Sentences with phrase «similar racial composition»

«Compared to students in the nearest regular public school with a similar racial composition, charter students are 5 percent more likely to be proficient in reading and 3 percent more likely to be proficient in math.

Those sentiments were captured in another study by Harvard economics professor Caroline M. Hoxby, who compared the math and reading proficiency of almost all the nation's charter school students to the test results of those at their nearest public school with similar racial composition.

Hoxby quickly gathered data, and just a month after the AFT study grabbed headlines, her study, A Straightforward Comparison of Charter Schools and Regular Public Schools in the United States, is making news with findings showing that, on average, students in charter schools are 5 percent more likely to be proficient in reading and 3 percent more likely to be proficient in math than students at the closest public schools with similar racial composition.

The paper demonstrates this point by showing that in the aggregate, a comparison of racial composition of sending and receiving schools shows no large differences — it appears that students are switching to schools of similar racial composition.

However, a RAND study found that, in most states, students tend to transfer between traditional public and charter schools with similar racial compositions.

Not exact matches

In the end, as RAND tells us, students who move into charter schools generally choose schools with racial compositions similar to those of the traditional public schools they exited.

Aside from Georgia (which has only three charter schools), the average racial composition of charter schools in the other states is similar to their statewide averages.

The racial composition of our final analysis sample is similar to that of all voucher users.

The racial and ethnic composition of the student bodies attending pilot elementary and middle schools is similar to that at traditional BPS schools: around 45 % black and 30 % Hispanic.

Similarly, when the researchers looked at whether transfers to charter schools affected the distribution of students by race or ethnicity, they found that, in most sites, the racial composition of the charter school entered by a transferring student was similar to that of the traditional public school that he or she had left.

Clearly, the takeaway message from the RAND study — as the authors explicitly state — is that students who transfer into charters in these cities attend schools with racial compositions that are similar to the TPS attended in the prior year.