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9780807746158

The Charter School Dust-up: Examining The Evidence On Enrollment And Achievement

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  • ISBN13:

    9780807746158

  • ISBN10:

    0807746150

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2005-04-30
  • Publisher: Teachers College Pr
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Summary

When federal statistics showed test scores lower in charter than in regular schools, some charter school supporters insisted this must result from charter schools enrolling harder-to-teach minority students. Data show, however, that typical charter school students are not more disadvantaged, yet their average achievement is not higher. Even if some charter schools are superior, deregulation also permits charter schools that are inferior, with average performance no higher than in regular public schools. Debates spurred by federal charter school test data show how all debates about education could be improved: by carefully accounting for the difficulty of educating particular groups of students before interpreting test scores, and by focusing on student gains, not their level of achievement at any particular time.

Author Biography

Lawrence Mishel is president of the Economic Policy Institute and director of its education research and policy program.

Table of Contents

Introduction and summary 1(8)
Chapter 1. The reaction to the AFT's report on charter school scores 9(8)
Chapter 2. Can the 'dust-up' lead to a new consensus in education research and policy? 17(4)
Chapter 3. Problems with the critiques of the NAEP report by charter school supporters 21(8)
No schools, charter or regular public, should be evaluated using point-in-time score levels
21(2)
Shortcomings of No Child Left Behind' performance measures
23(2)
How charter school zealots helped create the NAEP charter sample
25(4)
Chapter 4. Are charter school students more disadvantaged than regular public school students, and does this explain charter schools' unexpectedly low NAEP scores? 29(38)
How selection bias complicates the evaluation of charter schools
29(4)
The NCES analysis of the charter school NAEP sample
33(3)
Comparative studies of charter and regular public school demographics in individual states
36(11)
Arizona
37(1)
California
37(3)
Colorado
40(1)
Connecticut
41(1)
District of Columbia
42(1)
Florida
42(1)
Illinois
42(1)
Massachusetts
42(1)
Michigan
43(1)
North Carolina
44(1)
Pennsylvania
44(1)
Texas
44(1)
Wisconsin
45(1)
Summary of demographic data from state-level studies
45(2)
Are charter demographics over-stated because of a failure to offer the lunch program?
47(1)
Other evidence of the relative advantage or disadvantage of charter school students
48(3)
The KIPP case
51(16)
Chapter 5. What we know about relative charter and regular public school student achievement 67(42)
The NCES's own analysis of charter school NAEP scores
67(3)
Evidence from state-level studies regarding the achievement of charter school students
70(28)
On the policy views of researchers
70(1)
Description of state-level studies of charter school achievement
71(21)
Arizona
80(1)
California
81(4)
Colorado
85(1)
Connecticut
86(1)
District of Columbia
86(1)
Florida
86(1)
Illinois
87(1)
Michigan
87(1)
North Carolina
88(1)
Pennsylvania
89(1)
Texas
89(1)
Wisconsin
89(3)
Age-of-school influences on charter school student achievement
92(3)
The competition effect
95(2)
Segregation
97(1)
The Hoxby studies
98(8)
Summary of evidence on charter and regular public school achievement
106(3)
Chapter 6. The philosophy of charter schools 109(16)
Are standardized test scores less important for charter schools, because charter schools will be shut down in any case if they don't perform well'?
109(7)
Are bureaucratic regulations and union rules the cause of low student achievement'?
116(9)
Chapter 7. Conclusion 125(2)
Appendix A. Using different standards for evaluating charter and regular public schools 127(14)
Robert Lerner and the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
127(3)
Former U.S. Secretary of Education Roderick Paige and Deputy Secretary Nina Rees
130(2)
Jeanne Allen and the Center for Education Reform
132(1)
Rev. Floyd Flake
133(1)
Jay P. Greene; Kaleem Caire, and the Black Alliance for Educational Options
134(3)
Howard Fuller
137(1)
"Shoot the Messenger" reactions of charter school zealots
138(3)
Appendix B. Alternative presentations of NAEP charter school demographic data 141(4)
Endnotes 145(18)
Bibliography 163(14)
Acknowledgments 177(2)
About EPI and Teachers College Press 179(1)
Titles of special interest to educators from the Economic Policy Institute 180(4)
Titles of special interest to educators from Teachers College Press 184

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