Sentences with phrase «study applied to a charter school»

All of the students in our study applied to a charter school, so our results pertain to students who want to attend charter schools.

Not exact matches

However, the results of such experimental studies apply only to the programs offered by and the type of students who apply to the specific oversubscribed charter schools evaluated.

The study, conducted by Stanford University researcher Caroline M. Hoxby and her co-authors Sonali Mararka and Jenny Kang, is based on eight years of data for students applying to the city's growing number of charter schools.

Interestingly, save for Ohio's automatic closure law that was applied to a handful of charters, state policy did not directly shutter the schools in this study.

A new study by one of us (Elizabeth Setren) follows students participating in special education at the time they apply to charter elementary, middle, or high schools in Boston.

While parents may confer with a child - study team when considering enrolling in a charter school, the choice of whether or not to apply to enroll is the parents» alone, not a matter delegated to the child - study team.

Students who did not apply to any of the charter schools included in the lottery study do not fall into any charter risk set and are therefore omitted.

According to a study of lottery data, students who apply to charter schools, on average, scored higher in the previous year than the students who didn't submit an application.

Studies comparing student achievement in charter schools with that in regular public schools are difficult to do credibly, however, because students who apply and their families are presumably more motivated to succeed in school than those who remain in regular schools.

An IES study controlled for family motivation by comparing students admitted to charter schools by random lottery with students who applied but were not admitted.

The methodology helps mitigate the selection issue present in the CREDO study, since the student population they are comparing, the winners and losers, both have the unobservable characteristics that lead to a family applying to a charter school.