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• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: TILTING at windmills - Comparing charter schools and public schools - Brief article

Back to my point about not being automatically in favor or against an institution. You may have heard from public school advocates that charter schools perform no better than public schools. Indeed, this is largely confirmed by the most recent study by Stanford University's Center for Research on Education Outcomes, although the charters did do slightly better on reading. In some places, however, charter schools made a big difference. In general, poor children, particularly African American and Hispanic, made significant gains at charters. Charters...