The death and life of the great american school system: how testing and choice are undermining education by Diane Ravitch

Author:Diane Ravitch [Diane Ravitch]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Roman
ISBN: 9780465014910
Published: 2010-09-15T07:00:00+00:00

In the same year, however, Caroline Hoxby and her colleagues at Stanford reached a starkly different conclusion. In a study of New York City charter schools, Hoxby determined that disadvantaged students who attended charter schools for nine consecutive years, from kindergarten to eighth grade, closed most of the “Scarsdale-Harlem” achievement gap. She compared students who won the lottery with students who entered but did not win, matching equally motivated students, to demonstrate that the charters did not attain great results by “creaming” the best students. This finding suggested to editorialists at the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and other national media that charter schools were the silver bullet that could finally solve the most deep-seated problems of urban education.47

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