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	<title>Comments on: Charter School Students and Tests</title>
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		<title>By: Christina</title>
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		<dc:creator>Christina</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:39:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>That was my first thought when I see all these statistics, too. However, the most comprehensive, independent study I have found on NYC charters actually compares charter school statistics with children who applied to charters and were not admitted, not just to the entire population. These families value education just the same if they applied. The study still shows that charter students perform better than those who applied but were not admitted.  I am not a charter advocate or opponent...just letting you know.  I forget the name of the study, but if you search &quot;NYC charter schools evaluation&quot; or something like that, I am sure it will come up easily.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That was my first thought when I see all these statistics, too. However, the most comprehensive, independent study I have found on NYC charters actually compares charter school statistics with children who applied to charters and were not admitted, not just to the entire population. These families value education just the same if they applied. The study still shows that charter students perform better than those who applied but were not admitted.  I am not a charter advocate or opponent&#8230;just letting you know.  I forget the name of the study, but if you search &#8220;NYC charter schools evaluation&#8221; or something like that, I am sure it will come up easily.</p>
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		<title>By: Daniel Millstone</title>
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		<dc:creator>Daniel Millstone</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 13:56:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This is a good start at understanding test score differences. Thanks for this and for alerting us to the underlying report which is very interesting.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is a good start at understanding test score differences. Thanks for this and for alerting us to the underlying report which is very interesting.</p>
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		<title>By: Janet</title>
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		<dc:creator>Janet</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 22:56:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Even if the demographics match, the home of the child whose parent has sought out a charter school (rather than sending the child to a zoned school) values education. No surprise that s/he does better in school.  It&#039;s much more likely that s/he has a quiet place to study at home, has a bedtime, and isn&#039;t given an unreasonable number of chores which would interfere with studying.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Even if the demographics match, the home of the child whose parent has sought out a charter school (rather than sending the child to a zoned school) values education. No surprise that s/he does better in school.  It&#8217;s much more likely that s/he has a quiet place to study at home, has a bedtime, and isn&#8217;t given an unreasonable number of chores which would interfere with studying.</p>
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