Sentences with phrase «american voucher students»

Findings: New York, NY — After three years, African American voucher students had combined reading and math scores 9 percentile points higher than the control group.

Findings: Dayton, OH — After two years, African American voucher students had combined reading and math scores 6.5 percentile points higher than the control group.

-- After two years, African - American voucher students had combined reading and math scores 6.5 percentile points higher than the control group.

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In 1951 the nation's scholarship program was opened up to qualifying students who wanted to attend private secondary schools; the government also began providing for children attending all elementary schools a minimal supplementary aid in a form similar to the tuition voucher plans presently under discussion in several American states.

The size and significance of voucher effects for African - Americans appear unchanged after controlling for the class sizes in the public and private schools students attended.

Americans» support for using public funds to pay for students to attend private schools apparently was growing even before the U.S. Supreme Court's June decision upholding the Cleveland voucher plan, findings from this year's Phi Delta Kappa / Gallup poll on public attitudes about education suggest.

In the D.C. voucher experiment, African - American students in grades 2 through 5 reportedly increased their scores by an average of 10 national percentile points in mathematics and 8.6 points in reading after two years of private schooling.

While the impact of vouchers on African American students was large, the impact of a voucher offer on the college enrollment rate of Hispanic students was found to be a statistically insignificant 2 percentage points.

A case filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida challenging the state's use of state - financed vouchers to send students to private schools is currently working its way through the courts.

• The offer of a voucher raised the proportion of African American students who enrolled in a private four - year college by 5 percentage points, an increase of 58 % as compared to the control group.

We followed students who participated in a voucher experiment in New York City in the 1990s, and found that African - American students who won a voucher were more likely to go to college than those who were not offered the opportunity.

The Commission, chaired by Dr. Paul Hill of the University of Washington, carefully reviewed the research on the impact of school choice on student achievement and included in its report the following statement: «The most rigorous school choice evaluations that used random assignment... found that academic gains from vouchers were largely limited to the African - American students in their studies.»

For African - American students, however, the receipt of a voucher made a substantial difference.

On many topics — including school vouchers, charter schools, digital learning, student and school accountability, common core standards, and teacher recruitment and retention policies — the views of Hispanic adults do not differ noticeably from those of either whites or African Americans.

The 2013 voucher study found that being offered a voucher had the effect of increasing college enrollment for African American students but not for other students.

After two years, African - American students who used a voucher to enroll in a private school scored 6.3 percentile points higher than African - American students who remained in public schools.

Vouchers have a moderately large, positive effect on the achievement of African - American students, but no discernible effect on the performance of students of other ethnicities.

It is reasonable to conclude that African - American students» initial gains in the New York City school voucher program were preserved but did not increase between year one and year two.

All in all, it seems that the voucher option was less critical for Hispanic students than for African American students.

Peterson and Matthew Chingos published a study in the Summer 2013 issue of Education Next, «The Impact of School Vouchers on College Enrollment,» that found that African - American students benefited the most from receiving vVouchers on College Enrollment,» that found that African - American students benefited the most from receiving vouchersvouchers.

The estimated impact of the voucher offer on college enrollment was roughly 5 percentage points greater for African American students than for Hispanic students, raising the question of why such a difference is observed between these two groups, both of which came from socioeconomically disadvantaged families.

The impact of the voucher offer we observe for African American students is also much larger than the impact of exposure to a highly effective teacher.

The original evaluation identified, after three years, large positive effects of the voucher opportunity on the test scores of African Americans but not on the test scores of students from other ethnic groups.

We find that vouchers have a moderately large, positive effect on the achievement of African - American students, but no discernible effect on the performance of students of other ethnicities.

One study published in the Summer 2013 issue of Education Next found that vouchers significantly boosted college enrollment rates for African American students.

These higher rates of educational attainment due to the Milwaukee voucher program represent improvements of 15 — 20 percent over the rates obtained by the comparison group of public - school students — nearly as large as those for the African American students in the New York City study.

Peterson and his co-author Matthew Chingos today released a study on the long - term impacts of vouchers on future college enrollment for African American students.

Paul Peterson sits down with the WSJ to discuss a new study on how vouchers help African American students.

We found that that college enrollments for low - income, African American students who used a voucher to go to private elementary school increased by24 percent.

In particular, African American students constitute more than 80 percent of all voucher users and of our analysis sample, white students approximately 10 percent of both samples, and Hispanic students less than 5 percent of either sample.

The study showed that African - American students who had won privately financed tuition vouchers in a 1997 lottery scored 5.5 national percentile points higher on...

African - American students who received vouchers to attend private schools in New York City derived no academic benefit from them, a Princeton University researcher has concluded.

Findings: New York, NY — African American and Hispanic students offered vouchers to attend private elementary schools in 1997 attended college within five years of expected high school graduation at a rate 4 percentage points higher than the control group and obtained a bachelor's degree at a rate 2.7 percentage points higher than the control group's rate (11.7 percent vs. 9.0 percent, respectively).

While policymakers and pundits hotly debate the merits of vouchers, national tests, and limiting class sizes, the American public is more interested in the qualifications of the people who work most closely with students, a survey shows.

The lawsuit — filed Nov. 14 in the Arizona Supreme Court on behalf of the parents by People for the American Way, a Washington - based advocacy group, and other groups — marks the first time a voucher program for special - needs students has been challenged in court, according to the Institute for Justice, an Arlington, Va. - based legal - advocacy group that will...

Given that no study has demonstrated that targeted urban voucher programs hurt students, and several studies have shown that they are especially beneficial to low - income African Americans, I am perfectly comfortable making the call.

See what research says about the relationship between vouchers and student achievement... Americans want consistent standards for students.

Polly Williams, the Wisconsin African American lawmaker behind the nation's first school voucher program, believed vouchers could help students of color in urban Milwaukee.

While giving students vouchers to attend private schools may benefit individual students, it will slowly kill our public schools, and leave the vast majority of Americans without an institution that is essential to turning young kids into good citizens.

The oldest school voucher program was created in Milwaukee in 1990 with a singular focus on African - American students living in poverty.

Further, the results have often been controversial — for example, Chingos and Peterson's 2012 finding that African American students who use vouchers are 24 percent more likely to attend college than African American students who do not led to a debate (summarized in Inside Higher Ed) between Chingos and Peterson and Goldrick - Rab over whether their findings actually demonstrate that vouchers improve students» college going.

Some of these uniquely American solutions — charter schools, private school vouchers, entrepreneurial innovations, grade - by - grade testing, diminished teachers» unions, and basing teachers» pay on how their students do on standardized tests — may be appealing on their surface.

Advocates for vouchers argue that private schools and more competition would offer a better education for American students.

As Peter Cookson and Kristina Berger observed in 2002, «Much of the charter movement is rooted in the same assumptions and philosophy that [voucher advocates John] Chubb and [Terry] Moe use to support their belief that the American public school system should be transformed into a market - based «economy» that forces autonomous, publicly funded schools to compete for students.»

A poll earlier this year showed more than 60 percent of Americans support charter schools and school vouchers that help students access private schools that might otherwise be out of reach.

Based on their analysis, they also found «a voucher offer increased the college - enrollment rate of African American students by 7 percentage points, an increase of 20 percent.

In New York, meanwhile, African - American students who received vouchers were more likely than their peers to enroll in college, but the effect didn't hold true for other groups, including Hispanic students.

a voucher offer increased the college - enrollment rate of African American students by 7 percentage points, an increase of 20 percent.

Krueger's study of the data showed no academic gains for African - American students in the voucher plan, reported Education Week.

In Milwaukee, which, the report's author reminded us, has the nation's oldest voucher program, African American students rank second to last in eighth grade math scores and last in reading scores, significantly worse than when the voucher program began.