Charter schools in eight states: effects on achievement, attainment, integration, and competition / Ron Zimmer [et al.]. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references.
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In T able 3. Student Achieve ment in Char ter Sch ools Staying in one sch ool may be an indication of family. Trad itional Public Schools. Obser ved Switchi ng. Betwee n TPSs an d. Average Annual G ain Advant age for. Students Alwa ys in Charter Schools. Versus Stude nts Who Transfer. Tex a s In a diverse range of countries, including Sweden, England and the US, there has been an increase in the role played by private providers in the delivery of compul- sory education e.
Global Change and National Challenges. Research on the effects of charter school maturation indicates that individual schools produce relatively low levels of student achievement during early years of existence, but steadily improve over time Zimmer et al. In case studies, failure rates of individual charter schools have been linked to student perfor- mance as measured by standardized test scores, managerial capacities of the staff, and the level of community-based Table 1. From the Inside Flap This book examines charter schools in eight states, assessing student characteristics; their effectiveness in raising student achievement, graduation, and college entry; and their competitive effects on achievement in traditional public schools.
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Charter Schools in Eight States: Effects on Achievement, Attainment, Integration, and Competition
Please try again later. This book presents scientific findings from a major study of charter schools in eight states.
Since the opening of the first U. Now, with over a million students attending charter schools in 40 states and the District of Columbia, sufficient data have been collected to begin to address many of the concerns raised by charter school detractors. The questions considered in the study described in this book were: What are the characteristics of students transferring to charter schools? What effect do charter schools have on test-score gains for students who transfer between traditional public schools TPSs and charter schools?
What is the effect of attending a charter school on the probability of graduating and of entering college? What effect does the introduction of charter schools have on test scores of students in nearby TPSs? The data for the study came from: The authors offer the following key findings from their research. There is no evidence that charter schools are systematically attracting above-average students.
Transfers to charter schools do not involve dramatic shifts in the sorting of students by race in any of the sites included in the study.
Effects on Achievement, Attainment, Integration, and Competition. Although charter schools are growing in number, debate continues about whether they provide a better education than traditional public schools. The report examines charter schools in Chicago, Denver, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, San Diego, and the states of Florida, Ohio, and Texas, using longitudinal student-level data to examine issues across multiple communities and varied charter laws.
Overall, there is little evidence that charter schools, on average, are producing test-score impacts that are substantially better or worse than those of conventional public schools, but favorable high school graduation and college-entry results suggest the possibility of long-term benefits. The authors also note that much more is yet to be learned, particularly about the performance of charter elementary schools.
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Sorry, there is no online preview for this file type. The findings reported here indicate that it is unlikely that charter schools-a prominent effort to increase school choice, especially for students from disadvantaged backgrounds-are making the problem worse. Charter schools, parent choice, and segregation: A longitudinal study of the growth of charters and changing enrollment patterns in five school districts over 26 years. However, a more promising finding pertinent to this study's focus was that students who attended a charter high school were more likely to graduate and enroll in college when compared to their counterparts at traditional public schools.
In three of the states, impacts were substantially more positive in the third year than in the first year, while in the other states there were not substantial differences in the schools' impacts between their first and third years.
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Searching for policies and practices that make charter schools successful. Nov J Sch Choice. A RAND report on charter schools in eight states, including Texas, found that charter schools' students 'academic performance faired compared to TPS' student's performance Zimmer et al. Consequences of Educator Stress on Turnover: The Case of Charter Schools. In the aforementioned study, Frankenberg and colleagues found that Black students were more segregated in charters than district-run schools in over three fourths of the states with charters, and Latinos were more segregated in over half of the states.