An exception proving the rule?

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Well, at least one study seems to support the Education President's and Rod ("The NEA is a terrorist organization") Paige's contention that if we could only eviscerate the public education system in the US, all our problems would be solved.

Students who attend multi-grade charter high schools in Chicago appear more likely to graduate and to enroll in college than their counterparts in traditional public high schools, a study released on Wednesday found ...

But researchers did not draw conclusions about what, if anything, the charter schools might do better than traditional public schools to achieve the higher graduation and college-enrollment rates.

In other words, it's unknown how these circumstances came about. It may well be that a coincidental socioeconomic factor is at work here, but our Andover-educated president is sure to give himself a big pat on the back for these results.