Second: one - time «snapshot» data of a single cohort of kids, which is all that NAEP can supply the first time around, tell you nothing
about the
academic achievement of children before they entered their charter schools — and
just about everyone knows that a big fraction of the youngsters enrolling in charters were already behind the education eight - ball as a result of dismal performance in previous schools.
«I'm not talking
about just supporting
academic achievement but looking at their well - being — cognitive, social, emotional, physical and as much as you can do that in the elementary and secondary, it also opens opportunities for them in post-secondary.»