Sentences with phrase «negative effects on student achievement in»

The National Bureau for Economic Research (NBER) released in December 2015 the first nationally recognized random assignment study to ever demonstrate that a school voucher program — LSP — had a negative effect on student achievement in its first year.

The study found that the voucher program had a negative effect on student achievement in both reading and math after its first two years.

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Likewise, homeschooling seems to mitigate the negative effects of low levels of parents» education on student achievement — a finding that's especially intriguing since these parents are the educators — as well as the negative effects of family socioeconomic variables and race displayed in public schools.

In related work conducted in Massachusetts, Harvard economist Josh Goodman finds no effects of school closures on student achievement but large negative effects of weather - induced absences on moderately snowy days when schools remained opeIn related work conducted in Massachusetts, Harvard economist Josh Goodman finds no effects of school closures on student achievement but large negative effects of weather - induced absences on moderately snowy days when schools remained opein Massachusetts, Harvard economist Josh Goodman finds no effects of school closures on student achievement but large negative effects of weather - induced absences on moderately snowy days when schools remained open.

On the third page of the study, the authors write: «Negative voucher effects are not explained by the quality of public fallback options for LSP applicants: achievement levels at public schools attended by students lotteried out of the program are below the Louisiana average and comparable to scores in low - performing districts like New Orleans.»

To the extent that NCLB - like accountability had either positive or negative effects on measured student achievement, we would expect, once NCLB had been implemented, to observe those effects most distinctly in states that had not previously introduced similar policies.

Still, if North Carolina's traditional public schools improved in response to their presence, the apparently negative effects of charter schools on the achievement of students who attend them could be offset by more positive statewide effects.

However, charter schools in North Carolina exhibit negative effects on student achievement even after controlling for student turnover rates.

That study, while reporting negative achievement effects for participants in Ohio's largest voucher program, also found that students remaining in public schools performed higher on tests, owing to program - induced competition.

Second, the absence of effects on achievement in nearby traditional public schools suggests that the loss of students to charter schools is not having negative achievement effects on traditional public schools, but it also suggests that charter schools may not produce the hoped - for positive competitive effects in traditional public schools.

Thus, simply assigning homework may not produce the desired effect — in fact, ill - structured homework might even have a negative effect on student achievement.

A third study using a different approach and using data only on Texas schools finds mixed results in the first year of implementation including negative impacts on student achievement in elementary and middle school, and positive effects on high school graduation rates.

I have written about voucher results from Louisiana extensively before, especially the large negative effects that the state's program, and a similar program in Ohio, have had on the achievement of students using them to move to private schools.

Nation's Only Federally Funded Voucher Program Has Negative Effect on Student Achievement, Study Finds (The Washington Post) Associate Professor Martin West weighs in on new research behind voucher programs and their impact on students» performance.

In sum, results suggest that principal turnover has significant negative effects on student achievement.

While rapid principal turnover has negative effects on student achievement «on average,» some individual schools are able to manage rapid turnover in ways that prevent achievement decline.

Examining 277 separate studies on the effect of teacher - pupil ratios and class - size averages on student achievement, he found that 15 percent of the studies found an improvement in achievement, while 72 percent found no effect at all — and 13 percent found that reducing class size had a negative effect on achievement.

The study's authors speculate on four potential explanations for the large negative effects that their program evaluation found: misalignment of private school curriculum to the Louisiana State Standards; differences between serving scholarship students with achievement gaps and traditional private school students; success of other education developments, especially in New Orleans; and the overall quality of private schools willing to participate in the program.

He examined 277 different studies on the effect of teacher - pupil ratios and class - size averages on student achievement, he found that 15 percent of the studies found an improvement in achievement, while 72 percent found no effect at all — and 13 percent found that reducing class size had a negative effect on achievement.

Research confirms what logic and experience dictate: that teachers - in training are significantly less effective in supporting student achievement than those who are fully trained when they enter teaching, and that the negative effects are particularly pronounced for students whose success depends most acutely on fully - trained professionals.

Middle - class schools are 22 times as likely to be high performing as high - poverty schools, in part because disadvantaged students face extra obstacles, but in part because economic segregation has an independent, negative effect on student achievement.

Data from a meta - analysis of the participant effects of private school vouchers illustrates that the effect of vouchers on participating students» academic achievement in both reading and math tends to start out neutral or negative in year one and trends to positive by years two or three of the program.

A new paper by researchers at the University of Michigan, Stanford and the University of Virginia found that high teacher turnover in elementary schools has a negative effect on students» math and English achievement, regardless of whether the teachers who leave are considered especially good at their jobs.

Data from a meta - analysis of the participant effects of private school vouchers illustrates that the effect of vouchers on participating students» academic achievement in bothreading and math tends to start out neutral or negative in year one and trends to positive by years two or three of the program.

More recent evaluations of voucher programs in three states — Indiana, Louisiana, and Ohio — have all come to similar conclusions and show that voucher programs have negative or neutral effects on student achievement.11 Importantly, all impacts described in this report are relative to public schools.