A Study of the Effects of Charter Schools on Student Achievement, Attendance, and Selected Mitigating Factors in a Midwestern State’s Midsize Urban School Districts
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9728738 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Frederick C Clarke (Manara Academy, Coppell, TX, USA, corresponding author), Walter L Burt (Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, USA) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 9 |
| Pages | 1265-1290 |
| Publication date | 2019-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Education and Urban Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-1245 • E-ISSN: 1552-3535 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0013124518785015 |
| OpenAlex | W2254576816 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 29 |
Charter schools in urban environments have been scrutinized for their effectiveness. This study attempted to determine whether students attending Midwestern urban charter schools outperformed students in traditional schools on the state’s accountability system over a 5-year time period. Using a quasi-experimental research design, data were collected from 31 Midwestern urban school districts, along with data from 88 adjacent contiguous charter schools during the 2008 to 2012 school years. Findings in this study suggest that students who transferred from traditional public schools to charter schools did not outperform academically as their corresponding counterparts in mathematics and reading, and had lower attendance rates, over the first three consecutive years of their attendance. In the succeeding 2 years, however, charter school students outperformed traditional students in both reading and mathematics, and had greater attendance rates, than students attending traditional public schools. The study also found that a student’s ethnic and socioeconomic background had a significant influence on student outcome measures
Academic achievement · Accountability · Attendance · Charter · Charter school · Ethnic group · Mathematics education · Medical education · Political science · Population · Reading (process · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · Demography · Medicine · Psychology · School Choice and Performance · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
Research Methods in Education
Charter Schools as Postmodern Paradox
Race, Charter Schools, and Conscious Capitalism
Choice without Equity
The Impacts of Charter Schools on Student Achievement
Achievement and Behavior in Charter Schools
School Choice in Suburbia
Public Funding for “Private” Education
All Choices Created Equal? The Role of Choice Sets in the Selection of Schools
District Segregation, Race Legislation, and Black Enrollment in Charter Schools
Starting Behind
Deconstructing School Choice
Achievement Gaps in Education
Charter School Policy, Implementation, and Diffusion Across the United States
Sociology and School Choice
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |