Reasons for Charter School Success - Caroline Hoxby, Ph.D. - Show-Me Institute

http://www.showmeinstitute.org/ - Caroline Hoxby, Ph.D., the Scott and Donya Bommer Professor of Economics at Stanford University, spoke with the Show-Me Institute on May 5, 2009, about why some charter schools are able to succeed where other other schools are not. Hoxby is also a senior fellow of the Hoover Institution, the director of the Economics of Education Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and Senior Fellow of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research.

This clip was excerpted from a larger interview with Dr. Hoxby, which can be found in two parts here:

Part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufAsKuQewOM

Part 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ic3zPtwIzUQ

Dr. Hoxby also delivered a lecture in Saint Louis on May 5, cosponsored by the Show-Me Institute and Saint Louis University's John Cook School of Business. The full lecture can be found in five parts here:

Part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPaz-MZ0o9c

Part 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpfrlGzXucI

Part 3:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kkfbCM6bbU

Part 4:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlPW-ndq--U

Part 5:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2U0NHfEX8g

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[dreamdatedoug]

You're forgetting one big factor in the success of charter schools. Parents must make the effort to actually enroll their children in charter schools. The parents who would actually go to the trouble are clearly more involved in their child's education (if they weren't, they wouldn't have even bothered trying to remove them from the failing public school). If students were chosen at random to enroll in the charter school, the results would be different.