"Charter Schools and Their Enemies." ---Walter E. Williams - Posts

Walter E. Williams - Posts--By Walter E.Williams July 7, 2020
"Dr. Thomas Sowell has just published "Charter Schools and Their Enemies."
He presents actual test scores of students in traditional public schools and charter schools on New York State Education Department's annual English Language Arts test and its Mathematics Test. Sowell gives the results of student tests in charter schools such as KIPP, Success Academy, Explore Schools, Uncommon Schools, Achievement First as well as the traditional New York City public schools.
On the English Language Arts test, a majority of charter school students, most of whom were black or Hispanic, tested proficient or above.
Their achievement ratio was nearly 5 to 1.
On the Mathematics test 68% of charter schools' 161 grade levels had a majority of students testing proficient.
In the traditional public schools, 177 grade levels, just 10% had a majority of their student testing proficient.
...Sowell says: "In a realm where educational failure has long been the norm — schools in low income minority neighborhoods — this is success, a remarkable success.
What is equally remarkable is how unwelcome this success has been in many places.
What has been especially remarkable is that it has been the most educationally successful charter schools that seem to have drawn the most hostility, both in words and in deeds."...
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