• Research Report

    Reassessing North Carolina’s Charter Schools: A Note on Caroline Hoxby’s Findings

    posted July 17, 2005 by Craig M. Newmark
    In response to a widely cited study by the American Federation of Teachers, Harvard education professor Caroline Hoxby recently released a study of the academic proficiency of charter school students. Hoxby finds charter schools comparing favorably with regular public schools: "charter students are 5.2 percent more likely to be proficient in reading and 3.2 percent more likely to be proficient in math on their state’s exams."

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