Students in
urban charter schools gained an additional 40 days in math and 28 days in reading per year compared to their district school peers.
Nationally, the CREDO study found that students in
urban charter schools gained the equivalent of 40 additional days of learning in math and 28 additional days in reading.
According to a 2015 study by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) at Stanford University, students enrolled in
urban charter schools gained 40 additional days of learning in math per year and 28 additional days in reading compared to students in district schools.
Not exact matches
Now compare this to CREDO's
urban charter school study, which found that
urban students enrolled in
charter schools gained.07 standard deviations relative to their peers in district
schools in one year.
The effects of
charter schools in
urban populations are of special interest because any
gains in this context might help reduce the black - white achievement gap.
This has been particularly helpful for evaluating the effectiveness of
charter schools, a controversial education reform with a mixed record overall but one that shows remarkably large
gains for disadvantaged students in
urban areas.
Boston's
Charter Schools Show Significant Gains — Boston charter school students outperformed their counterparts at traditional public schools and at charter schools in other urban areas by a striking margin over a recent six - year span, a Stanford University study
Charter Schools Show Significant Gains — Boston charter school students outperformed their counterparts at traditional public schools and at charter schools in other urban areas by a striking margin over a recent six - year span, a Stanford University study
Schools Show Significant
Gains — Boston
charter school students outperformed their counterparts at traditional public schools and at charter schools in other urban areas by a striking margin over a recent six - year span, a Stanford University study
charter school students outperformed their counterparts at traditional public
schools and at charter schools in other urban areas by a striking margin over a recent six - year span, a Stanford University study
schools and at
charter schools in other urban areas by a striking margin over a recent six - year span, a Stanford University study
charter schools in other urban areas by a striking margin over a recent six - year span, a Stanford University study
schools in other
urban areas by a striking margin over a recent six - year span, a Stanford University study found.
Some of the most dramatic
gains in
urban education have come from
school districts using a «portfolio strategy»: negotiating performance agreements with some mix of traditional,
charter and hybrid public
schools, allowing them great autonomy, letting them handcraft their
schools to fit the needs of their students, giving parents their choice of
schools, replicating successful
schools and replacing failing
schools.
Across California, and all
urban regions nationwide, African American students
gain more days in reading and math at
charter public
schools, which contributes to strong academic results.
Using publicly available data from the California Department of Education (CDE), the results show that
charter schools are making significant
gains in narrowing the achievement gap, with African American students consistently earning higher Academic Performance Index (API) scores and proficiency rates statewide in many
urban districts and across subjects.
These ideas — choice,
charter schools, vouchers — have all
gained a foothold to one degree or another in struggling
urban districts across the country, including in DeVos» own home turf of Detroit, where more than half of public
school students now attend
charter schools.
The EPIC Knowledge System is a powerful web - based professional development resource documenting the real - life practices of
urban district and
charter schools driving significant achievement
gains.
Overall, students enrolled in
urban public
charter schools gained 40 additional days of learning in math and 28 additional days in reading compared to their traditional public
school peers.
While it does already show favoritism to
urban charter schools, not non-
urban, from a purely performance - based point of view, Massachusetts» balance still is off; if the state designed the policy exclusively to maximize academic
gains, it would raise the cap in
urban areas and lower the cap in non-
urban areas.