This report synthesizes the latest empirical
research on school choice to answer those questions and more.
Research on school choice programs like the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship suggests mixed results.
Dr. Stein has conducted quasi-experimental and mixed - methods
research on school choice that has investigated the instructional conditions of charter public schools, parent involvement in charter public schools, and the effect of choice on student sorting by race and academic achievement.
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.
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).
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.
, Handbook of
Research on School Choice (pp. 409 - 426).
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.
PX's
research on school choice, housing and Islamic extremism has added handsomely to the public square.
Not exact matches
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.
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.
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 secto
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 secto
on 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.
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.
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.
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).»