Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Selective report memory?

We’ve written plenty about charter schools, including coverage of recent reports about the superior performance of charter schools in New York City and Boston.

But, at least one public school education type isn’t reading us.

Check out this new opinion piece in the Herald-Leader from Jefferson County Public Schools' Robert Rodosky.

Rodosky should do wider reading including things like this first before sounding off about reports from groups like Stanford’s CREDO that have run into credibility problems of their own.

Right now, the CREDO crowd is scrambling to recover credibility after their EARLIER report, the one Rodosky cites, wound up in conflict with their NEWER report on New York City Charters.

That newer CREDO report shows the same thing that a researcher Rodosky criticizes does: charter schools in the Big Apple outperform.

Someone tell Rodosky.

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