On Nov 10, 2009, at 12:26 PM, Dennis Perrin wrote:
> My son goes to a local charter school, and it's been the best
> educational experience he's ever had. Small classes. Young,
> committed teachers. Parental involvement (I teach there a bit each
> year). The lad has steadily improved and expanded his knowledge
> since 6th grade. This is his final year before high school. Makes me
> sad.
Curiously, the Stanford CREDO study I just cited reports that charter schools do better - by 0.01 standard deviation, which is not much at all - for students in poverty than students above poverty (who actually do slightly worse in charter schools than TPS).