The Other Lottery Are Philanthropists Backing the Best Charter Schools? Policy Analysis no 677 edition by Andrew J Coulson Politics Social Sciences eBooks
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The central problem confronting education systems around the world is not that we lack models of excellence; it is our inability to routinely replicate those models. In other fields, we take for granted an endless cycle of innovation and productivity growth that continually makes products and services better, more affordable, or both. That cycle has not manifested itself in education. Brilliant teachers and high-performing schools can be found in every state and nation, but, like floating candles, they flicker in isolation, failing to touch off a larger blaze.
Over the past decade, one of the most prominent strategies for overcoming this problem has been for philanthropists to partner with the best charter schools in an attempt to bring them to scale. The present study seeks an empirical answer to the question Is that strategy working — are the highest-performing charters attracting the most funding?
We search for the answer in California, the state with the largest number of charter schools and the largest number of charter school networks (groups of two or more schools following the same pedagogical model or founded, overseen, or operated by the same person or group).
Specifically, we compare the amount of philanthropic funding received by these networks with their performance on state-administered and Advanced Placement tests. The results are discouraging. There is effectively no correlation between grant funding and charter network performance, after controlling for individual student characteristics and peer effects, and addressing the problem of selection bias.
For example, the three highest-performing charter school networks perform dramatically above the level of conventional public schools on the California Standards Tests, but rank 21st, 27th, and 39th in terms of the grant funding they have received, out of 68 charter networks. The AP results are worse; the correlations between charter networks' AP performance and their grant funding are negative, though negligible in magnitude.
The top-performing charter networks, like top-ranked American Indian charter schools, play a transformative role in children's educational and career prospects, and lay bare the failure of our conventional educational arrangements to fulfill each child's potential. We should indeed strive to preserve and replicate them. But philanthropy has not proven to be a reliable, systematic mechanism for accomplishing that goal in California, which has enjoyed more earnest and extensive efforts in this regard than perhaps any other state.
The Other Lottery Are Philanthropists Backing the Best Charter Schools? Policy Analysis no 677 edition by Andrew J Coulson Politics Social Sciences eBooks
As a big Coulson fan since his 1999 "Market Education" I grabbed this report. You should too, because Coulson says that he will address a little-studied aspect of education: "Is the strategy of philanthropic partnering for scaling up the best charter networks working?" That is the question he poses at the outset.However, he gets side-tracked and instead accumulates a great deal of data that address a different question which is, "Are the philanthropists picking the best networks to support?"
So we are left with an implied conclusion that he cannot answer his question because his initial premise was wrong. He cannot tell if the strategy to pour support into the best networks is working if the funding is actually going to second- and third-rate networks.
He states, "There is effectively no correlation between [the amount of] grant funding [to a network] and charter network performance..."
So he is unable to answer his initial question which presumed that the good networks got the most funds which would allow him to test if the scale-up strategy was working or not.
However, his paper is a wealth of good information about charter performance studies. He also compares network charters to one-off charters to traditional schools. He also discusses the very wide performance range across network charters.
I heard a presentation by O'Neil of the Renaissance Group about an interesting study they did in 2009 comparing non-profit networks to for-profit networks. There was virtually no difference in academic results between charters operated by the two sets of mangers, but the costs of the non-profits were about $2,000 per student per year higher.
Coulson did not include for-profit networks in his study, but it would be interesting to compare his best non-profits networks to the best for-profits.
As I recall, O'Neil's conclusion was that replicating non-profit network schools was (a) non productive because they were no better than district schools and (b) couldn't be scaled up anyway because the extra funding required could not be sustained on a broad scale.
I guess the main take-away from Coulson's report is that the philanthropists cannot identify the best networks and their selection criteria are flawed - a totally unsurprising finding.
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The Other Lottery Are Philanthropists Backing the Best Charter Schools? Policy Analysis no 677 edition by Andrew J Coulson Politics Social Sciences eBooks Reviews
As a big Coulson fan since his 1999 "Market Education" I grabbed this report. You should too, because Coulson says that he will address a little-studied aspect of education "Is the strategy of philanthropic partnering for scaling up the best charter networks working?" That is the question he poses at the outset.
However, he gets side-tracked and instead accumulates a great deal of data that address a different question which is, "Are the philanthropists picking the best networks to support?"
So we are left with an implied conclusion that he cannot answer his question because his initial premise was wrong. He cannot tell if the strategy to pour support into the best networks is working if the funding is actually going to second- and third-rate networks.
He states, "There is effectively no correlation between [the amount of] grant funding [to a network] and charter network performance..."
So he is unable to answer his initial question which presumed that the good networks got the most funds which would allow him to test if the scale-up strategy was working or not.
However, his paper is a wealth of good information about charter performance studies. He also compares network charters to one-off charters to traditional schools. He also discusses the very wide performance range across network charters.
I heard a presentation by O'Neil of the Renaissance Group about an interesting study they did in 2009 comparing non-profit networks to for-profit networks. There was virtually no difference in academic results between charters operated by the two sets of mangers, but the costs of the non-profits were about $2,000 per student per year higher.
Coulson did not include for-profit networks in his study, but it would be interesting to compare his best non-profits networks to the best for-profits.
As I recall, O'Neil's conclusion was that replicating non-profit network schools was (a) non productive because they were no better than district schools and (b) couldn't be scaled up anyway because the extra funding required could not be sustained on a broad scale.
I guess the main take-away from Coulson's report is that the philanthropists cannot identify the best networks and their selection criteria are flawed - a totally unsurprising finding.
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