Jersey Jazzman: Once Again: The FACTS On Newark, Charters, and Spending

Jersey Jazzman: Once Again: The FACTS On Newark, Charters, and Spending:

Once Again: The FACTS On Newark, Charters, and Spending

 I see we have to go over this once again. Fine:


- TEAM Academy Charter School, the Newark branch of the nation charter chain KIPP, outscored the Montclair School District one year in one grade on one test -- by 0.2 scale score points.

The next year, that same cohort of students, who were now in Grade 4, showed substantially different results on the same test; the Montclair average was now substantially higher than TEAM/KIPP's.

I don't point this out to suggest either that Montclair's schools are superior, or that TEAM/KIPP's schools are inferior. Without adequately controlling for at least the observed variations in each district's populations (and acknowledging that there are likely many unobserved variations), any comparison between the two systems is utterly pointless.

My point here is that facile, a-contextual, cherry-picked factoids like these are completely meaningless, and that people who bring them up time and again show themselves to be - See more at: http://jerseyjazzman.blogspot.com/2016/01/once-again-facts-on-newark-charters-and.html#sthash.8CLj30DS.dpuf