Sentences with phrase «peers attending public schools»

One in Ohio by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute released in July 2016 found that students who use vouchers «fared worse academically compared to their closely matched peers attending public schools.»

In Ohio, the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a conservative think tank and proponent of school choice, released a study of that state's program which found: «Students who use vouchers to attend private schools have fared worse academically compared to their closely matched peers attending public schools.»

Students who use vouchers to attend private schools have fared worse academically compared to their closely matched peers attending public schools.

The students who use vouchers to attend private schools have fared worse academically compared to their closely matched peers attending public schools.

Yet Fordham's new report on Ohio students found that «students who use vouchers to attend private schools have fared worse academically compared to their closely matched peers attending public schools.»

And in Ohio, a study by the pro-choice conservative think tank, the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, financed by the pro-voucher Walton Family Foundation, found «students who use vouchers to attend private schools have fared worse academically compared to their closely matched peers attending public schools.»

Not exact matches

One recent (if small study) that followed a diverse group 183 teens who attended public high school for a decade, starting in middle school, found that «by the age of 22, these «cool kids» are rated as less socially competent than their peers.

NYCLU announced a settlement with Utica City schools ensuring refugee children receive the same educational opportunities as their peers, by guaranteeing them the right to attend public school past the age of 21.

Attending public preschool is linked to an increase in students taking the admissions test for gifted and talented programs, reducing the disparity in test taking between disadvantaged students and their peers, finds a study of New York City students by NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.

Students who attend five charter schools in the San Francisco Bay area that are run by the Knowledge Is Power Program, or kipp, score consistently higher on standardized tests than their peers from comparable public schools, an independent evaluation of the schools concludes.

This analysis (again the Newspeak) builds on a large body of program evaluations in Louisiana, Indiana, Ohio, and Washington, D.C., all of which show that students attending participating private schools perform significantly worse than their peers in public schools — especially in math.

But even when all students are included in the analysis, African - American students who attended private schools scored significantly higher than their public school peers (see Figure 2).

It improves the academic performance of the low - income, mostly minority students who use scholarships to attend private schools, and also that of their peers who stay in the public schools.

Minority students who received a school voucher to attend private elementary schools in 1997 were, as of 2013, 10 percent more likely to enroll in college and 35 percent more likely than their peers in public school to obtain a bachelor's degree.

The study found that minority students who received a school voucher to attend private elementary schools in 1997 were, as of 2013, 10 percent more likely to enroll in college and 35 percent more likely than their peers in public school to obtain a bachelor's degree.

Earlier comparisons of public and private schools generally have found that low - income and African - American students who attend private schools outperform their public - school peers.

Recent evidence from Arkansas confirms that black students attending public schools there are punished more harshly than their white peers, but also suggests that most of the difference is attributable to the schools that students attend.

It also shows that white and black students who attend the public schools in which ELL students are concentrated are doing worse than their peers who attend public schools with few English language learner students.

Findings: Louisiana — Students who applied to the Louisiana Scholarship Program in 2012 --- 13, won a school - level random lottery to receive a voucher, and attended a private school in 2012 — 13 and 2013 — 14 experienced a decrease in academic achievement compared to their peers who did not win the lottery and instead attended public schools.

Stamford Public Schools scored a zero on the Isolation of Poverty Index and a zero on the Isolation of Wealth Index, meaning not a single student attends a school where 75 percent of their peers are of similar income background.

In fact, Brookings Institution released an article stating that recent research on voucher programs in Indiana and Louisiana found that those students who took advantage of vouchers to attend private school, rather than their local public schools, received lower scores than their public school peers.

In Milwaukee, we found that students attending public charter schools and private schools participating in the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program outperform their public school peers on both the Forward Exam and by 7 percent on the ACT.

In fact, Cambridge Public Schools received a zero on both the Isolation of Poverty Index and the Isolation of Wealth Index, meaning none of the district's students attend a school where at least 75 percent of their peers have the same economic status as they do.100 Students in Cambridge also outperform their peers in neighboring districts on standardized assessments.101

As public school students, children attending charters should be able to access similar funding and facilities as their traditional public school peers.

Remember, charter school students, their parents, and teachers all forego ordinary legal due process protections that their peers who attend REAL public schools enjoy.

One way to compare homeschooled students with peers who attend public schools is to use standardized achievement test scores.

In fact, in 2015, poor and minority student groups in charter schools outperformed their peers attending traditional public schools in reading, writing, and math.

The first peer - reviewed research released on co-location, the study looked at nearly 900,000 students in grades 3 - 5 who attended a traditional public school in an attendance zone that included a charter school serving at least one of those grades between 1996 and 2010.

These FCAT grades are clear: Charter students are at a dramatically higher - risk of attending an F school than their peers are at traditional public schools.

Those results showed that voucher program students who remained in the program were more likely to graduate from high school than their Milwaukee peers who attended public schools.

Statewide, students attending public charter schools in Louisiana gained an additional 50 days of learning in reading and 65 days in math compared to their peers attending traditional public schools.

that students attending private schools thanks to this program have equal or better academic performance than their peers in the local public schools, and have significantly higher graduation rates.

Higher percentages of charter school students of every race attend predominantly minority schools (50 - 100 % minority students) or racially isolated minority schools (90 - 100 % minority students) than do their same - race peers in traditional public schools.

A 2012 report from the National Education Policy Center (which has been critical of the charter schools) found that students who attended virtual schools performed worse academically then their peers in other public schools.

A recent study by the Urban Institute compared college attendance rates of students who participated in the program to attend a tuition - based school with their demographically - similar peers who attended traditional public schools.

Yet the average performance of students attending public school is significantly lower than their private school peers;

If you are a white or middle - class family living in Washington, your child will likely attend a socioeconomically segregated neighborhood school or a higher - quality magnet, and will outperform her peers in suburban public schools.

There still may be some unobservable differences between students who attend charter schools compared with their public school peers.

According to research released in 2010 by professor Gary Orfield of the Civil Rights Project at the University of California, Los Angeles, 70 percent of black charter school students attend a school where the bulk of their peers are also minorities — compared to 40 percent in traditional public schools.

Researchers at Harvard and the Brookings Institution (where Ravitch used to be a fellow) found «minority students [in New York City] who received a school voucher to attend private elementary schools in 1997 were, as of 2013, 10 percent more likely to enroll in college and 35 percent more likely than their peers in public school to obtain a bachelor's degree.»

By the end of elementary school, the large initial achievement gap between children in public housing who attended the district's most advantaged schools and their non-poor peers in the district was cut by half for math and one - third for reading.

The association between peer relations and adjustment was examined in 121 Chinese adolescent newcomers (11 — 19 years) attending public schools in an urban Canadian city.