Sentences with phrase «effect on achievement today»

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Matt Chingos of Brookings and Guido Schwerdt of the University of Konstanz are out today with a new Program on Education Policy and Governance working paper that provides, to my knowledge, the first credible evidence on the effects of online courses on student achievement in K - 12 schools.

Although there were some small - scale random - assignment experiments of the effects of desegregation on test scores, most of what we know today concerns the relationship between a school outcome such as achievement on the one hand, and racial composition on the other.

The researchers estimate the statistical relationship between the size of the Catholic population in 1900 and the extent of private schooling today and use this estimate to isolate the causal effect of private school competition on contemporary student achievement.

It is more likely, however, that this enlargement of statewide achievement testing will only heighten the harmful effects that most of today's state - level achievement tests are having on children.