Sentences with phrase «opportunity scholarship program evaluation»

As with the DC Opportunity Scholarship Program evaluation, President Obama's very own Department of Education assigned this study its highest rating for scientific rigor.

As with the DC Opportunity Scholarship Program evaluation, President Obama's very own Department of Educationassigned this study its highest rating for scientific rigor.

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An interview with Patrick Wolf about his evaluation of the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program and about its likely future is available here.

Patrick J. Wolf is professor of education reform at the University of Arkansas and principal investigator of the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program Impact Evaluation.

The IES released the third - year impact evaluation of the Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP) in April 2009.

The experimental evaluation of the District of Columbia Opportunity Scholarship Program is continuing into its fourth and final year of studying the impacts on students and parents.

Conclusions School voucher initiatives such as the District of Columbia Opportunity Scholarship Program will remain politically controversial in spite of rigorous evaluations such as this one, showing that parents and students benefited in some ways from the pProgram will remain politically controversial in spite of rigorous evaluations such as this one, showing that parents and students benefited in some ways from the programprogram.

School vouchers provide funds to parents to enable them to enroll their children in private schools and, as a result, are one of the most controversial education reforms in the United States (to see an interview with Patrick Wolf about his evaluation of the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program and about its likely future please click here).

In the experimental evaluation of the initial DC Opportunity Scholarship Program that I led from 2004 to 2011, the number of students in testing grades dropped substantially from year 3 to year 4, leading to a much noisier estimate of the reading impacts of the program, which were positive but just missed being statistically significant with 95 % confProgram that I led from 2004 to 2011, the number of students in testing grades dropped substantially from year 3 to year 4, leading to a much noisier estimate of the reading impacts of the program, which were positive but just missed being statistically significant with 95 % confprogram, which were positive but just missed being statistically significant with 95 % confidence.

The federal government's official evaluation of the Washington, D.C., Opportunity Scholarship Program points to a common pattern that has emerged amid these mixed results.

A 2010 evaluation of the District of Columbia Opportunity Scholarship Program that I led for the U.S. Department of Educationfound that students offered private - school choice by winning a random lottery graduated from high school at the rate of 82 percent, compared with 70 percent for the control group.

Patrick Wolf talks with Education Next about his «gold standard» evaluation of the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program and about the likely future of that pProgram and about the likely future of that programprogram.

Governor Corbett and Secretary of Education Ron Tomalis outlined four key provisions of their plan: «opportunity scholarships, expanding the Educational Improvement Tax Credits program, improved charter school quality and accountability, and more robust and comprehensive educator evaluations.»

The Governor, a former teacher, earlier today introduced his ambitious education reform plan, which will expand school choice in the state via opportunity scholarships, expand the popular Educational Improvement Tax Credit (EITC) Program, establish standards and enforcements for charter schools and peg student achievement to teacher evaluations — all without raising state taxes.

And this attainment benefit is consistent with the findings of the U.S. Department of Education's official evaluation of the DC Opportunity Scholarship voucher program, led by my colleague Patrick Wolf, which found:

A 2010 evaluation of the District of Columbia Opportunity Scholarship Program that I led for the U.S. Department of Education found that students offered private - school choice by winning a random lottery graduated from high school at the rate of 82 percent, compared with 70 percent for the control group.

The positive findings in the Education Department's recent evaluation of the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship program provide more evidence that high - quality private and parochial schools can have invaluable benefits for low - income, minority students.

Evaluation of the DC opportunity scholarship program: final report,» National Center for Education Evaluation, Institute for Education Sciences Report 2010 - 4018

U.S. Department of Education Evaluation of the DC Opportunity Scholarship Program: Final Report (2010)

Forster noted that at the time of his report there had been twelve random assignment studies of school choice programs, including the evaluation of the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship program mentioned above.

U.S. Department of Education Evaluation of the DC Opportunity Scholarship Program: An Early Look at Applicants and Participating Schools Under the SOAR Act (2014)

In 2010, an evaluation of the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program — based upon a random assignment analysis, i.e. «the gold standard» — found that vouchers in D.C. «raised students» probability of completing high school by 12 percentage points overall.»

This paper focuses on the most recent evaluation of the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program, which is the only voucher program funded and authorized by federal law and uses a randomized control trial deProgram, which is the only voucher program funded and authorized by federal law and uses a randomized control trial deprogram funded and authorized by federal law and uses a randomized control trial design.29

25 «Evaluation of the DC Opportunity Scholarship Program,» National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, U.S. Department of Education, June, 2010.

Report at 34; US Dep» t of Educ., Evaluation of the DC Opportunity Scholarship Program: Impacts After Three Years 34 (March 2009)(2009 US Dep» t of Educ.