Walter Williams: Charter Schools Blowing Public Schools Out of the Water on Testing
By Walter E. Williams | July 7, 2020 | 12:28pm EDT
Dr. Thomas Sowell has just published "Charter Schools and Their Enemies." He presents actual test scores of students in traditional public schools and charter schools on the New York State Education Department's annual English language arts test and its Mathematics Test.
Sowell gives the results of student tests in charter schools such as the Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP), Success Academy, Explore Schools, Uncommon Schools, Achievement First, as well as the traditional New York City public schools. On the English language arts test, a majority of charter school students, most of whom were black or Hispanic, tested proficient or above. Their achievement ratio was nearly 5 to 1. On the mathematics test, 68 percent of charter schools' 161 grade levels had a majority of students testing proficient. In the traditional public schools, 177 grade levels, just 10 percent had a majority of their student testing proficient.
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