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May 07, 2008
New Report Shows More Good News for Charter Schools
Education Week is reporting that a new study (subscription required) found charter school students in Chicago had high school graduation rates 7 points above their public school counterparts and were 11 percent more likely to enroll in college. Those are quite impressive differences.
Education Week says the growth in charters in Chicago has been “rapid.” The city already has 28 such schools in the system and will add two more next year. Clearly, Chicago must be happy with their charters.
The report comes from some pretty high power research groups. RAND corporation, the Mathematica group in Princeton, NJ, and Florida State University. It is being praised for some unique new innovations that try to control for the possibility that charter school students have more motivation than public school students.
The Chicago samples also controlled for the problem issues of differing racial mixes and the accusation that charters skim the best students. Even after all those controls were applied, the charters came out on top.
I just downloaded the report, so you can read together with me by clicking here.
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Posted by Richard at May 7, 2008 08:50 PM
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