Not exact matches
• Joshua M. Cowen, «
School Choice as a Latent Variable: Estimating «Complier
Average Causal Effect» of Vouchers in Charlotte,» Policy
Studies Journal, May 2008.
Seven of the eight previous
studies using similar definitions of segregation found that, on
average, students move from more segregated to less segregated
schools as a result of
school choice.
On
average during our
study period, about 21 percent of
schools in the 39 states with this information had NCLB - induced
choice, with considerable variation across areas and over time.
Danish Shakeel, Kaitlin Anderson, and I conducted a meta - analysis of the 16 experimental
studies, finding that the private -
school -
choice programs evaluated in the United States have increased student achievement by an
average of.13 standard deviations in reading by the fourth year after the
study started.
Deming's
study found that «winning a
school -
choice lottery reduces the
average social cost of the crimes committed by middle
school students by $ 7,843, or 63 percent.
So, it is frustrating to discover within this survey, posted on the website of the
School Choice Campaign, a flagship project of the Centre for Civil Society to bring about reforms in
schools in India, a high rate of attrition among teachers in the developing world, which
averages about 19 % across the countries
studied.
It does so despite the preponderance of evidence that, as the authors of one educational
study from 2002 wrote, «
school choice, on
average, does not produce the equity and social justice that proponents spin.»
First,
studies of worldwide scope have found
school choice produces greater educational achievement on
average.