If the charter school students' educational performance is no different than that of public schools then charter schools do not work. If when factoring out parental involvement, there is no difference from public schools, then again they do not work. That is what the data show. Ergo they do not work. What is most commonly found for voucher programs is that for the majority of students no gains are found when switched to a private school, for those who do show an increase (mainly african american students) it isn't clear whether its a function of the school, or simply because the parents become more involved with the kid's education, (http://www.utahfoundation.org/pdf2/rr655.pdf).
Myself I think the real difference is twofold, private schools can cherry pick the students, not need to accept poor performers, disabled students or students for whom english is a second language. Second, most private schools require more parental involvement. We looked at this issue in grad school for a course on causal modeling and path analysis using the full NORC dataset (see http://norc.org).When you accounted for parental involvement, there were no statistically significant differences in educational performance, as measured by standardized tests of educational achievement, between public and private schools. larry On 10/6/05, Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Larry wrote: > > It it can be reliably shown that charter schools > > and vouchers don't work > > If by "don't work" you mean "work well enough to be reaffirmed for the > last 25 years in Milwaukee" then I agree. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:176370 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
