Sentences with phrase «national charter researchers»

To explore how charters can use this flexibility to create different teacher retirement plans, economist and pension expert Michael Podgursky and national charter researchers Susan Aud Pendergrass and Kevin Hesla studied retirement plans at charter schools across five states: Arizona, California, Florida, Louisiana, and Michigan.

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Nearly four years after a front - page story in The New York Times sparked a fierce debate by suggesting that charter school students nationally were lagging academically behind their peers in regular public schools, the national testing program that informed the controversy has generated far more data for researchers and advocates to scrutinize.

California charter schools outperform traditional public schools in reading but significantly lag in math, according to a national study released Monday by researchers at Stanford University.

In a national study of charter schools, researchers noted a strong link between the ability of charter school leaders to «organize a school to be excellent on Day One» and the long - term academic success of the school (Peltason & Raymond, 2013).

As the lead researchers on some of the most comprehensive (and controversial) national studies of charter schools, she and her colleagues have found that while charter schools seem to be doing slightly better than traditional public schools in reading and about the same in math, great variation exists within these results (CREDO, 2013).

The results, based on the 2003 National Assessment of Educational Progress, commonly known as the nation's report card, were unearthed from online data by researchers at the American Federation of Teachers — which has historically supported charter schools but has produced research in recent years raising doubts about the expansion of charter schools — who provided them to The New York Times.

Critics of policies pushed by the Obama administration and many state policymakers — such as adopting the Common Core, revamping teacher evaluation and expanding charter schools — may seize on the latest NAEP results, but researchers warn against using national test scores to judge specific policies, a practice sometimes called «misNAEPery.»