Urban charter schools and charters serving low-achieving, low-income students show the strongest positive achievement impacts¶

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Subclaims¶

q2 i? Research summarized in the paper indicates urban charter schools and charter schools primarily serving low-achieving and low-income students have the strongest positive impacts on student achievement. → Philip M. Gleason 2016

Evidence¶

Philip M. Gleason 2016¶

Philip M. Gleason. (2016). What's the Secret Ingredient? Searching for Policies and Practices that Make Charter Schools Successful. Working Paper 47. Washington, DC: Mathematica Policy Research. https://www.mathematica.org/publications/whats-the-secret-ingredient-searching-for-policies-and-practices-that-make-charter-schools doi:10.1080/15582159.2017.1395620

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The paper's synthesis of charter school research reports that "urban charter schools and charter schools primarily serving low-achieving and low-income students have the strongest positive impacts on student achievement." No pooled effect sizes are printed on the page.

"The research suggests that urban charter schools and charter schools primarily serving low-achieving and low-income students have the strongest positive impacts on student achievement."

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

• Socioeconomic Status — moderator: an instructional effect differs by group

Related Claims¶

• Urban charter schools have more positive impacts on student achievement than other charter schools — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
• The Kauffman School's achievement impacts are higher than the average impacts found in studies of other charter schools — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
• High-dosage tutoring, frequent teacher feedback and coaching, and data-driven instructional practices show moderately strong evidence of association with charter-school achievement impacts — related
• In the earlier National Evaluation of Charter Middle Schools, admission to about 30 charter middle schools produced no significant average effects on achievement, though some schools improved achievement — related