Indeed, our failure to find robust effects of the pilot schools (
particularly in middle school grades) should be a warning that additional flexibility for schools does not ensure results for kids.
Public charter participation rates, by comparison, show the share of students living within a public school boundary who attend a public charter school anywhere in the city, and are
highest in middle school grades.
«Intuitively, I had not expected this to be an important policy lever, but there are a lot of indicators that things are not going well for students
in the middle school grades in the United States,» says West, who serves as executive editor of Education Next.
That isn't necessarily bad for the students: A review by the State University of New York Charter Institute, which sponsored the UFT's charter application, found that the school had «poor» educational
outcomes in the middle school grades.
While waiting for the order, students must wear a RED polo shirt in elementary grades or a NAVY polo
shirt in the middle school grades along with KHAKI shorts / slacks / skorts.
Enrollment in public charter schools was
highest in middle school grades, at 52 percent, and lowest in high school grades where DCPS application high schools attracted 20 percent of all high school students.
We find some significant gaps between advantaged and disadvantaged students in the value added of the teachers to which they are assigned in these grades, although
gaps in middle school grades are sensitive to the specification of value added.
In the middle school grades, the focus of instruction is often on grammar.