Sentences with phrase «on school choice research»

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Patricia Mucavele, research and nutrition manager at the School Food Trust, which offers its own advice on packed lunches, said, «School lunches are now the most nutritious choice for children and young people.

PX's research on school choice, housing and Islamic extremism has added handsomely to the public square.

That's the finding of a new study published in the Journal of Marketing Research: «Healthy Choice: The Effect of Simplified Point - of - Sale Nutritional Information on Consumer Food Choice Behavior,» co-authored by Hristina Nikolova, the Coughlin Assistant Professor of Marketing at the Carroll School of Management at Boston College and J. Jeffrey Inman, Associate Dean for Research and Faculty and the Albert Wesley Frey Professor of Marketing at the University of Pittsburgh Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business.

UF / IFAS assistant professor of food and resource economics Jaclyn Kropp — along with economists at Georgia State University, Clemson University and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration — worked with a county school food services director to develop a novel research model to study school lunch choices children make, combining lunch sales data collected at the cafeteria register with data on student absences.

To illustrate the un-reliability of test score changes, I'm going to focus on rigorously identified research on school choice programs where we have later life outcomes.

On - going trends involving public school segregation have been a primary focus of the CRP's research, and the expanding policy emphasis on school choice prompted analysis of the much smaller — but politically potent — charter sectoOn - going trends involving public school segregation have been a primary focus of the CRP's research, and the expanding policy emphasis on school choice prompted analysis of the much smaller — but politically potent — charter sectoon school choice prompted analysis of the much smaller — but politically potent — charter sector.

The research represents each level of government — federal, state, and district — and focuses on state - federal relationships and the effects of school choice and supplemental education services on school districts.

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.

Research on private school choice, like most educational interventions, has focused on short - term outcomes like test scores and parent satisfaction.

The major substantive chapters of the book place Swedish expenditure and achievement in comparative perspective (in both, Sweden rates high); show that the decline in education inputs during the 1990s worsened the teacher - student ratio and teacher quality; review the international research on the effects of school choice; and test for the effects of school choice in Sweden on achievement.

, Handbook of Research on School Choice (pp. 409 - 426).

A common shortcoming in research and commentary on school choice is the failure to recognize the extent to which school choice already exists.

Drawing on an evaluation of the Montclair model and other research, the report concludes that school - choice plans based on magnet schools «appear most promising in meeting the educational goals of achieving racial balance, providing quality education, and offering diverse educational programs.»

In considering the policy implications of this research, it is important to recognize that our analysis reflects parent decisions conditional on school choice.

At a recent conference on school choice worldwide held at the Cato Institute in Washington, Mr. Tooley called his research results potentially explosive because...

The limited research on efforts to improve school choice systems also demonstrates that simplifying the information parents receive about their school choices increases the likelihood that parents will select a higher - performing school.

Research on private school choice is much better equipped to measure the effects on participants» outcomes than to offer guidance on policy design.

These findings suggest avenues for future research on the optimal design of private school choice programs.

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.»

AIFS» Research Fellow, Diana Warren said the reasons behind school choice varied significantly depending on whether parents opted to send their child to a government or an independent school.

In my research on school choice, one cultural disparity came up repeatedly as a reason for why white parents leave the schools they are trying to integrate.

Summaries of the effects of multiple programs generally show positive effects, as does a meta - analysis of gold - standard experimental research on school choice by Shakeel, Anderson, and Wolf (2016).

But if Strauss is inclined to introduce professors fulsomely, she might let her readers know that I am the Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government and Director of the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard University, who has spent years researching school governance, school choice, school accountability, and teacher effectiveness rather than referring to me as «Harvard's Paul E. Petersen.»

As reform ideas expand from school choice to educational choice — not just where a child learns but how they learn — more research is needed on the accounts to determine how a menu of educational choices affects student achievement and parent satisfaction over a longer time horizon.

There are proposals for new approaches to public governance, research findings on the efficacy of decentralized systems, comparisons of cities that are expanding choice, ideas for accountability and school supply, and disagreements about who should have ultimate authority.

The latest research on the nation's longest - running school - voucher initiative, the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program, although based on nonexperimental methods, shows a similar pattern of results.

The No Child Left Behind Act famously endorses the use of «scientifically based research,» the federal Institute of Education Sciences has elevated the profile of rigorous scholarship, and presidential candidates tout studies on teacher quality, testing, and school choice.

Research that focuses solely on the latter is likely to understate the benefits conferred by schools of choice.

As state and federal policy makers consider private - school choice programs, they should heed research on both participant and competitive effects.

The Editorial Projects in Education Research Center reported that Peterson's studies on school choice and vouchers were among the country's most influential studies of education policy.

The effects of private - school - choice programs on the achievement of student participants have been extensively studied using a variety of research designs.

New research by the Social Mobility Commission has uncovered a progression gap between choices made by children on free school meals and their more affluent peers which can not be explained by their results at school or where they live.

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.

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.

Her research has been focused predominately on K - 12 public education fiscal policy, as well as the competitive and efficiency effects of school choice on the public school system.

Our research focuses on how private school choice programs affect students, families, schools and communities.

Interpretations of what the body of school choice research says differ dramatically depending on who you talk to, but should it be that way?

To learn more about the available empirical evidence on the effects of school choice programs, flip through this handy slide show, curated collectively and carefully by EdChoice's research team.

Last week, several news outlets circulated a report by the U.S. Department of Education's research division that found negative results for students who participated in the District of Columbia's Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP), the only private school choice program for low - income children in Washington, D.C. Predictably, opponents of school choice descended on the report to tout it as evidence that school choice does not work.

The Friedman Foundation is dedicated to research, education and outreach on the vital issues and implications related to school choice.

Lead author of Rhetoric vs. Reality: What We Know and What We Need to Know About Vouchers and Charter Schools, he has published in the Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Behavioral Science and Policy, Statistics and Public Policy, the Journal of Labor Economics, Economics of Education Review, Education Finance and Policy, American Journal of Education, Teachers College Record, Peabody Journal of Education, Education Next, the Handbook of Research on School Choice, and the Encyclopedia of Education Economics and Finance.

The introduction of randomized field trials to education research is as much a boon to knowledge as the results from any single study on school choice.

Now we want to bring the benefits of this law to our high schools by expanding on its principles of accountability, flexibility, choice, and research - based practices.

With U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos at the helm of a federal initiative to spread private school choice even further, a new forum for Education Next brings together experts to assess the research on these programs — a tax - credit - funded scholarship in Florida and voucher programs in Indiana, Louisiana, and Ohio — and the implications for whether and how states should design and oversee statewide choice programs.

So, the major media appears to have done an admirably impartial job when reporting on rigorous research in the contested field of school choice.

The overarching goal of the Framework for K - 12 Science Education: Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Core Ideas (National Research Council, 2012, Summary, para. 2) is to «ensure that by the end of 12th grade all students have some appreciation of the beauty and wonder of science; possess sufficient knowledge of science and engineering to engage in public discussions on related issues; are careful consumers of scientific and technological information related to their everyday lives; are able to continue to learn about science outside school; and have the skills to enter careers of their choice, including (but not limited to) careers in science, engineering, and technology (p. 1).»

Miss Hoxby, an expert on the economics of school choice with the National Bureau of Economic Research, said the AFT study was «junk research» and «misleadingResearch, said the AFT study was «junk research» and «misleadingresearch» and «misleading.»

Leaving aside the obvious fact that parents themselves have chosen to participate in private school choice programs, the body of research on these programs proves they work for children fortunate enough to participate.

Alexandria, Va. (October 28, 2015)- NSBA's Center for Public Education (CPE) looks at the various forms of school choice, and drawing upon relevant research and statistics, the effects each has on student achievement.