Seattle, WA - Supporters and critics alike continue to argue about whether charter schools are making a positive difference in the education of America's children. The answer, according to a new analysis of the most rigorous studies conducted to date, is a measured 'yes' in the lower grades.
Julian Betts
Julian Betts
Professor, Dept. of Economics, University of California, San Diego
http://economics.ucsd.edu/about/Profile.aspx?pid=25
Julian R. Betts is professor and former chair of economics at the University of California, San Diego, where he is Executive Director of the San Diego Education Research Alliance (sandera.ucsd.edu). He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and an adjunct fellow and a Bren fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California.
Dr. Betts has written extensively on the link between student outcomes and measures of school spending, and he has studied the role that school choice, educational standards, accountability, and teacher qualifications play in student achievement. He has served on three National Academy of Sciences panels, the Consensus Panel of the National Charter School Research Project, and various advisory groups for the U.S. Department of Education. He is also principal investigator for the federally mandated National Evaluation of Magnet Schools.
He holds a Ph.D. in economics from Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada and an M.Phil. degree in Economics from Oxford University
| 10/2011 |
BRIEF - Charter Schools and Achievement
This brief summarizes findings from The Effect of Charter Schools on Student Achievement: a Meta-Analysis of the Literature, a detailed assessment of the literature on student achievement in charter schools. Economists Julian Betts and Emily Tang analyzed studies of charter school... |
| 10/2011 |
The Effect of Charter Schools on Student Achievement: A Meta-Analysis of the Literature
Charter schools are largely viewed as a major innovation in the public school landscape, as they receive more independence from state laws and regulations than do traditional public schools, and are therefore... |
| 04/2010 |
Taking Measure of Charter Schools: Better Assessments, Better Policymaking, Better Schools
The book is available for purchase from Rowman & Littlefield Education. Charter schools offer something that public school systems, parents, and teachers need: a way to... |
| 12/2008 |
Value-Added and Experimental Studies of the Effect of Charter Schools on Student Achievement: A Literature Review
While the volume of research on charter school achievement has mushroomed in the last five years, most of these studies have used relatively unsophisticated snapshots of... |
| 12/2008 |
Ch. 1 - Charter Schools and Student Achievement: A Review of the Evidence (HFR '08)
In this chapter, Julian Betts and Y. Emily Tang show us that there is strong evidence that charter schools are outperforming other public schools in many ways. But their analysis of existing charter school... |
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May 12 2010
Seattle, WA - Despite many assertions to the contrary, we are far from having unambiguous evidence on charter school performance. Study results have been subject to withering criticism, and for good reason.