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Do charter schools work?(Indicators)(Brief Article)
Teachers' unions have recently been circulating studies showing only very modest achievement gains at charter schools. These studies have two unacknowledged problems, however. They are built on very incomplete selections of charter school results. And they compare charter schools to all U.S. schools--rather than to the inner-city public schools where most of the students now enrolled in charter schools would otherwise be.
A careful study by Harvard professor Caroline Hoxby avoids those pitfalls and gives a clearer picture. Hoxby has collected data that includes fully 99 percent of all elementary students attending U.S. charter schools. And she compares their results to outcomes at the nearby neighborhood schools where most of these students would be sitting if their charter school did not exist.
Her demographically adjusted results: Students at charter schools are 5.2 percent more proficient in reading, and 3.2 percent more ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Do charter schools work?(Indicators)(Brief Article)