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CREDO = Hoover Institute

What is Arne duncan doing relying on a Hoover Institute report?  Here in Missouri, where CREDO on average claims charters out perform public schools you have to read the fine print to see the fallibility of the report.

CREDO compares charter school scores on state tests in Kansas City and St. Louis (the only urban districts in the state and the only places state law allows charters) to only the public schools closest to the homes of the charter school pupils.  From this CREDO declares that those public schools represent the scores the charter school students would have gotten had they attended public schools.  That slight of hand conveniently leaves out the fact that a high proportion of public school kids in Kansas City and St. Louis attend magnet or other speciality schools, schools that regularly outperform other schools in the district.  All those higher scoring schools are left out of the charter comparisons.  One school left out in Kansas City is Lincoln College Prep, just ranked 127th in the nation by Newsweek.

Proof of the Hoover connection to CREDO, here is the top return on Google:
http://credo.stanford.edu/down...

For recent proof, get the name of the president of CREDO and Google her name.  She often and recently IDs herself as associated with Hoover.

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by: ArthurKC @ Sun Jun 28, 2009 at 21:31:45 PM CDT