A 2003 national report by the Brookings Institution shows that test
scores at charter schools are rising sharply and surpassing traditional schools.
Not exact matches
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The type of learning you're describing, with open classroom discussion, a lot of choice for students, inquiry - based learning, projects, it seems
at odds with the kind of call - and - response, very teacher - directed style that you see
at a lot of so - called «no excuses»
charter schools that produce high test
scores with disadvantaged populations.
At Success Academy, the
charter school network in New York City, current and former educators say the quest for high
scores drives some of them over the line.
After months of aggressive advocacy explicitly aimed
at protecting and growing the state's
charter sector, the group sent out a report detailing test
scores at some of New York City's worst district schools.
Randi Weingarten likes to brag a little about the reading and math test
scores posted this year
at two New York City
charter schools she...
We use common statistical procedures to estimate the effect on math and reading test
scores of each additional year of actual attendance
at a
charter school.
Our results show that each year of attendance
at an oversubscribed Boston
charter school increases the math test
scores of students in our sample by 13 percent of a standard deviation.
The schools that agreed to participate in the study included 22 open - enrollment district schools, five oversubscribed
charter schools, two exam schools to which students are admitted based on their grades and standardized test
scores, and three
charter schools that were not oversubscribed
at the time the 8th - grade students in our study were admitted.
«Students attending Brighter Choice
Charter School
score far below average
at the beginning of kindergarten, confirming their
at - risk status,» he says.
• Each year of attendance
at an oversubscribed
charter school increased the math test
scores of students in the sample by 13 percent of a standard deviation, a roughly 50 percent increase over the progress typical students make in a school year, but had no impact on their fluid cognitive skills.
Utah's
charter law received one of the lowest NACSA
scores in the country,
at just 8 points.
States with higher - than - expected SAT
scores were less likely to pass
charter school legislation; tended to adopt such legislation later, if
at all; and passed weaker laws.
It may be that SAT
scores, as a very public measure of school performance, lead to agitation for
charter laws, but that
charters themselves are more likely to target students
at risk of dropping out, and therefore participation is more closely associated with dropout rates.
Granted, the fabulous standardized test
scores of those high - performing
charter networks who take on this special ed challenge may not be as uniformly high —
at least in the short term, but when one in every twenty public school students now attends a
charter, the movement is mature and entrenched enough to move to the next stage of reform for both moral and political reasons.
A 2015 study by Stanford University's Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) found Newark
charter schools outperformed traditional district schools: 77 percent of Newark's
charters were more effective
at raising test
scores in reading, and 69 percent were more effective
at raising
scores in math.
Thirty - seven percent of the students for whom we observe test -
score gains
at least once in both sectors attended a traditional public school after they were in a
charter school, while the same is true of only 30 percent of all students in
charter schools.
In the end, our analysis of
charter school effectiveness is based on the experiences of only those students for whom we observe annual gains (whether positive or negative) in test
scores at least once in a
charter school and
at least once in a traditional public school.
Using 2015 test -
score data and comparing schools with similar percentages of low - income kids,
charters outperform DPS - operated schools
at the middle and high school level but not
at the elementary level, where there are only 10
charters.
Two of its Brooklyn schools have posted math
scores that were the best in the state, Excellence Boys
Charter School (6th grade) and Kings Collegiate
Charter School (7th grade); ELA test
scores of 8th graders
at True North Rochester Preparatory
Charter School in Rochester placed that school
at number 6 out of 1,450 schools tested.
A study of test
scores from 2010 through 2014, by economists
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Duke University, found that Denver's
charters produced «remarkably large gains in math,» large gains in writing, and smaller but statistically significant gains in reading, compared to DPS - operated schools.
A study released earlier this month by Mathematica finds that students attending
charter high schools in Florida
scored lower on achievement tests than students in traditional public schools, but years later, the
charter students were more likely to have attended
at least two years of college and also had higher earnings.
Since returning from teaching
at Harvard University to start a
charter school in his hometown, Lawrence P. Hernandez has become well - known for two things: coaxing top - flight test
scores from his mostly low - income and Latino students, and fighting like a pit bull for the money to do it.
This is the genius of effective
charter school authorizers that look
at a school's big picture as well as its
scores.
At BASIS, teachers are first reviewed for their content knowledge; PhDs are not uncommon (see «High Scores at BASIS Charter Schools,» features, Winter 2014
At BASIS, teachers are first reviewed for their content knowledge; PhDs are not uncommon (see «High
Scores at BASIS Charter Schools,» features, Winter 2014
at BASIS
Charter Schools,» features, Winter 2014).
Everything was in play all
at once:
charter caps, raising cut
scores, Common Core, new curriculum and shifts in pedagogy, and tough new teacher accountability measures.
June Kronholz wrote about «High
Scores at BASIS
Charter Schools» in the Winter 2014 issue of Education Next.
In «High
Scores at BASIS
Charter Schools,» June Kronholz wrote about two BASIS charter schools in A
Charter Schools,» June Kronholz wrote about two BASIS
charter schools in A
charter schools in Arizona.
In «High
Scores at BASIS
Charter Schools,» June Kronholz wrote about two BASIS charter schools in Arizona, open - admission public schools that offer a challenging curriculum to all st
Charter Schools,» June Kronholz wrote about two BASIS
charter schools in Arizona, open - admission public schools that offer a challenging curriculum to all st
charter schools in Arizona, open - admission public schools that offer a challenging curriculum to all students.
Students
at the same Boston
charter high schools that have boosted test
scores are also more likely to take and pass Advanced Placement courses and to enroll in a four - year rather than a two - year college.
Far more important, NACSA's ratings did clearly predict schools» chances of being renewed
at the end of their first
charter term — and through a renewal process that relies on Louisiana's test - based School Performance
Score (SPS) measure.
So, he asks «whether regulators are any good
at identifying which schools will contribute to test
score gains» and then says this: «The bottom line is that none of the factors used by authorizers to open or renew
charter schools in New Orleans were predictive of how much test
score growth these schools could produce later on.»
As he speculates in «Injecting
Charter School Best Practices Into Traditional Public Schools: Evidence from Field Experiments,»» [A] leading theory posits that reading
scores are influenced by the language spoken when students are outside of the classroom... [The researchers] argue that if students speak non-standard English
at home and in their communities, increasing reading
scores might be especially difficult.
We don't find any evidence that
charters have much of an impact on reading
scores at any grade level.
But other parents have no way to know that; application forms
at that school - and
scores of other
charter schools around the country - still indicate that a Social Security number is required.
All three of the truly spectacular
scores (Higley, Chandler and Phoenix Elementary combos
at 95, 95 and 99th percentile respectively) came from situations where both the district and
charter sectors grew rapidly.
Urban
charter schools have an incredible track record of increasing student achievement, while increasing school funding by as much as 10 % yields very modest test
score effects, and these effects come
at a very high cost.
For math, 24 percent of
charter students with disabilities
scored at proficient levels, as did 12 percent of public - school kids.
However, the achievement gains for
charter elementary schools are challenging to estimate and remain unclear because elementary students typically have no baseline test
scores at the time they enter kindergarten.
At the middle school level, pilot school students have somewhat lower baseline scores than students at traditional schools, while the baseline scores of charter students are higher than those of students in traditional BPS school
At the middle school level, pilot school students have somewhat lower baseline
scores than students
at traditional schools, while the baseline scores of charter students are higher than those of students in traditional BPS school
at traditional schools, while the baseline
scores of
charter students are higher than those of students in traditional BPS schools.
Martin West, a professor of education
at Harvard, states that «weaker
scores among voucher recipients may be a result of the fact that public school performance is improving, particularly in the District, where math and reading
scores at traditional public and public
charter schools have increased quickly over the past decade.»
Public schools, given the right incentives and resources, can be as effective
at innovating to raise test
scores as
charters, as two recent studies of Massachusetts» turnaround schools show.
Research by Will Dobbie and Roland Fryer demonstrates that the impact of attending an HCZ
charter middle school on students» test
scores is comparable to the impressive effects seen
at high - performing
charter schools such as the Knowledge Is Power Program (known as KIPP schools).
Again however take a look
at Louisiana's
charter sector - again low
scores and low gains.
To assess the spillover effect of
charter schools on students
at district schools, I analyze how individual students» test
scores, attendance, and grade progression change in response to exposure to a
charter school.
At the high school level,
charter students showed stronger performance
scores in English Language Arts, math, writing topic development, and writing competition.
At a gardenless
charter school called Cal Prep, where 92 percent of the students are black or Latino, where the focus is on academic achievement, and where test
scores have been rising steadily.»
Such provisions may have the most impact on single - site, community - focused
charters, which might be concentrating on priorities other than standardized test
scores and whose test results might therefore lag,
at least in the first few years of operation.
That is,
chartering is a movement that began with the aspiration of starting many kinds of schools, but it may have morphed into one that is only adept
at starting one type of school: a highly structured school that is run by a CMO or an EMO and whose goal is to close achievement gaps for low - income kids of color while producing exceptional test
scores.
Students who won lottery spots in
charter schools
scored at levels closer to wealthier suburban students, a new study has found.