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Winters, Marcus A. – Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, 2010
A recent review of data provided by the New York City Department of Education reveals that African-American charter school students were 60 percent more likely than their public school counterparts to earn a seat in one of New York City's specialized high schools in 2009. For Hispanics, the rate of acceptance was twice as high for charter school…
Descriptors: High Schools, Charter Schools, Reputation, Standardized Tests
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Baker, David P. – Brookings Papers on Education Policy, 2003
International comparisons of American education have become so popular and widespread in the reform debates of the last several decades that many of the current centerpieces of the American reform movement were shaped through evidence and speculation on what other more educationally successful nations were doing that the U.S. was not. The current…
Descriptors: High Schools, Reputation, Comparative Analysis, Global Approach