The Charter School Dust-up: Examining The Evidence On Enrollment And Achievement
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| Rating | : | 4.98 (523 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0807746150 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 200 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-09-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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About the Author Martin Carnoy is a research associate of the Economic Policy Institute and professor of education and economics at Stanford University. Lawrence Mishel is president of the Economic Policy Institute and director of its education research and policy program. Rebecca Jacobsen is a research assistant at the Economic Policy Institute, a graduate student in politics and education at Teachers College, Columbia University, and formerly a teacher in New York City and Connecticut public schools. . Richard Rothstein is a research associate of the Economic Policy Institute and a visiting professor at Teachers College, Columbia University
The Charter School Dust-Up looks at national data and studies in 13 states to investigate charter school enrollment and achievement. This new book, co-published by the Economic Policy Institute and Teachers College Press, sheds much-needed light on the effectiveness of charter schools by analyzing current research and data to show how they perform compared to 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.. In the heated debate over charter schools, advocates insist charters are a beneficial alternative that especially helps economically disadvantaged students, while critics doubt these touted achievements
Richard Rothstein is a research associate of the Economic Policy Institute and a visiting professor at Teachers College, Columbia University. Martin Carnoy is a research associate of the Economic Policy Institute and professor of education and economics at Stanford University. Lawrence Mishel is president of the Economi
"Somewhat informative, but the book feels very one-sided and dated." according to Shawn S. Augsburger. I saw this book as a assigned book for a college course and even when this book came out it was already dated. Harvard University did a study back in '0Somewhat informative, but the book feels very one-sided and dated. Shawn S. Augsburger I saw this book as a assigned book for a college course and even when this book came out it was already dated. Harvard University did a study back in '04 before the copyright on this book on the topic of charter schools and their performance relative to the local schools with similar demographics and came up with completely different results showing in most cases charters did better than the local school with similar racial makeup performed.The authors of this book base their assertion that charter schools are unsuccessful relative to regular public schools based upon an AFT study, which only sampled ~. before the copyright on this book on the topic of charter schools and their performance relative to the local schools with similar demographics and came up with completely different results showing in most cases charters did better than the local school with similar racial makeup performed.The authors of this book base their assertion that charter schools are unsuccessful relative to regular public schools based upon an AFT study, which only sampled ~. Walking an Educational Tightrope When The New York Times printed a front-page story in the summer of 200Walking an Educational Tightrope Walt Gardner When The New York Times printed a front-page story in the summer of 2004 about the inferior performance on average of charter schools compared with regular public schools, it unleashed a controversy that has still not died down. The Times's reportage was based on data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress that the American Federation of Teachers had first published. Against this backdrop, Martin Carnoy, Rebecca Jacobsen, Lawrence Mishel and Richard Rothstein have written "The Charter School Dust-Up." The intent was to examine as comprehensively as possible all the available evidence. The. about the inferior performance on average of charter schools compared with regular public schools, it unleashed a controversy that has still not died down. The Times's reportage was based on data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress that the American Federation of Teachers had first published. Against this backdrop, Martin Carnoy, Rebecca Jacobsen, Lawrence Mishel and Richard Rothstein have written "The Charter School Dust-Up." The intent was to examine as comprehensively as possible all the available evidence. The. informative study on charter schools Copious, detailed statistics and related material represented in the book's many tables finds that despite the claims of charter schools' advocates and some success stories, there is no meaningful difference between charter schools and public schools. "[C]harter schools are not, and likely will not be, able to play a large role in reforming public education as a whole." The four authors are all academics in the overlapping areas of economics and education belonging to the Institute publishing this timely study that is associated with Teachers College, Columbia U. The Bush Administration's program "No C