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Using School Choice Lotteries to Test Measures of School Effectiveness.»
Not exact matches
The study examines the impact of winning a
school choice lottery on dropout rates and crime for groups of students with different propensities to commit crimes,
using an index of crime risk that includes test scores, demographics, behavior, and neighborhood characteristics to identify the highest - risk group.
Experimental evaluations take the complete population of students who are eligible for a
choice program and motivated to
use it, then employ a
lottery to randomly assign some students to receive a
school -
choice voucher or scholarship and the rest to serve in the experimental control group.
To ensure equity of access,
choice schools should not be allowed to
use their own admissions criteria but should be required to take all applicants or admit by
lottery.
The best of this work has taken advantage of the
lottery - based admissions processes
used by many
school -
choice programs, enabling researchers to draw far stronger conclusions about how
schools affect student outcomes than the methods Coleman employed, which relied on simple regression techniques to adjust for differences in students» family background.
I therefore want to compare the
choice students, the students who
used a scholarship to attend private
school, with the control and noncomplying students, the two groups who entered the
lottery but ultimately stayed in public
schools.
State charter -
school laws, likewise, could set aside a certain proportion of charter -
school funds — say, 25 percent — for
schools that are diverse by design,
using a weighted
lottery to ensure that
school choice promotes socioeconomic diversity.
This could be accomplished by
using principles of behavioral economics to nudge applicants towards particular
schools at the time of
choice, and through
school lotteries that provide extra points for applicants from underrepresented groups.
Because charter
schools are
schools of
choice and can not control who enter their
lotteries, we should focus oversight on making sure that they
use good faith efforts to enroll and retain high - need students.
For charter
schools, many have a
lottery system where other
schools that offer a different
choice have a
lottery and voucher system that's
used.