Download or read book Research Comparing Charter Schools and Traditional Public Schools Literature Review written by Christie Blazer and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 2008-09 school year, over 5,000 charter schools operated in 40 states and Washington, D.C. and were attended by over 1.5 million students, or about three percent of the nation's public school students. Although the first U.S. charter schools opened in 1992, debate continues over whether they provide students with a better education than traditional public schools. This Literature Review summarizes studies that compared the achievement of students attending charter and traditional public schools and found mixed results. Most studies have found that charter schools produce achievement gains that are about the same or lower than those found in traditional public schools, although a few studies have concluded that charter schools have a positive effect on student achievement. These inconsistent findings have led some researchers to conclude that the rapid growth of the charter school movement has significantly outpaced the evidence supporting its impact on student achievement. Because there is such wide variation from state to state in charter schools' mission, funding, student populations, size, grade level coverage, and independence from regulations and teacher contracts, there may never be a single definitive study that determines if charter or traditional public schools provide students with better learning opportunities. In addition to reviewing studies conducted on overall charter school performance, this report summarizes research that examined the following issues: student achievement at new versus more established charter schools; student achievement at conversion versus start-up charter schools; student mobility at charter schools; charter school teacher attrition rates and qualifications; demographic characteristics of students attending charter schools; extent of segregation in charter schools; and the impact of charter school competition on the achievement of students remaining in traditional public schools. Finally, information on charter schools operating within the state of Florida and in Miami-Dade County is provided. (Contains 4 tables.).
Download or read book Research Comparing Charter Schools and Traditional Public Schools Information Capsule written by Christie Blazer and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 2008-09 school year, over 5,000 charter schools operated in 40 states and Washington, D.C. and were attended by over 1.5 million students, or about three percent of the nation's public school students. Although the first U.S. charter schools opened in 1992, debate continues over whether they provide students with a better education than traditional public schools. This Information Capsule reviews studies that compared the achievement of students attending charter and traditional public schools and found mixed results. Most studies have found that charter schools produce achievement gains that are about the same or lower than those found in traditional public schools, although a few studies have concluded that charter schools have a positive effect on student achievement. These inconsistent findings have led some researchers to conclude that the rapid growth of the charter school movement has significantly outpaced the evidence supporting its impact on student achievement. Because there is such wide variation from state to state in charter schools' mission, funding, student populations, size, grade level coverage, and independence from regulations and teacher contracts, there may never be a single definitive study that determines if charter or traditional public schools provide students with better learning opportunities. This Information Capsule also reviews research comparing the qualifications of teachers at charter schools and traditional public schools and student segregation in charter schools. Most studies have found that charter school teachers have less teaching experience than teachers at traditional public schools. In addition, charter schools appear to intensify racial and economic segregation. Finally, information on charter schools operating within the state of Florida and in Miami-Dade County is provided. A more comprehensive Literature Review on charter school research is available at Research Services' Web site (http://drs.dadeschools.net). The Literature Review also summarizes research conducted in the following areas: student achievement at new versus more established charter schools; student achievement at conversion versus start-up charter schools; student mobility at charter schools; charter school teacher attrition rates; demographic characteristics of students attending charter schools; and the impact of charter school competition on the achievement of students remaining in traditional public schools. (Contains 4 tables.).
Download or read book Academic Achievement of Georgia Charter Schools Compared to Traditional Public Schools written by Tahereh Seyedbagheri and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study evaluates the academic success of charter schools compared to the academic achievement of traditional public schools in the state of Georgia. The study introduces the history of charter schools in America and their impact on the American public education system in the years since the first charter school was launched in Minnesota in 1992. A detailed literature review contextualizes the debate over charter schools and their performance as compared to traditional public schools. The study conducts an evaluation utilizing the Framework for Academic Quality which is a tool specifically designed by the National Consensus panel on Charter School Academic Quality to evaluate and assess the performance of charter schools. The study addresses six research questions and adopts an ex post facto research design to conduct quantitative analysis. The collected data is analyzed and compared using a causal-comparative approach. For this study, data were collected from the Georgia Achievement test scores documented by the Georgia Department of Education. The data reported on the passing rates of Criterion Referenced Competency Tests (CRCT) reading and math tests among 3rd and 5th graders during the study period did not seem to provide sufficient evidence to suggest any statistically significant difference between the academic performances of charter and public schools.
Download or read book Charter School Outcomes written by Mark Berends and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sponsored by the National Center on School Choice, a research consortium headed by Vanderbilt University, this volume examines the growth and outcomes of the charter school movement. Starting in 1992-93 when the nation’s first charter school was opened in Minneapolis, the movement has now spread to 40 states and the District of Columbia and by 2005-06 enrolled 1,040,536 students in 3,613 charter schools. The purpose of this volume is to help monitor this fast-growing movement by compiling, organizing and making available some of the most rigorous and policy-relevant research on K-12 charter schools. Key features of this important new book include: Expertise – The National Center on School Choice includes internationally known scholars from the following institutions: Harvard University, Brown University, Stanford University, Brookings Institution, National Bureau of Economic Research and Northwest Evaluation Association. Cross-Disciplinary – The volume brings together material from related disciplines and methodologies that are associated with the individual and systemic effects of charter schools. Coherent Structure – Each section begins with a lengthy introduction that summarizes the themes and major findings of that section. A summarizing chapter by Mark Schneider, the Commissioner of the National Center on Educational Statistics, concludes the book. This volume is appropriate for researchers, instructors and graduate students in education policy programs and in political science and economics, as well as in-service administrators, policy makers, and providers.
Download or read book Choices and Challenges written by Priscilla Wohlstetter and published by Harvard Education Press. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As charter schools enter their third decade, research in this key sector remains overwhelmingly contradictory and confused. Many studies are narrowly focused; some do not meet the standards for high-quality academic research. In this definitive work, Wohlstetter and her colleagues isolate and distill the high-quality research on charter schools to identify the contextual and operational factors that influence these schools’ performances. The authors examine the track record of the charter sector in light of the wide range of goals set for these schools in state authorizing legislation—at the classroom level, the level of the school community, and system-wide. In particular, they show how the evolution of the charter movement has shaped research questions and findings. By highlighting what we know about the conditions for success in charter schools, the authors make a significant contribution to current debates in policy and practice, both within the charter sector and in the larger landscape of public education.
Download or read book Taking Measure of Charter Schools written by Julian R. Betts and published by R&L Education. This book was released on 2010-05-16 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book breaks new ground on how policymakers and journalists can fairly assess charter school performance. The editors and authors show how good approaches to charter school assessment would also work for regular public schools, which is important because of the requirements of No Child Left Behind.
Download or read book A Meta Analysis of the Literature on the Effect of Charter Schools on Student Achievement written by Julian R. Betts and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charter schools represent an increasingly important form of school choice in the United States. Charter schools are public schools, with a difference. Compared to traditional public schools, they are exempted from some of the state laws and regulations that govern traditional public schools. In this way, parents come to have a greater number of choices among schools, and, due to deregulation, it is expected that the charter schools are distinct from traditional public schools. The intent is that charter schools can provide students with alternative curricula, teaching methods, and teachers who may differ in educational background and training from teachers in traditional public schools. This study, after reviewing research from across the United States, asks whether charter schools are producing higher achievement for students compared to traditional public schools. A meta-analysis was performed of the literature on charter schools and achievement, with a focus on lottery-based studies and rigorous value-added studies. Overall, for the limited set of charter schools, locations, and years that have been studied to date, charter schools are producing higher achievement gains in math relative to traditional public schools in most grade groupings. No significant differences emerged for reading achievement. However, for both math and reading the bulk of estimates are positive. Estimated charter school effects are highly variable, which likely reflects variations in the quality of education provided both at charter schools and at comparison schools, namely, local traditional public schools. Two figures and a table are appended.
Download or read book A Comparative Analysis of Charter Schools and Traditional Public Schools written by Jodi Renee Abbott Smith and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The focus of this descriptive research study was to compare charter and traditional public schools on the academic knowledge of fifth grade students as measured by Arizona's Instrument to Measure Standards (AIMS) in a suburb of a large southwestern city. This analysis also compared charter and traditional public schools on AYP status. It was hypothesized that there would be one type of school that demonstrated statistically higher achievement and more instances of meeting AYP. Data were collected over the course of the 2009, 2010 and 2011 school years. Between 2005 and 2011, charter schools grew at a higher rate than traditional public schools. The state of Arizona measures student achievement based on knowledge of the state academic standards as measured by the AIMS assessment. Twenty-seven matched pairs of charter and traditional public schools were compared on similar socioeconomic status, location and ethnicity. Student percentages were collected and analyzed using repeated measures factorial ANOVA. The analysis suggested no statistical difference in the academic achievement between charter and traditional public schools. It was also found that there was no statistical difference between the number of charter and traditional public schools who met AYP. Within a suburb of a large southwestern city, charter schools are growing in number, but do not significantly outperform their traditional public school counterparts.
Download or read book School Choice written by Susan Phillips and published by SAEE. This book was released on 2004 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Charter Schools in Eight States written by Ron Zimmer and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charter schools now exist in 40 states, but the best charter-school studies to date have focused on individual states. This book examines charter schools in eight states with varied policy contexts. It assesses the characteristics of charter schools' students, their effectiveness in raising student achievement and promoting graduation and college entry, and their competitive effects on student achievement in traditional public schools.
Download or read book Charter School Operations and Performance written by Ron Zimmer and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 1999-06-30 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzes an array of issues pertaining to accessibility, student achievement, governance, and operation of charter schools in California. Four specific research questions were investigated: (1) What population of students attends charter schools? (2) Is student achievement higher in charter schools than in conventional public schools? (3) What oversight and support do the chartering authorities provide? (4) How do charter schools differ from their conventional public school counterparts in terms of their operation, including finances, academic achievement, and staffing?
Download or read book Teacher Perceptions of Collective Faculty Trust in Charter Schools and Traditional Public Schools written by Douglas Sean Mcdaniel (Sr.) and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: Research dedicated to understanding the effects of charter schools on student outcomes has yielded mixed results. Some findings indicate increased levels of student achievement in charter schools as compared with traditional public schools and some findings indicate lower levels of student achievement in charter schools as compared to traditional public schools. What is not known is teacher perceptions of cultural conditions in charter schools that could potentially influence student outcomes. This exploratory study compared teacher perceptions of collective faculty trust in the charter school where they are currently teaching and their perceptions of collective faculty trust based on previous teaching experience in traditional public schools. Paired samples t-tests were conducted to compare the means of each paired sample. Findings included statistical significance (2-tailed) at .000 for all four paired samples that were analyzed. These findings support the hypotheses that teachers who have taught in both charter schools and traditional public schools perceive higher overall collective faculty trust in charter schools and that perceptions of collective faculty trust of the principal, colleagues and clients is also higher in charter schools than in traditional public schools where they have taught. These findings may provide a foundation for further research investigating why some charter schools are successful and others are not. Additionally, the study may guide policy makers, law makers, and state department officials as they contemplate charter school expansion.
Download or read book Student Achievement in Philadelphia Regional Charter Schools a Comparative and Longitudinal Study written by Violet Hanzely Sible and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study investigated fifth-grade student achievement in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania regional public charter schools as compared to student achievement in traditional public schools, and determined whether the performance of charter schools changed over time. Research questions asked 1) how does student achievement in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania regional public charters compare to that of traditional public schools, and 2) do Philadelphia, Pennsylvania regional charter schools show increased student achievement over time? Drawing on an approach used by Miron (2002; 2005; 2007), the creation of adjusted, or filtered scores using regression models (one for reading and one for mathematics) that correlated slope and intercept performed with traditional public schools and public charter schools for each of the five years of the study. This approach sanctioned the investigation to control for the influence of student achievement predictors generally recognized in the research literature: socioeconomic status, ethnicity, special needs status, and school size. The result produced three measures for each of the schools: actual scores, predicted scores based on the adjustment for demographic variables and the computed difference between the actual and predicted scores. A comparison and analysis of score differences overtime delineated whether the gap between public charter and traditional public school achievement changed. As public charter schools matured, and as the number of operational public charters increased, Ttest results confirmed that charter school performance in the Philadelphia region improved, as well as, surpassed their traditional public school counterparts improved. Results of the study have policy implications regarding public charter school funding, methods to properly assess school-wide student achievement, and the equitable treatment of both public charter and traditional public schools with regard to sanctions related to student achievement outcomes. Further, study findings may guide future research about public charter schools in terms of methodologies and research models that might extend the line of inquiry.
Download or read book Comparing Achievement Between Traditional Public Schools and Charter Schools Within the Big Eight Urban School Districts in Ohio written by Brent E. Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this study was to investigate whether charter schools produce higher test scores than traditional public schools within the largest eight urban school districts in Ohio. With an emphasis on techniques and contexts borrowed from critical race and feminist empiricist frameworks, this study examined state test data and provides insight into charter schooling reform. The results of the overall study suggested that charter schools were not performing significantly better than traditional public schools. The few times that differences did occur, traditional public schools were outperforming their charter school counterparts.
Download or read book Charter Schools and Their Enemies written by Thomas Sowell and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In dozens of places in New York City where a charter school and a traditional public school hold classes in the same building, charter school students in those buildings have achieved "proficiency" on statewide tests several times more often than traditional public school students taking the same tests. In 2013, a fifth-grade class in a Harlem charter school scored higher on a mathematics test than any other fifth-grade class in the entire state of New York. That included, as the New York Times put it, "even their counterparts in the whitest and richest suburbs, Scarsdale and Briarcliff Manor." Nationwide, charter schools have only a fraction of the number of students who attend traditional public schools. But charter schools enrollment is growing faster, especially in low-income minority communities. From 2001 to 2016, enrollment in traditional public schools rose 1 percent, while charter school enrollment rose 571 percent. In cities across the country, with many students on waiting lists to transfer into charter schools, public school officials are blocking charter schools from using school buildings that have been vacant for years, in order to prevent those transfers from taking place. Even in states where blocking charter schools from using vacant school buildings is illegal, the laws have been evaded. In some places, vacant school buildings have been demolished, making sure no charter schools can use them. Book jacket.
Download or read book A Comparison of Student Achievement in Florida Charter Schools with Not for profit and For profit Management Models written by Maurice S. Kaprow and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Questions are raised by this research regarding the public funding of for-profit or proprietary charter schools if they do not routinely achieve superior results to traditional public schools. Implications for future research both building on this study and investigating other aspects of charter school performance include conducting similar studies on a recurring basis to better evaluate charter school performance, closer study on the role the covariates (minority status, disability status, and English language learner status) has on charter school student achievement, and a comparison of Florida's charter schools with Florida’s traditional public schools.
Download or read book Handbook of Research in Education Finance and Policy written by Helen F. Ladd and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-17 with total page 693 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sponsored by the Association for Education Finance and Policy (AEFP), the second edition of this groundbreaking handbook assembles in one place the existing research-based knowledge in education finance and policy, with particular attention to elementary and secondary education. Chapters from the first edition have been fully updated and revised to reflect current developments, new policies, and recent research. With new chapters on teacher evaluation, alternatives to traditional public schooling, and cost-benefit analysis, this volume provides a readily available current resource for anyone involved in education finance and policy. The Handbook of Research in Education Finance and Policy traces the evolution of the field from its initial focus on school inputs and revenue sources used to finance these inputs, to a focus on educational outcomes and the larger policies used to achieve them. Chapters show how decision making in school finance inevitably interacts with decisions about governance, accountability, equity, privatization, and other areas of education policy. Because a full understanding of important contemporary issues requires inputs from a variety of perspectives, the Handbook draws on contributors from a number of disciplines. Although many of the chapters cover complex, state-of-the-art empirical research, the authors explain key concepts in language that non-specialists can understand. This comprehensive, balanced, and accessible resource provides a wealth of factual information, data, and wisdom to help educators improve the quality of education in the United States.
