Sentences with phrase «students in traditional public school knowing»

The Tricky Bit — How to Account for Selection Bias Now for the important question, in the context of these data and techniques, how did I compare students in choice schools to students in traditional public school knowing that that difference in decision might be because of some unobservable characteristic obscuring the true comparison between choice students and traditional public school students?

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And we know that, more often than not, the students attending traditional public schools in cities are in intensely segregated schools.

Here is what we know: students in urban areas do significantly better in school if they attend a charter schools than if they attend a traditional public school.

The only way to know with confidence whether charters cause better outcomes is to look at randomized control trials (RCTs) in which students are assigned by lottery to attending a charter school or a traditional public school.

Even if a charter or private school were no better than a traditional forced - choice public school, the fact that parents and students themselves choose the school may mean they perceive distinct advantages in it, real or not.

Known as the CREDO study, it evaluated student progress on math tests in half the nation's five thousand charter schools and concluded that 17 percent were superior to a matched traditional public school; 37 percent were worse than the public school; and the remaining 46 percent had academic gains no different from that of a similar public school.

At the transformation of traditional public school districts to non-traditional charter school districts in New Orleans, birthed a group of fearless student activists called the Carver Five known throughout the city as the C5!

In fact, many high - performing traditional public schools — particularly magnets and selective enrollments — enforce a no - excuses policy by screening the students who enter their school.

Traditional public schools intensify their improvement efforts in response to these new choices available for families, but are no longer burdened with the challenge of trying to be all things to all students.

We know this because of the more than 63,500 students attending F schools in traditional public school districts, three - quarters of those children — more than 49,000 students — are poor enough to receive free or reduced price lunches.

Second, beyond selection bias, we don't know if there are other factors that affect achievement that we are not accounting for that are systematically different between students in choice schools and students in traditional public schools.

However, students who attended public schools that were granted considerable autonomy but kept the union — known as «pilot» schools — performed no better than they would have had they remained in a traditional Boston public school.