Charter Schools’ Enemies Block Black Success. Teachers unions are gaining in their fight to stop students and resources from moving toward what works.

Wall Street Journal ^ | June 18, 2020 | Thomas Sowell

[karpov]

For decades, there has been widespread anxiety over how, when or whether the educational test score gap between white and non-white youngsters could be closed. But that gap has already been closed by the Success Academy charter school network in New York City.

Their predominantly black and Hispanic students already pass tests in mathematics and English at a higher rate than any school district in the entire state. That includes predominantly white and Asian school districts where parental income is some multiple of what it is among Success Academy students.

New York’s charter school students are predominantly black and Hispanic, and live in low-income neighborhoods. In 2019, most students in the city’s public schools failed to pass the statewide tests in mathematics and English. But most of the city’s charter school students passed in both subjects.

Such charter school results undermine theories of genetic determinism, claims of cultural bias in the tests and assertions that racial “integration” is necessary for blacks to reach educational parity with whites.

Back In 2013, a higher percentage of the fifth-graders in a Harlem charter school passed the mathematics test than any other public school fifth-graders in the entire state of New York.

The success of New York City’s charter schools is not only a threat to educational dogmas. Competition from charter schools is an existential threat to traditional public schools in low-income minority communities, which tend to have even lower educational outcomes than traditional public schools as a whole.

In a number of low-income minority communities in New York City, charter school classes and classes in traditional public schools are held in the same buildings, serving the same communities. Some of the contrasts are almost unbelievable.

[karpov]

Sowell's next book, Charter Schools and Their Enemies, will be published on his 90th birthday!

[M-cubed]

Close them down!!!

its racist..Trying to make Blacks and Hispanics “WHITE”..../s

[Hambone 1934]

How can you control the poor if they are educated..WE NEED MORONS,says the dem party......

[EinNYC]

The kids in those charter schools have parents who are much more concerned about their education than most of the kids in regular public schools. It takes some effort to get their kids into those charter schools; parents who make that effort are also the parents far more likely to check their kids' homework, help them with said homework, make sure they do their projects and turn them in, etc. A lot of the parent(s) in public schools don't even KNOW if their kid is in school on any particular day, don't know it's report card time, have no idea if their kid is doing work in a class or walking the halls or robbing the corner store.

Charter schools cherry pick their students; the minute a student becomes either a behavioral problem or an academic failure, they are quietly kicked out the back door to public schools, who must take everyone. Thus, the charter schools seem to have a better graduation rate.

[M-cubed]

Cherry pick.......Do you mean kinda like Harvard or Yale or any other so called “elite college”?

[tbw2]

Glad they’re covering this.

[bitt]

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[gogeo]

This is how you fix the disparity in results. Dumb down the curriculum.

[wintertime]

Government schooling is a *Big*Fat*Pimple*!

It needs to be squeezed from every side.

[wintertime]

Re: “ parents who make that effort are also the parents far more likely to check their kids’ homework, help them with said homework, make sure they do their projects and turn them in, etc.”
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Sounds like homeschooling to me.

Gee! Maybe I am right. **ALL** academically successful children are homeschooled. This is true even if they are institutionalized for their schooling.