What's the big difference between charter schools and free schools? | Education | The Guardian - 0 views
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By comparing students in each charter school with similar students attending a local traditional school, researchers measured the impact that attending each institution had.
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The 2013 study shows that the effect of school type is largely negligible when looking across students as a whole. But for poor students, especially poor minority ethnic students, charter schools bestowed substantial learning benefits.
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While these releases are welcome, it is a shame they arrived only after legal appeals, and the public still has no way of knowing what the new school founders promised in their applications, whether the mandatory consultations with local people were faithfully represented, or why proposals were accepted or rejected – leaving some people questioning whether all applicants have been treated equally.
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