Sentences with phrase «gains than students in traditional public schools»

Second, students who choose to remain in charter schools do not continue to make smaller gains than students in traditional public schools after their initial year in a charter school.

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And, finally, do students who attend traditional public schools subject to competition from charter schools make larger achievement gains than they would have in the absence of charter schools?

We address three main questions: Do students attending charter schools in these grades make larger or smaller gains in achievement than they would have made in traditional public schools?

Students in these grades make considerably smaller achievement gains in charter schools than they would have in traditional public schools, and the negative effects are not limited to schools in their first year of operation.

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.

Based on the findings presented here, the typical student in Michigan charter schools gains more learning in a year than his [traditional public school (TPS)-RSB- counterparts, amounting to about two months of additional gains in reading and math.

Known as the CREDO study, it evaluated student progress on math tests in half the nation's five thousand charter schools and concluded that 17 percent were superior to a matched traditional public school; 37 percent were worse than the public school; and the remaining 46 percent had academic gains no different from that of a similar public school.

Studies conducted by Mathematica Policy Research show that KIPP schools achieve significantly greater gains in student achievement than do traditional public schools teaching similar students.

A independent national study released this year by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes shows charter school students have greater learning gains in reading than their peers in traditional public schools.

CREDO found that, on average, students in New Jersey charter schools are making greater gains in both reading and math than their counterparts in traditional public schools.

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.»

However, the study concludes that «elementary and middle - school charter students exhibited higher learning gains than equivalent students in the traditional public school system» and «students in poverty and English - language learners experience larger learning gains in charter schools.»

The charter students in Detroit gain over three months per year more than their counterparts at traditional public schools.»

Comparisons were made based on subject, grade level and subgroup and showed in 82 of 96 comparisons, the percentage of charter school students making learning gains was higher than the percentage of traditional public school students making learning gains.

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Students in the District's traditional public schools scored higher than ever on the city's math and reading tests this year, also posting the largest single - year gain since 2008, according to test results released Tuesday.