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.
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 Kit
schools are driving the
gains made
by the city's highest - need students,» said Families for Excellent
Schools CEO Jeremiah Kit
Schools CEO Jeremiah Kittredge.
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.
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).
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.
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 to
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 to
charter schools are driven in part
by efforts to encourage weaker or less committed students to leave.
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.»
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).
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.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio discredits the amazing
gains by charter students - and many push back, we hear from a Connecticut
charter school leader,...
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 s
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 s
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 s
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 s
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
schoolsschools.
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.
«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 study
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 study
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 study
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 study
schools and at
charter schools in other urban areas by a striking margin over a recent six - year span, a Stanford University study
charter schools in other urban areas by a striking margin over a recent six - year span, a Stanford University study
schools in other urban areas
by a striking margin over a recent six - year span, a Stanford University study found.
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.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio discredits the amazing
gains by charter students - and many push back, we hear from a Connecticut
charter school leader, and we have a brand new podcast for you!
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.
And in New Orleans, which was almost completely taken over
by charter school operators, significant academic
gains have been made
by students — but it's a situation not easily replicated as the city had reached rock bottom status thanks to Hurricane Katrina.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla., (April 14, 2017)-- 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.
In California, the study found that
charters overall did about the same as regular public
schools, with reading
gains more or less balanced
by the math deficit.
Although one can't consider the results
gains because the tests and testing rules changed, the figures have encouraged many: In the English exams for grades 3 - 8, the traditional public
schools passage rate «rose»
by 7.6 percentage points, and for
charter schools, the figure was up 13.7 percentage points.
With high profile turnarounds operated
by charter schools that have shown record
gains or modest but steady cultural and academic improvement, the argument that
charters can't serve local communities is ebbing.
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.
She said she expected the state would
gain points because of legislation signed
by Gov. Don Carcieri last month to raise the cap on
charter schools from 20 to 35.
An Ongoing Commitment to Accountability In a time where the state has suspended state testing, it is critically important for the
charter public
school movement to be able to tell the story of how
gains are being made statewide in communities being served
by charter schools.
The ones who ultimately lose out are the public
school students served
by charter schools, though
charters are
gaining momentum in spite of the gap in funds.