Twelve studies find that overall gains in charter schools are larger than other public schools; four find charter schools’ gains higher in certain significant categories of schools; six find comparable gains; and, four find that charter schools’ overall gains lagged behind traditional schools.
Source: Charter School Achievement: What We Know, July 2005 Update
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This study of performance in America's public schools found that students in charter schools are scoring below students in public schools in basic reading and math skills. After reviewing the 1999-2000 reading and math achievement test scores for 376 charter schools in 10 states, the author concluded that charter school students were anywhere from a half of a year to a full year behind public school students. The study found that 59 percent of students at traditional public schools scored better than charter school students during the period studied. Urban charter school schools tended to score higher than suburban or rural charters and larger charter schools scored higher than smaller ones. The author did note that a school's performance was likely to increase significantly after the second year of operation and that poor performance could be attributed, in part, to the trend of charter schools serving a high proportion of low-achieving students. Two notes of exception to Loveless' general findings: eleven charter schools in Pennsylvania performed slightly above average and Colorado's charters had significantly above average scores.
Date: 2002
Source: Brookings Institution
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