The charter schools in Oakland and LA are bucking those trends On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Larry C. Lyons <[email protected]> wrote: > > Just a very short comment. You seem to think that public schooling is > the cause of the dropout rate. You are wrong. Those dropout rates are > a good example of the third variable problem. Its most likely not the > public vs private vs home school that is the problem. Rather the > result is most likely due to the endemic poverty in those cities. When > you control for poverty, you'll find that the dropout rates are no > more or less than what you would find in affluent areas. > > Try it your self. Get a good stats program, SPSS, SAS, or R2. Then > download the NORC 2001 and Beyond data set from the University of > Chicago. This is a huge data set of the academic achievement of > thousands of school children who were followed from entry into > kindergarten to when they exited the school system. Not only was > school achievement measured, but family economic, and various > sociological factors were also recorded. > > You will find that poverty is a stronger predictor of school dropout > rates than any other predictor variable with the possible exception of > parental involvement. >
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