Not exact matches
A 2006 study by the Department of Education found that charter
school fourth graders had lower
scores in reading and math on the National Assessment of Education Progress, a federal achievement test,
than their counterparts in
regular public schools.
ONE OF THE long - standing misperceptions about charter
schools is that they cherry - pick the better students from an area, resulting in higher test
scores than in comparable
regular public schools...
On average, a new federal study shows, charter
schools are no better and in some cases worse
than regular public schools, but KIPP's test
scores show it to be a glaring exception to that general rule.
The study, by Christopher Lubianski and Sarah Theule Lubianski of the University of Illinois, compared fourth - and eighth - grade math
scores of more
than 340,000 students in 13,000
regular public, charter and private
schools on the 2003 National Assessment of Educational Progress.
«The first national comparison of test
scores among children in charter
schools and
regular public schools shows charter
school students often doing worse
than comparable students in
regular public schools,» read the opening sentence.
The first national comparison of test
scores among children in charter
schools and
regular public schools shows charter
school students often doing worse
than comparable students in
regular public schools...