Same students poorer performance in NC

[BaliBabyDoc]

Raleigh News & Disturber

DURHAM -- State exam results indicate that most students at North Carolina's charter schools would perform better if they stayed in traditional public schools.
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"Our estimates imply that students in North Carolina do less well in charter schools than they would have done in traditional public schools and that the negative effects of attending a charter school are large," the study's authors wrote.
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Duke public policy professor Helen Ladd said her research avoids that problem by measuring how both types of schools do with the same students.

"We're comparing the students to themselves," she said.

She said her research doesn't mean that all charter schools are bad but that most are. Ladd's husband, Ted Fiske, was among the founders of Durham's Central Park School for Children charter school.
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Ladd recommended that, for now, the state stick with its decision to cap the number of charter schools at 100.

"We think charter schools are a good thing, but we think they should stay on the fringe," she said.

 

[AcidicFury]

It's sad but true.

<- Goes to Chapel Hill public schools.

 

[BaliBabyDoc]

Originally posted by: AcidicFury
It's sad but true.

<- Goes to Chapel Hill public schools.

Chapel Hill High or East?

 

[AcidicFury]

East

 

[zephyrprime]

I take it that Chapel Hill is in North Carolina?

 

[RabidMongoose]

Yes it is.

 

[AcidicFury]

Originally posted by: zephyrprime
I take it that Chapel Hill is in North Carolina?

We're the radical, hippy side of NC.

 

[Vadatajs]

That's consistent with the NY times article on the same subject. Now that 2 studies have shown that privitization isn't a panacea, will the morons on the right continue to preach the virtues of thier invisible hand?

 

[BaliBabyDoc]

Originally posted by: Vadatajs
That's consistent with the NY times article on the same subject. Now that 2 studies have shown that privitization isn't a panacea, will the morons on the right continue to preach the virtues of thier invisible hand?

What they typically claim is that a solitary example of a good charter justifies the overwelming majority being crappy. Further, many have such an open disdain for public schools that they embrace any opportunity to decrease funding or otherwise undermine the institution.

 

[Mill]

My brother and his wife are both teachers in Charter Schools in Florida. They said that Public school is better in their opinion, but mainly because of budgeting, and the students send to charter schools .