National Charter School Study 2013

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National Charter School Study 2013

http://fulltextreports.com/2013/06/25/national-charter-school-study-2013/

“National Charter School Study 2013 (PDF)
Source: CREDO at Stanford University
From press release (PDF):

A new , independent national study finds improvement in the overall performance of charter schools, driven in part by the presence of more high – performing charters and closure of underperforming charter schools.

The National Charter School Study 2013, released today by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) at Stanford University , is an update and expansi on of CREDO’s 2009 landmark 16-state study , Multiple Choice, the first study to take a comprehensive look at the impact of charter schools on student performance. The 2009 study found a wide variance in quality among charter schools, with students in charter schools not faring as well in the aggregate as those attending traditional public schools.

The National Charter School Study 2013 looks at performance of students in charter schools in 26 states and New York City, which is treated separately as the city differs dramatically from the rest of the state. In those states (and New York City), charter school students now have greater learning gains in reading than their peers in traditional public s chools. Traditional public schools and charter schools have equivalent learning gains in mathematics.

In the aggregate, charter school students in the 26 states in the new study gain ed an additional 8 days of learning each year in readi ng beyond their local peers in traditional public schools. The 2009 study found a loss of 7 days each year in reading among the students in the 16 states. In mathematics, charter school students in 2009 posted 22 fewer days of learning than their traditional public school counterparts; today there exists no significant difference in days of learning.

Executive Summary
Tech Appendix
Supplementary Findings

The Infographics
Virtual Control Records
Interactive Map of Charter States
16-State Update School Groups
16-State Reading State Charter Impact Changes
16-State Math State Charter Impact Changes
27-State School Level Reading Quality
27-State School Level Math Quality
27-State Reading State Charter Impacts
27-State Math State Charter Impacts”

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