Sentences with phrase «impact on school choice»

Parent activist Megan Wolf, who testified about the bill during the Oct. 3 hearing at the State House, said the filing of the new enrollment policy took many by surprise and occurs while the public remains largely in the dark on details such as how the proposed unified enrollment process would work — including its impact on school choice, equitable access and the BPS budget.

The outcome of the Florida case will have a resounding impact on school choice across the nation as the state has served as model for other programs, and continues to be a leader in choice options.

If state policymakers want to dampen the regressive distributional effects of the 529 expansion, or enhance its impact on school choice, or both, what options do they have?

Digital relevance is impacting on school choice.

Not exact matches

I think it is important to point out that this isn't just an issue for middle class families who care deeply about their child's diet and are able to provide abundant healthy food choices but school menus have great impact on many, many poor children who, through no fault of their own and often with no agency to change the situation, end up being pawns in the lunch tray wars.

The choices you make about your own schooling will have a great impact on what your daughter sees as her own choices.

But at least some schools are finding children will eat healthier meals when offered a choice and take nutrition to heart if they are taught about the positive impacts on their bodies.

Indeed, I find little impact either positive or negative of winning a school - choice lottery on criminal activity for the 80 percent of students outside of this group.

Overall, I find that winning the lottery to attend a first - choice school has a large impact on crime for high - risk youth.

The positive impacts on reading achievement observed for voucher users therefore reflect the incremental effect of adding private school choice through the OSP to the existing schooling options for low - income D.C. families.

The value given to art and design in schools and colleges is impacting on choice and provision of art and design qualifications offered for both higher and lower ability students

In three new articles published in Education Next, researchers with the Education Research Alliance for New Orleans (ERA - New Orleans) at Tulane University, directed by professor of economics, Douglas Harris, show the impact of the reforms on student performance; consider to what degree the city's system of school choice provides a variety of distinct options for families; and take a careful look at the city's unique centralized enrollment system.

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.

However, others expressed skepticism about what I shall call the Overregulation Theory, and proposed alternative explanations for the LSP's poor results, while a few more raised concerns about the impact of a more free - market school choice system on equity.

The three studies find neutral to positive impacts of private school choice on college enrollment and graduation, but with some variation:

In this episode of the podcast, Paul talks with Marty West about his new working paper on the impact of school choice on non-cognitive skills.

Meanwhile, when it comes to statewide private - school choice initiatives, the impacts on student outcomes are mixed and experts disagree on the best path forward.

Given the impact of educational attainment on a variety of economic and social outcomes, a positive result could have significant implications for the value of school - choice programs that include charter high schools.

Peterson also points to research by Harvard University's Martin West and German economist Ludger Woessmann, who examined the impact of school choice on the performance of 15 - year - old students in 29 industrialized countries and «discovered that the greater the competition between the public and private sector, the better all students do in math, science and reading.»

The studies were conducted as a partnership with the School Choice Demonstration Project at the University of Arkansas and look at the impact of the vouchers on student achievement and non-cognitive skills, on racial segregation, and on students attending nearby public schools (competitive effects).

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.»

Following our workshops schools report the positive impact on students associated with improved dietary consumption and lifestyle choices;

A study by Matthew M. Chingos and Paul E. Peterson on the long - term impact of school vouchers on college enrollment and graduation won the 2016 Association for Education Finance and Policy (AEFP) Prize awarded for Best Academic Paper on School Choice and Rschool vouchers on college enrollment and graduation won the 2016 Association for Education Finance and Policy (AEFP) Prize awarded for Best Academic Paper on School Choice and RSchool Choice and Reform.

Multiple evaluations, by organizations ranging from the Manhattan Institute to the Urban League, have found the choice programs to have had a positive impact on Florida public schools.

The market - and choice - oriented policies, which were imposed on schools «in need of improvement,» have consumed resources and local administrative time but have small impacts and are not being seriously evaluated.

Despite the numbers, the school choice programs are not large enough to have had more than a limited statewide impact on the millions of students attending Florida's public schools.

Using the Regulatory Impact Scale I created, I show (1) the impact of a state's private school regulations before any school choice program existed; (2) the immediate regulatory impact that comes with the creation of initial regulations for a school choice program; (3) the impact of changes and additions to the regulations for a school choice program as policymakers revisit school choice programs after their first year of operation; (4) the total regulatory impact the school choice program has had on participating private schools; and (5) the total regulatory impact of all regulations, both before and during school choice programs, on private scImpact Scale I created, I show (1) the impact of a state's private school regulations before any school choice program existed; (2) the immediate regulatory impact that comes with the creation of initial regulations for a school choice program; (3) the impact of changes and additions to the regulations for a school choice program as policymakers revisit school choice programs after their first year of operation; (4) the total regulatory impact the school choice program has had on participating private schools; and (5) the total regulatory impact of all regulations, both before and during school choice programs, on private scimpact of a state's private school regulations before any school choice program existed; (2) the immediate regulatory impact that comes with the creation of initial regulations for a school choice program; (3) the impact of changes and additions to the regulations for a school choice program as policymakers revisit school choice programs after their first year of operation; (4) the total regulatory impact the school choice program has had on participating private schools; and (5) the total regulatory impact of all regulations, both before and during school choice programs, on private scimpact that comes with the creation of initial regulations for a school choice program; (3) the impact of changes and additions to the regulations for a school choice program as policymakers revisit school choice programs after their first year of operation; (4) the total regulatory impact the school choice program has had on participating private schools; and (5) the total regulatory impact of all regulations, both before and during school choice programs, on private scimpact of changes and additions to the regulations for a school choice program as policymakers revisit school choice programs after their first year of operation; (4) the total regulatory impact the school choice program has had on participating private schools; and (5) the total regulatory impact of all regulations, both before and during school choice programs, on private scimpact the school choice program has had on participating private schools; and (5) the total regulatory impact of all regulations, both before and during school choice programs, on private scimpact of all regulations, both before and during school choice programs, on private schools.

RH: Given how polarizing the president is, what impact has Trump had on support for private - school choice?

But the results of this investigation nonetheless advance our understanding of the effects of school choice policies by providing the first experimentally generated information on the long - term impact of a voucher intervention.

Florida's voucher program for students in the lowest - rated public schools is unconstitutional, the state supreme court ruled last week in a 5 - 2 decision that friends and foes of private school choice are scrutinizing for its potential impact on voucher debates nationwide.

Taken as a whole, information about local school rankings has a less substantial impact on public thinking about teacher policy than it has on thinking about school choice policies.

It is simply incorrect to claim, as the AEI authors did, that «a school choice program's impact on test scores is a weak predictor of its impacts on longer - term outcomes.»

Debates about school choice policies often focus on their impacts on student achievement, typically as measured by standardized tests.

With high impact, brightly coloured packaging, it appeals to brand - savvy youngsters who will often simply walk out the door and buy something on the high street if they don't like the choice in the school canteen.

So is it true, as Hitt, McShane, and Wolf claim, that «a school choice program's impact on test scores is a weak predictor of its impacts on longer - term outcomes»?

What impact will privatization and choice have on public schools?

To the extent that better information improves the match between families and schools or leads to pressure on schools to increase measured achievement, this effect can augment the impacts of school - choice policies.

As the authors put it, «A school choice program's impact on test scores is a weak predictor of its impacts on longer - term outcomes.»

A new paper argues that a school choice program's impact on test scores is a weak predictor of its impacts on longer - term outcomes.

After running a variety of analyses, Hitt, McShane, and Wolf concluded that «A school choice program's impact on test scores is a weak predictor of its impacts on longer - term outcomes.»

If we focus only on the true school choice programs — private school choice, open enrollment, charter schools, STEM schools, and small schools of choice — and we look at the direction of the impacts (positive or negative) regardless of their statistical significance, we find a high degree of alignment between achievement and attainment outcomes.

By taking into account factors such as where a child lives and their attainment at school, the research provides a unique analysis of how educational choices made at the age of 16 can have a deep impact on a child's future career and earnings.

The impacts of school choice programs on test score gains and longer term outcomes are not really as out of sync as they may first appear.

The report reflects the impact of social media on children's book choices, with Zoella's 10 million YouTube subscribers helping Girl Online to become the most popular book in the report from Renaissance Learning, which looks in detail at the reading habits of 725,369 children from 3,306 UK schools.

All week I've been digging into a recent AEI paper that reviews the research literature on short - term test - score impacts and long - term student outcomes for school choice programs.

If charter schools were having no impact on student achievement, if such schools were merely selecting better students, then it would be an easy choice to vote against the charter cap increase.

As policymakers consider the design, expansion, or reform of private school choice programs, they should carefully examine not just a program's likely impact on short - term metrics such as test scores, but also how it might shape long - term outcomes, including college enrollment and graduation.

They looked at a bunch of school choices studies and tried to see if a school's impact on student test scores was connected to its impact on student life outcomes.

Their conclusion: «at least for school choice programs, there is a weak relationship between impacts on test scores and later - life outcomes.»

Abstract: This article analyzes the impact of classroom characteristics and opportunity wages on four possible labor market choices of teachers in Florida: remaining at their present school, switching schools within a school district, changing school districts, and leaving teaching.