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Stanford report finds good and bad in Pennsylvania charter schools - Philly.com - 1 views

  • The results were more dismal for cyber charter schools: Students at 100 percent of them performed "significantly worse" than their counterparts in district schools.
    • anonymous
       
      If that's the case then why are our tax dollars going there and NOT into public schools? Shouldn't this be cause for SERIOUS concern?
  • But, on average, the state's charter school students lag behind the gains of students in regular public schools - 39 percent of charter schools underperform their public school counterparts in reading and 46 percent in math.
    • anonymous
       
      Of course, we have to flip those numbers as well. If 39% underperform, then 61% OUTperform.
Michelle Krill

Lehigh Valley news, Easton news, Bethlehem news, Allentown news, Phillipsburg news and ... - 3 views

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    Pennsylvania push for cyber and charter school funding reforms | http://t.co/gcuiZSAD http://t.co/xJeGGBrr
anonymous

Stanford report finds good and bad in Pennsylvania charter schools - Page 2 - Philly.com - 4 views

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  • But he said the Corbett administration wanted to make sure charter schools were held to the same performance standards as district-run schools.
    • anonymous
       
      What will this mean? Held to the same standards but will they also be held to the same punishments for poor performance?
Sue Miller

The-Rise-of-K-12-Blended-Learning.pdf - 9 views

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    from Michael Horn's Horn's Innosight Institute and The Charter School Growth Fund.
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    "The paper profiles 40 influential blended learning organizations that are among the earliest pioneers of this fast-growing sector-including several Apex Learning high school district partners such as Chicago's VOISE Academy (pg 150) and Wichita Public (pg 157). Also documented is the effectiveness achieved by these organizations in reducing costs and improving academic performance with high quality, personalized instruction through online learning in brick-and-mortar classrooms."
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