Comparing Public and Charter Schools - Caroline Hoxby, Ph.D. - Show-Me Institute

[IUEC38]

This lady gets paid by a lot of charters regularly

[hookalakah]

Randi Weingarten, powerful head of the American Federation of Teachers (1.4 million members), calls Mr. Obama the “education president.” However, when congressional Democrats recently doomed the Opportunity Scholarship Program for poor children in the District, the education president didn’t say a word.

Of the 1,700 students, starting in kindergarten, in this private-school voucher program, 90 percent are black and 9 percent are Hispanic." --Nat Hentoff, March 30, 2009

[CharterSchoolRadio]

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[ilikemitchhedberg]

I've lived in LA and NYC all of my life, and the results from public schools are astounding: the kids can't add up a simple column of numbers, and they read and write worse than I did when I was in 3rd grade.

Public schools are a joke.

[ilikemitchhedberg]

The real point is that Charter schools way out perform Public schools, and everyone knows it.

Public schools are a total fraud, when you take everything into consideration. Public schools have massive grade inflation, they cost too much, they teach no job skills, they preach atheism, and the teachers often cheat and correct their students errors on standardized testing.

Its time to let parents decide where their money goes instead of giving incompetents a monopoly on schools.

[ohohmrbill1]

Take the time to look up Gulen charter schools. Some schools have a hidden agenda Sonoran Scince academy takes parents,students and teacher to Turkey part of that trip every year is to visit a mosque. Your taxes are paying for these charter schools. Please take the time to google it. Weebly gulen, gulen charter school, charterschoolwatchdog.

[cosmicviewer477]

What she is saying is absolute nonsense. If charter schools are mostly populated by so-called, "hard-to-teach" children and are still not performing as well as the average suburban school, then what exactly is the point? Because the reason "charter school legislation" was passed was to get low-performing children into high-performing, academic environments, in order to close the acheivement gaps.

[harvey1954]

Just another charter shil trying to mislead the public. Charters in urban areas do not do as well as public schools IN URBAN AREAS either, Caroline! And the charters are filled with more white kids than the public schools. Charters do have the advantage of screening out problem kids. If one gets through they end back at the public schools within a year. How long do you think a prima donna like Hoxby would last in a public school classroom?

[raptorkiller2k5]

@harvey1954. You may have a point, bu t the gap between, say, black and white, amongst the same class, is higher now than prior to the 60s. It's rather disturbing considering Harlem used to have similar success stories as the impoverished, largely "white", Lower East Side. If we were to argue that socio-economic state was worse back then, then, why not criticize the current public schools?

PS: Take a look at the high performance of Dunbar High school ( poor, and black, btw) during segregation.