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.bsu.edu/teachers/media/pdf/report2007-1.pdf
This report from the Office of Charter School Research at Ball State University, an Indiana charter school sponsor, examines the impact of the length of charter school attendance on charter school performance. The authors find that students who have attended charter schools for three years are more likely to meet expected growth benchmarks than those who are newer to charter schools. Students who attend charter schools for longer periods of time are more likely to perform at levels closer to their national peers. In addition, they found that minority students who have attended charter schools for three years achieve at a higher level than those who are new to the school and the achievement gap between minority students and Caucasian students is eliminated in the area of Mathematics. In Language Arts, achievement seems to increase with longevity in a charter school for both minority and Caucasian students.
Date: 2007
Source: Office of Charter School Research, Ball State University
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