Kids in Ohio’s online charter schools fall way behind their peers in traditional schools and learn almost nothing at all in online math classes, a national report by Stanford University’s Center for Research of Educational Outcomes (CREDO) has found.
The report released this afternoon looks at how different teaching and parental involvement practices work at virtual schools in 17 states and in Washington, D.C.
It also calculates how much more or less students learn at e-schools, by comparing students at traditional public schools.
That’s the same method CREDO used in last year’s assessment of Ohio’s entire charter school sector. CREDO found last December that students learn less in Ohio charter schools than in traditional districts – the equivalent of 36 days of learning in math and 14 days in reading.
The numbers are even worse for students in online schools in Ohio and nationally, CREDO reported today.
Nationally, students learned the equivalent of 72 days of school less in reading and 180 days less in math, each school year, CREDO found.
For Ohio, online students learned 79 days less material in reading than peers in traditional schools and 144 less days in math, CREDO found.
Those findings place Ohio’s online charter schools in the middle of the national pack in terms of performance.
Losing the equivalent of 180 days of learning is essentially the same as skipping school all year, said James (Lynn) Woodworth, a research analyst for CREDO.
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