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, recently published by the RAND Corporation, Mathematica, and Florida State University in Tallahassee, finds that public charter schools may improve graduation rates. Examining Chicago's multi-grade public charter high schools (those that include grades 6-12, 7-12, or K-12), the study's authors find that public charter schools appear to produce substantial positive effects on ACT scores, probability of graduating, and probability of enrolling in college. The large positive results suggest promise for multi-grade public charter high schools (and perhaps public charter high schools more generally) and demonstrate that evaluations limited to test scores may fail to capture important benefits of public charter schools.
Date: 2008
Source: RAND Corporation
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