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.crpe.org/cs/crpe/download/csr_files/pub_ncsrp_hfr08_dec08.pdf
This annual report published by the National Charter School Research Project offers new evidence and analysis about the state of the nation's public charter schools. In five essays, the report explores how well charters are doing, where they need to improve, and what can be learned from current research. One chapter finds that there is strong evidence that charter schools are outperforming other public schools in many ways, but warn that only about a third of all public charter studies can be trusted to be accurate. Another chapter finds that public charter schools are more likely than other public schools to focus their educational designs on specific missions and populations, adapt their school day and year to meet the needs of their students, customize
their programs to help struggling students, and bring college-prep courses to urban
students. But even within the charter sector, the researchers find great diversity in approach and specialization.
Date: 2008
Source: National Charter School Research Project
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