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Article on TX charter schools

See: Radcliffe, Jennifer "Charter schools on the chopping block?" Houston Chronicle. March 20, 2007. WhisperToMe (talk) 15:39, 18 September 2010 (UTC)

This work generally finds

I edited the section entitled "Learning Gains Studies." Whoever wrote the section claims that "this work generally finds that charter schools outperform traditional schools," but only provides citations for four (randomly selected, I presume) papers. Until you provide a meta-analysis that shows what this work "generally finds," I've changed the wording to reflect the uncertainty of the claim. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Alexandergreenb (talk • contribs) 23:23, 26 September 2010 (UTC)

A criticism or a compliment?

The description under the subheading "Too much power for teachers and parents" does not appear to explain why it is not beneficial to give more power to parents and teachers. More info is needed. Otherwise, maybe it would be better to move that section to another section such as "Structure and Characteristics." mezzaninelounge (talk) 15:14, 22 March 2011 (UTC)

Regarding the Stanford study on charters

SPELLING ERROR ON CHART: The graphic chart for the Stanford U study misspells "performance" in the graphic as PERFORMACE.69.126.88.80 (talk) 05:40, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

Regarding the numbers in the CREDO study, if 46% of charters are the same as public schools, 17% better and 37% worse, does that mean Charters have an overall net result of being 74% worse than public schools (or in other words, only 26% as good as public schools)? Did I do something wrong because it seems much too negative. CartoonDiablo (talk) 23:06, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

No, they're just dumb. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.101.161.38 (talk) 13:15, 4 June 2011 (UTC)

46% + 37% is 83% and this would only be the amount that are worse if you consider those that are the same to be worse. 26% are not the amount that are "as good" as public schools according to this study. They are the amount that are better.--Jorfer (talk) 16:08, 4 June 2011 (UTC)

Actually I answered the question to myself a while ago. If we take we do 37%-17% (worse - better) to get a net improvement of 20% and add it to the 46% that are as good, we find that charters are 66% as good as public schools. Obviously based on the figures charters are overall worse. CartoonDiablo (talk) 19:37, 4 June 2011 (UTC)

I think you are mixing apples and oranges here. The percentages are the number of charter schools that are better than, or the same as, or worse than public schools, and not the amount better. If a charter school does 1% better than public schools, than it would go in that 17% while a charter school that does 50% worse would go in the 37%. So you can't draw any conclusions about how much better or worse charter schools do compared to public schools. You can say that 83% are do no better than public schools, and/or that 54% do no worse than public schools, but that's about it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wschart (talk • contribs) 19:36, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

Joravsky- Chicago Reader

Ben Joravsky of the Chicago Reader has written some interesting critiques of local charters... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Scroblachoir (talk • contribs) 00:23, 3 August 2011 (UTC)

"Chocha power"?

I have no idea what chocha power is, but I imagine it is a defacement. In any case, this statement should be corrected or barring that, clairified. Unit335 (talk) 03:13, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

Fixed. TJRC (talk) 04:25, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

More charters

• Kastenbaum, Steve. "Charter schools: Wave of the future?" CNN. December 15, 2011.

WhisperToMe (talk) 01:04, 16 December 2011 (UTC)