The charter school dust-up
Subtitle: examining the evidence on enrollment and achievement
By: Martin Carnoy, Rebecca Jacobsen, Lawrence Mishel, and Richard Rothstein.
Contributors: Jacobsen, Rebecca.; Mishel, Lawrence R.; Rothstein, Richard.
Publisher: Economic Policy Institute
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Washington, D.C; New York : Teachers College Press
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
Subjects: Charter schools -- United States; Charter schools -- United States -- Evaluation
Notes: "Published simultaneously by the Economic Policy Institute and Teachers College Press."--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-176)
Table of contents: title: The reaction to the AFT's report on charter school scores; title: Can the 'dust-up' lead to a new consensus in education research and policy?; title: Problems with the critiques of the NAEP report by charter school supporters; title: Are charter school students more disadvantaged than regular public school students, and does this explain charter schools' unexpectedly low NAEP scores?; title: What we know about relative charter and regular public school student achievement; title: The philosophy of charter schools; title: Conclusion; title: Appendix A. Using different standards for evaluating charter and regular public schools; title: Appendix B. Alternative presentations of NAEP charter school demographic data.