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Charters as a diverse sector.(correspondence)(Letter to the editor)
Charter schools are too often treated as a monolithic reform and too rarely treated as a diverse sector. When we think of charter schools as a reform, we tend to either praise or criticize, depending on the particular snapshot of charter schools we're discussing. When we think of them as a sector, we understand that charter schools mirror other sectors--private schools and traditional publics--in their range of quality and outcomes. And we can learn from their successes and failures.
Viewed from this sector perspective, your two charter school articles ("Brand-Name Charters," features, and "New York City Charter Schools," research, Summer 2008) offer valuable contributions. From a reform perspective? Not so much.
The article about franchise charter schools describes a vibrant subsector. It explores the problem of growing beyond a small number of successful schools while simultaneously addressing quality control. Where the article runs into trouble is when it tells readers, with no empirical backing, that the charter movement began "with tremendous potential for narrowing the achievement gap," suggesting that there are "too few" charter schools to fulfill that promise. In truth, research has shown charter performance to be similar, on average, to the performance of traditional ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Charters as a diverse sector.(correspondence)(Letter to the editor)