Charter schools scored four points below the norm but saw minimally better
growth than traditional schools: two points.
While the experimental public schools showed slightly higher levels of academic
growth than traditional schools overall, the number of students performing at grade level was lower than the state average.
Not exact matches
In math, charter
school students had «stronger
growth»
than traditional public
school students in 12 states, and weaker
growth in 13 states.
Despite serving a more advantaged student population
than traditional public
schools in LAUSD, charter effects on student test score
growth were unimpressive.
This
growth of charter
schools has occurred during a period when charter public
schools have been held more accountable
than traditional public
schools and have strengthened their performance, especially with historically underserved students.
In Boston, the average yearly academic
growth for charter
school students was more
than four times that of their
traditional school peers in reading.
It's an ongoing process because teachers are responsible every year for student
growth (as are the
schools themselves, which can be closed far more quickly
than traditional schools) and a teacher's renewal is dependent on current effectiveness.
Charters students also demonstrated much less
growth in advanced scores of 5th graders
than all other groups of students, including those in
traditional urban public
schools.
Some districts are more rigorous in their charter applications and other districts like Denver are very open, so the
growth in Denver, especially in looking at the turnaround and transformation are strongly suggested that they turn into charter
schools rather
than in other districts that we looked at in Pueblo and in Center and in Sheridan where they're really putting all their efforts into making the
traditional school successful rather
than turning it into another model..
In the most comprehensive examination to date of online charters, CREDO found that more
than two - thirds of online charter
schools had academic
growth that was worse
than traditional schools.
The most recent charter
school study, from Stanford University's Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO), finds that academic
growth among Boston charter
school students is more
than four times that of their
traditional public
school peers in English and more
than six times greater in math.
This
growth in support has occurred during a period when charter
schools have been held more accountable
than traditional public
schools and have strengthened their performance, especially with historically underserved students.