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Education Research Report: Charter Schools, Traditional Public Schools Similarly Segregated

Education Research Report: Charter Schools, Traditional Public Schools Similarly Segregated


Charter Schools, Traditional Public Schools Similarly Segregated

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Flawed comparisons lead Civil Rights Project to unwarranted conclusions


New research conducted by Gary Ritter and associates at the University of Arkansas finds that the charter sector and the traditional public-school sector are not very different in the level of segregation experienced by students. The research is published in “A Closer Look at Charter Schools and Segregation,” which will appear in the Summer 2010 issue of Education Next and is now available online.

The new findings contradict the conclusions drawn by the authors of a study released in January 2010 by the UCLA-based Civil Rights Project (CRP). The authors of the CRP study, “Choice without Equity,” concluded that charter schools are much more segregated than traditional public schools. Ritter finds that “when examined more appropriately, the data actually reveal small differences in the level of overall segregation between the

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