Re:The Rise and Fall of For-Profit Schools
by ThomPete on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @02:39PM
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No one is claiming their overall performance is better and I deliberately didn't talk about charter schools in general. I reacted to the characterization from exelius about how charter schools somehow was worse.
All I want is for my kid to learn first of all reading, writing and math.
I don't even care about whether one school outperform another but there seem to be various studies showing different things.
My guess is that charter schools work a little better because of the Hawthorne Effect.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect
And studies show different things. According to this it's better in general. But to me thats less important you can probably find studies that shows other things too.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-06-25/stanford-u...
I attended the best public schools in the county. Consistently listed in the top 10 nationally. My former public high school is effectively a private school. Just a few miles away are some of the worst performing schools in my state. Elsewhere, most schools are somewhere in the middle.
Similarly, some charters are above average, many are terrible, most are somewhere in between.
Overall, charter schools performance is no different than public schools.