The Gleason study found, on average, that there was no statistically
significant impact of charter schools on student achievement.
Not exact matches
Given the
impact of educational attainment on a variety
of economic and social outcomes, a positive result could have
significant implications for the value
of school - choice programs that include
charter high
schools.
Although we knew from the outset that
charter schools would serve only a relatively small part
of our overall population — probably less than 10 percent — we expected they would have a
significant impact nonetheless.
While the number
of observations is too small to yield statistically
significant evidence that
charters are helping the district
schools, they offer no help for the claim that they are having a negative
impact.
The problem is that often the forest gets lost because the leaves aren't counted: the authors describe a CREDO report's conclusions on the cumulative advantage
of urban
charter schools for poor African American students but give the reader no sense
of how trustworthy they deem the report to be nor how
significant the purported
charter -
school impact is — compared, for example, to results
of any other major
school - reform strategy.
Those new options have made a
significant impact on Connecticut's achievement gap — you can not argue against the fact that
charter schools have changed the lives
of inner - city children
of color who may not have otherwise had success in education.
The paper, published in Education Finance and Policy, details the achievement
impacts of 41 KIPP
charter middle
schools nationwide and reports consistently positive and statistically
significant test - score effects in reading, math, science, and social studies.
The two
charter school founders realized that to have
significant impact in a community, a cluster
of charter schools needed to be created within each community, rather than just one or two.
By the third year
of attendance, there is no
significant impact from
charter school attendance on either reading or math.
Fordham leadership and board recognize that the organization can have a positive and
significant impact via the authorizing work, and they have supported that growth, due mainly to the replication and expansion
of existing, high - quality
charter school models.
Charter schools also had significant positive effects on the reading scores of students with special needs.13 These results are supported by additional findings that charter schools have the most positive impacts on black and Hispanic students, and the least positive impacts on white students.14 In fact, research has found some evidence of negative impacts on white students and non-poor Hispanic students in both math and reading compared to their peers in traditional public school
Charter schools also had
significant positive effects on the reading scores
of students with special needs.13 These results are supported by additional findings that
charter schools have the most positive impacts on black and Hispanic students, and the least positive impacts on white students.14 In fact, research has found some evidence of negative impacts on white students and non-poor Hispanic students in both math and reading compared to their peers in traditional public school
charter schools have the most positive
impacts on black and Hispanic students, and the least positive
impacts on white students.14 In fact, research has found some evidence
of negative
impacts on white students and non-poor Hispanic students in both math and reading compared to their peers in traditional public
schools.13 16