A large - scale government - financed study has concluded that
students in regular public schools do as well or significantly better in math than comparable students in private schools.
We can address this issue by comparing the prior test scores of charter school applicants in our data with the test scores
of students in regular public schools in their neighborhoods (within three miles).
Even when researchers can evaluate charter schools that are large enough to contribute useful results to a study, old enough to have a track record, and representative of a substantial share of all charter schools, they face a daunting analytical challenge:
finding students in the regular public schools who are truly comparable to the charter school students.
«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.
A California State University, Los Angeles, study of California charters, released in March 2002, found that their test - score gains outpaced those
of students in regular public schools.
Students in charter schools in Massachusetts outperformed their regular public school counterparts in reading and math in the state, and students in charter schools in Boston experienced significantly higher learning gains in reading and math than
students in regular public schools in the city, says a new study released by Stanford University's Center for Research on Education Outcomes, or CREDO...
First: The Times claims that the NAEP - based comparison «shows charter school students often doing worse than comparable
students in regular public schools.»
Otherwise,
students in regular public schools are effectively provided with less education funding than those in charter schools.»
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...
That's despite an American Federation of Teachers study released last month that found charter school students nationwide performed significantly worse than
students in regular public schools.