Sentences with phrase «impacts of school choice»

The positive impacts of school choice are especially strong for students from low - income families and students of color.

This collection of briefs from the National Education Policy Center examines important policy issues (including the impacts of school choice and housing policy on school segregation), and identifies policies with a strong research base that can be used to combat identified problems.

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.

High - risk middle - and high - school students who transfer to their preferred school are less likely to be arrested and spend less time incarcerated, pointing to impact of school choice

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.

To many in the media, both studies sound like they are estimating the effectiveness of charter schools or maybe even the impact of school choice — so shouldn't the answer be the same?

Education scholars examine the impact of school choice in a «post-desegregation era» in a series of articles published in the May issue of the Peabody Journal of Education.

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 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.»

His current research topics include teacher pension policy, fiscal impact of school choice, longitudinal analysis of student achievement, and methodologies for school funding estimation.

Another study looked at the impact of school choice on families rather than just students.

We present experimental evidence on the impact of a school choice program in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh (AP) that provided students with a voucher to finance attending a private school of

The national report compiles results from rigorous empirical studies that examine the academic outcomes of school choice students, the academic effect of competition on public schools, the fiscal impact of school choice on taxpayers and government, racial segregation in schools and the effect of school choice on civic values and practices.

Osborne also frets about the impact of school choice policies on the students «left» behind at their assigned district schools, but the research literature shows that they benefit as well.

Good Morning Check out this video out of Indiana — Indy Star produced a touching video about a family's decision to use an Indiana voucher that shows the real - world impact of school choice: http://indy.st/2nZ4Kr5 Have a great weekend!

These findings are consistent with other research exploring the impact of school choice programs on a wide variety of outcomes.

To demonstrate the potential impact of school choice on state budgets, this paper draws from legislative and independent evaluations of the fiscal effects of such programs in the states that have enacted or are contemplating enacting them.

This paper uses evidence from Durham, North Carolina to examine the impact of school choice on racial and class - based segregation across schools.

Results based on simple comparisons like this are constantly held in the media as evidence of the positive impact of school choice.

To the DeVos», these failures have been not only personally humiliating, but have limited the impact of school choice provisions they have worked so hard to implement in the state.

Changing funding practices as suggested above might increase the impact of school choice on traditional schools — causing them to lose money but by the same token prodding them to take more forceful actions to attract families, improve instruction, and control costs.

To identify the long - term benefits of school choice, Harvard's Martin West and German economist Ludger Woessmann examined the impact of school choice on the performance of 15 - year - old students in 29 industrialized countries.

Forster has conducted empirical studies on the impact of school choice programs in Milwaukee, Ohio, Florida and Texas, as well as national empirical studies comparing public and private schools in terms of working conditions for teachers, ethnic segregation and teacher and staff misconduct.

Not exact matches

The American chefs and foodservice operators that are invited and attend this event each year — drawn from various high - volume sectors including hotels and resorts, chain restaurants, universities, schools and hospital foodservice — collectively shape the menus that impact the daily food choices for tens of millions of Americans.

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.

But there's another important dimension to school food that few, if any, school nutrition directors currently take into account: the environmental impact of their menu choices.

«They are also penalised by the negative culture in too many schools towards requests for flexible working and the punitive financial impact of accessing their pension before 68 mean teachers have little choice but to work until they drop.»

Senior author Francine Laden, ScD, Professor in the Departments of Environmental Health and Epidemiology at Harvard Chan School, added, «We are currently working to determine if individuals who make healthier lifestyle choices are less susceptible to the adverse impacts of air pollution, and to determine if similar patterns of susceptibility are seen in men.»

«School choice policies may impact segregation and diversity of public schools.»

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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.

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.

The impacts persist beyond the initial years of school enrollment, seven years after the school - choice lottery was held.

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:

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.

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).

High School Graduation Impacts versus ELA Impacts: Number of Estimates by Sign for School Choice Programs Only

College Graduation Impacts versus Math Impacts: Number of Estimates by Sign and Statistical Significance for School Choice Programs Only

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.

Last week, I argued that Hitt, McShane, and Wolf erred in including programs in their review of «school choice» studies that were only incidentally related to school choice or that have idiosyncratic designs that would lead one to expect a mismatch between test score gains and long - term impacts (early college high schools, selective enrollment high schools, and career and technical education initiatives).

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?

College Graduation Impacts versus ELA Impacts: Number of Estimates by Sign and Statistical Significance for School Choice Programs Only

College Enrollment Impacts versus Math Impacts: Number of Estimates by Sign and Statistical Significance for School Choice Programs Only

High School Graduation Impacts versus Math Impacts: Number of Estimates by Sign for School Choice Programs Only

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.

Or consider private school choice mechanisms like voucher and tax credit scholarship programs: Despite the positive impacts of these programs, only eleven of our thirty cities are located in states where they are legal.