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://greatlakescenter.org/docs/Research/Miron_Charter_Achievement/Miron_Charter%20Achievement.pdf
Achievement in charter schools in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin has not been found to exceed the achievement levels found in traditional public schools, according to a new study funded by the Great Lakes Center for Education Research and Practice. The study compared school-based data of charters with demographically similar, traditional public schools over a five-year period and found that charter schools were not performing at levels that exceed traditional public schools. The authors did find that charter schools are making significant gains in achievement over time and that all of the states in the study had some very strong charters.
Date: 2007
Source: Great Lakes Center, Western Michigan University, Evaluation Center
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