[lbo-talk] Recipe for "privatizing" schools

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Nov 10 09:35:20 PST 2009


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).



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