Re:The Myth of Charter Schools
by klenwell on Tuesday October 19, 2010 @12:23PM
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I thought that claim was weakly stated. She backs it up more convincingly with this point:
"The annual Gallup poll about education shows that Americans are overwhelmingly dissatisfied with the quality of the nation’s schools, but 77 percent of public school parents award their own child’s public school a grade of A or B, the highest level of approval since the question was first asked in 1985."
More central to her argument, however, was her point that once you control for spending and other factors, charter schools seem not to perform significantly better than public schools.
"The annual Gallup poll about education shows that Americans are overwhelmingly dissatisfied with the quality of the nation’s schools, but 77 percent of public school parents award their own child’s public school a grade of A or B, the highest level of approval since the question was first asked in 1985."
More central to her argument, however, was her point that once you control for spending and other factors, charter schools seem not to perform significantly better than public schools.