-cognitive skills, charter school students exhibit markedly lower average levels of self - control as measured by student self - reports (see Figure 2).

They have been embraced by Presidents Clinton, Bush, and Obama, and they have gained strong support in African American and Hispanic communities, where students are benefiting the most from charters.

Thus we use a method that in effect compares the test - score gains of individual students in charter schools with the test - score gains made by the same students when they were in traditional public schools.

We first compare the average gains made by all students in charter schools with the gains made by students in traditional public schools, taking into account differences in gender, ethnicity, and the highest level of education completed by their parents.

Early evidence suggested that quality control was indeed a concern: The achievement gains made by charter students in Arizona, in particular, often lagged that of their district peers through 2012.

Our results suggest that traditional public schools did not respond to competition from charter schools by becoming more effective, at least as measured by the learning gains made by individual students in the years immediately following establishment of charter schools.

As explained above, we address the problem of self - selection by comparing the gains made by students the years they were in charter schools with the gains made by the same students the years they were in traditional public schools.

This pattern provides strong evidence that the smaller gains made by these charter school students are indeed due to the quality of the schools they attend rather than to any unobserved differences between charter school students and students in traditional public schools.

The results of our analysis of these «switchers,» which continues to take into account the difficulties associated with moving between schools, again indicate that students make smaller gains while enrolled in charter schools, by nearly 0.10 standard deviations in reading and 0.16 standard deviations in math.

However, it is also clear that the initial achievement hit these students take is not offset by gains in subsequent years, so that even this group, which is harmed least by attending a charter school, still has lower levels of achievement as a result of attending a charter school.

A study of test scores from 2010 through 2014, by economists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Duke University, found that Denver's charters produced «remarkably large gains in math,» large gains in writing, and smaller but statistically significant gains in reading, compared to DPS - operated schools.

Such studies, which compare the annual gains made by students in charter schools with the gains made by the same student while attending a traditional public school, draw only on the experiences of students who were tested for at least two years in the regular public schools before attending a charter school.

We could spend an entire EdNext volume arguing over the CREDO results alone, but I think some things are clear: one, nationally, low - income kids gain faster in charters than in district schools; two, many of CREDO's state and city - specific studies show very strong comparative gains for low - income charter students; and three, the movement as a whole has made significant progress by doing exactly what the model calls for and closing low - performing schools.

When charter students moved to higher - quality schools, they gained an additional fifty - eight days of learning in reading and eighty - eight days of learning in math by the third year after their school closed.

According to a 2015 study by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) at Stanford University, students enrolled in urban charter schools gained 40 additional days of learning in math per year and 28 additional days in reading compared to students in district schools.

So, he asks «whether regulators are any good at identifying which schools will contribute to test score gains» and then says this: «The bottom line is that none of the factors used by authorizers to open or renew charter schools in New Orleans were predictive of how much test score growth these schools could produce later on.»

Research by Marty West and colleagues of no excuses charter schools in Boston found large gains in test scores but also significantly lowered student performance on noncognitive measures.

When public schools integrate these elements — as in a pilot project run by Harvard economist Roland Fryer in Houston, early evidence suggests those schools are seeing the same gains as high - performing charters.

Charter critics have argued that large achievement gains at No Excuses charter schools are driven in part by efforts to encourage weaker or less committed students toCharter critics have argued that large achievement gains at No Excuses charter schools are driven in part by efforts to encourage weaker or less committed students tocharter schools are driven in part by efforts to encourage weaker or less committed students to leave.

In practice, about a fifth of lottery winners never attend a charter school, and some lottery losers eventually end up in a charter school (by entering a future admissions lottery, gaining sibling preference when a sibling wins the lottery, or moving off a waitlist after the offers coded by our instrument were made).

The first a scatterplot of the 8th grade reading 2017 scores by gains (2017 minus 2009 scores) for all 50 states and all 16 state charter sectors with scores in both 2017 and 2009.

Political and Social Climate: A clear sense of this aspect of the climate relative to the establishment of charter schools in Michigan was gained by reading the background information and description of the establishment of the authorizing agencies, especially with reference to the authority of the universities to act as charter school authorizers.

Texting parents about students» missing assignments produces similar achievement gains on test scores as those produced by high - performing charter schools.

Although charter and non-charter gains during Rhee can be separated under NAEP, the Rhee administration closed a number of schools in DC during the 2007 - 09 period causing enrollment in charters to increase by half and enrollment in non-charter DC public schools to decrease by one quarter in only two years.

By the final year of the study (2014 - 15), charter school students had gained the equivalent of 40 extra days of learning in reading and 46 extra days in math.

A study by Stanford's Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) finds that over the course of three years, Texas charter school students on average gained the equivalent of 17 more days of reading instruction per year than their district school peers.

A study by analysts from the National Bureau of Economic Research and MIT recently examined student - level gains in «takeover» schools in Boston and New Orleans — in the latter case, eleven direct - run RSD schools that were put under charter management since 2008.

Education reform proposals, including charters, could improve Washington state Education reforms proposed by Gov. Chris Gregoire and the state Legislature should gain traction.

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 sCharter 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 scharter 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.

With 1.4 million students in 4,600 schools, charters are by far the most significant achievement of the «choice» movement that strives to promote educational gains through school competition.

The strategy is becoming all too clear — ignore poverty, blame the effects of poverty on teachers, maintain the public perception of failing teachers and schools with an A-F formula that is designed to rank order students so that the bottom 33 percent will always exist (no matter how much achievement gains are made), use it to designate teachers and schools with low grades, then create a red herring for an impatient public by offering a placebo known as charter schools and school choice to appease them.

For schools nearing the end of their current charter term, CEI can help prepare your renewal application, conduct mock school visits to prepare for your authorizer review, and address any issues raised by the authorizer required to gain charter renewal.

Most of that gain is captured by a few large charter organizations.

«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.»

Boston's Charter Schools Show Significant Gains — Boston charter school students outperformed their counterparts at traditional public schools and at charter schools in other urban areas by a striking margin over a recent six - year span, a Stanford University studyCharter Schools Show Significant Gains — Boston charter school students outperformed their counterparts at traditional public schools and at charter schools in other urban areas by a striking margin over a recent six - year span, a Stanford University studycharter school students outperformed their counterparts at traditional public schools and at charter schools in other urban areas by a striking margin over a recent six - year span, a Stanford University studycharter schools in other urban areas by a striking margin over a recent six - year span, a Stanford University study found.

The data show that when measured as their own «state», Arizona charter students outpaced the gains realized by their state level peers in all four major tested subjects: fourth grade reading and math, as well as eighth grade reading and math.

A 2016 Student Achievement Report published this week by the Florida Department of Education (DOE) shows the state's charter school students are outperforming students in traditional Florida public schools in overall achievement and in learning gains.

If you look at the extra days of learning students in Los Angeles, D.C., Boston and New York gain by attending a charter, you'll understand why charter enrollments are surging and wait lists growing longer.

Finch, who as mayor of Bridgeport undermined Bridgeport's public schools, supported and defended education reformer extraordinaire Paul Vallas, handed tens of millions of dollars in public funds to the charter school industry and used his power for personal gain, has landed nicely on his feet, after getting thrown out of office by Bridgeport voters.