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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http://www.nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2004077
The federal government's annual "Condition of Education" summarizes important developments and trends in public and private education. The 2004 edition includes 38 indicators in six main areas: (1) enrollment trends and student characteristics; (2) student achievement and the longer-term, enduring effects of education; (3) student effort and rates of progress through the educational system among different population groups; (4) contexts of elementary and secondary education in terms of courses taken, teacher characteristics, and other factors; (5) contexts of postsecondary education; and (6) societal support for learning, including parental and community support for learning, and public and private financial support of education at all levels.
Date: 2004
Source: National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
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