emma
@emmabwaldron
https://reason.com/2023/11/27/charter-schools-get-less-funding-but-achieve-similar-test-scores-to-public-schools/
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Connor McCormick ☀️
@nor
confounding factors abound. E.g. this could be due to mere selection effects (parents that care about education pick a charter school) or socioeconomic factors like the network that charter parents have access to.
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Connor McCormick ☀️
@nor
do agree there should be more experimentation in education. But it's always important to be intellectually honest about the difference between P(x | y) and P(x | do(y))
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emma
@emmabwaldron
yes selection bias exists on parental level - parents motivated to get vouchers or send kids - and school level selecting best kids in the case of KIPP. but a market based approach to schools where i can select the school i want to the government to send $ to will only increase the standard of schooling.
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Connor McCormick ☀️
@nor
I can't remember the arguments against charter schools, do you know them?
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emma
@emmabwaldron
https://www.vox.com/politics/23689496/school-choice-education-savings-accounts-american-federation-children
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not parzival
@shoni.eth
i don’t even know what they are off hand
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emma
@emmabwaldron
yes. unfortunately the democratic party thinks they are ‘anti’ public schools. since they are an alternative to the traditional public school system. the dems have a massive teacher voting base so they don’t support any innovations in school types.
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