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Chartering Success
February 11, 2010 by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) at 07:24 AM
Most charter school studies focus on student test scores, but here’s a new study that investigates what happens to charter school students later on. Controlling for students’ background, the researchers looked at students who had attended a charter school in grade 8 in Chicago and Florida, and then compared the outcomes of those students who went on to attend charter high schools with the outcomes of the students who went on to attend conventional high schools. It turns out that attending a charter high school was associated with a much greater likelihood of graduating from high school and attending a post-secondary institution.
The articles are piling up in the USA about the resegregtion of education through charters. The black charters are much “blacker” than public schools and the white charters are much whiter than white majority schools.
Charters “cream” for their students in the first place and then take credit later.
When JK Galbraith was asked if the Harvard School of Business was the best in the country he said, “it is very good but if you only allow the best to attend it is much easier to say you are the best 3 years later.”