Charter school success: Luck of the draw?
Guest blogger Mandy Hass is the parent of a Manhattan 4th-grader and the director of business development and marketing for Advocates for Children, the parent organization of Insideschools.org.
Charter school supporters are crowing over a new apples-to-apples study — conducted right here in the Big Apple — showing that charter students outperformed their peers whose parents tried but failed to get their kids into charter schools.
Charter cheerleaders are chastising skeptics who’ve dismissed any data showing that charter students do better on standardized tests on the assumption that charters cream the kids most likely to succeed (because their parents or guardians cared enough to apply). (more…)
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