Source: Show-Me Institute
by Cory Koedel
“The 74’s Bright Spots project identifies public schools across the country that are beating the odds in reading. Specifically, ‘Bright Spot’ schools have literacy rates that are significantly higher than what is predicted based on their student poverty rates. In other words, these schools are outperforming expectations in terms of teaching kids to read. The project is impressive in both scope and purpose. Using data from 41,883 schools across 10,414 districts in all 50 states and Washington, D.C., it shines a light on excelling schools. Too often, education debates fixate on failure. Highlighting success—and learning from it—is just as important. While there are surely all kinds of interesting tidbits in the data, in this post I want to focus on the disproportionate representation of charter schools among Bright Spots. Charter schools make up seven percent of The 74’s national sample, but 11 percent of schools identified as Bright Spots.” (03/05/26)
https://showmeinstitute.org/article/education/charter-schools-are-more-likely-to-be-bright-spots/