Seeing Charters Differently: A New Approach to National Comparisons of Charter and Traditional Public Schools

Autor/in	Malkus, Nat
Titel	Seeing Charters Differently: A New Approach to National Comparisons of Charter and Traditional Public Schools
Quelle	In: Journal of School Choice, 10 (2016) 4, S.479-494 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1558-2159
DOI	10.1080/15582159.2016.1238737
Schlagwörter	Comparative Analysis; Traditional Schools; Charter Schools; Public Schools; Limited English Speaking; Poverty; Disadvantaged Youth; Special Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Traditioneller Unterricht; Charter school; Charter-Schule; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Armut; Benachteiligter Jugendlicher; Special needs education; Sonderpädagogik; Sonderschulwesen
Abstract	The national debate over charter schooling has become increasingly heated in 2016, driven by polarized narratives about the students charters typically serve. Opponents argue charters cream-skim more advantaged students, while proponents hold they primarily serve historically disadvantaged students. National evidence on charter student selectivity has not kept pace with these arguments. Rigorous comparisons of charter and traditional public schools (TPSs) have limited scope and generalizability, while oversimplified national comparisons are often misleading. This essay presents a novel method for national comparisons of charter schools' student poverty, special education, limited English proficient (LEP) composition and discipline rates, to those of their nearest five TPS neighbors. Findings show that charters' student compositions differ from those in neighboring TPSs, but not in uniform ways. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01