http://www.nysun.com/article/54397
In a meta-study of 21 recent studies, a group of university researchers has found that charters instill "civic values" at least as well as traditional public schools and that students at "schools of choice," which include private, parochial, and charter schools, are more tolerant of people who are different from themselves than students at traditional public schools. "There is a strong expectation or assumption that (traditional) public schools will outperform private and charter schools in instilling civic values because they're government run," said University of Arkansas professor Patrick Wolf. Instead, he said, this new study "suggests that school choice programs are performing as well as traditional public schools or in many cases outperforming them."
Source: New York Sun
Date: 05/14/2007
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