Sentences with phrase «results of these school choice»

Seven of the eight previous studies using similar definitions of segregation found that, on average, students move from more segregated to less segregated schools as a result of school choice.

If the results are largely inconsistent with the hypothesis, as in the case of our study, one retains a healthy amount of doubt regarding the association between achievement and attainment results of school choice evaluations.

Whereas school choice programs with a lighter regulatory burden yielded positive results, the technocratic attempt to ensure quality through regulation yielded the first negative results of any school choice program ever studied.

Thus to the extent that social networks are racially isolated, then the results of school choice may lead to racially isolated schools.

Wylie and other critics maintain that there's no indication that student achievement has improved as a result of school choice.

The Heartland Institute takes a look at Dr. Will Flanders annual review of school performance rankings and notes that, The results of these school choice programs should not be surprising.

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As a result, parents would be able to pass on their moral commitments through schools of their choice.

Schools take action because they understand something that parents can lose sight of: kids make the choice to do these things, and as a result, they should be held accountable.

Mayim Bialik, best know for her roles as «Blossom» and «Amy» in the Big Bang Theory, who holds a PH.D if Neuroscience and is the recent author of «Beyond the Sling», mentioned that while in graduate school studying the hormones of human attachment as part of her thesis, she started seeing the results of these kinds of parenting choices.

This could result in a reduction in the proportion of parents getting their child into their first choice of school.»

School choice was promised to improve all of our schools through competition, but the results have been far from that.

However, if the concentration of minority or low - income students in a school results from the purposeful choices of parents rather than from neighborhood segregation, the adverse effects may be fewer.

As a result, parental choices contribute to the creation of a special education gap at the very beginning of formal schooling.

I've written about this at greater length elsewhere (see here and here), but we have eight rigorous studies of school choice programs in which the long - term outcomes of those policies do not align with their short - term achievement test results.

Equally however, a greater market can result in greater variation in quality and we would advise all school business management professionals to consider carefully their choice of provider to ensure that they receive the best training.

Check out the results of our annual EdNext poll to see what Americans think of the Common Core, school choice, teacher policies, and more.

In general, high - risk male youth commit about 50 percent less crime as a result of winning the school - choice lottery.

Max Eden, a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, joins EdNext Editor - in - chief Marty West to discuss the results of the election, and in particular, what they mean for school choice efforts nationwide.

The result is the «intent - to - treat» effect of winning a lottery; it is an intent because students offered a place in their first - choice school did not always take it (for example, they may have moved out of the district).

Howard Fuller talks with EdNext editor - in - chief Marty West about his reaction to the election results, his thoughts on Betsy DeVos, and what supporters of school choice can do now.

Included in the two - year state budget is a provision that more than quadruples the size of the EdChoice Scholarship Program over the next two years, ultimately resulting in up to 60,000 students having access to private school choice by the 2012 - 2013 school year.

The result: five «choice» schools where Gainesville families can opt to send their children, regardless of neighborhood boundaries.

Rather, the racial patterns we observe in charter schools are the result of the choices students and families make as they seek more attractive schooling options.

Max Eden joins Marty West to discuss the results of the election, and in particular, what they mean for school choice efforts nationwide.

Many important backers of school choice seem to believe that charters are also getting better results.

EdNext's Marty West asks Howard Fuller about his reaction to the election results, his thoughts on Betsy DeVos, and what supporters of school choice can do now.

One can therefore obtain a rough estimate of the effect of actually attending the first - choice school (as a result of winning the lottery) by doubling the results presented below.

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.

Let's briefly review the results from the three rigorous examinations of the effect of private school choice on educational attainment.

In general, high - risk students commit about 50 percent less crime as a result of winning a school choice lottery.

But any comparison of the demographics of students in charter and traditional public schools provides at best an incomplete picture of segregation because segregation resulting from school choice policies would occur primarily across schools, not within schools.

Conservatives take a different lesson from the disappointing results of the law's public school choice provisions.

Despite more proof that the small schools of choice reform strategy pursued by the Gates Foundation before 2006 has been a clear success, the Gates Foundation has nothing to say about these positive results.

Resulting in the direction of about $ 146 million in public funding towards private schools last year, the Indiana Choice Scholarship Program has been in operation for about five years to date.

In short, our results reveal substantial improvements in traditional public - school performance due to the introduction and growth of charter - school choice.

Third, many control group children may already have been attending a school other than one in their neighborhood as a result of expanded school choice policies, which also meant that children in the experimental group could stay in their original schools after their families moved.

Even before Villaraigosa pushed through public school choice, the district watched over 15 magnet schools with long waiting lists, and Cortines's pilot campuses were showing promising results, at least in terms of decentralizing school management.

The danger with your argument — that we may have no choice but to rely on test scores — is that it rationalizes ignorant actions by policy makers whose knowledge of school or program quality consists almost entirely of test score results.

In early December, as part of our Making School Choice Work project, CRPE will release the results of a parent survey illustrating how families experience school choice in eight cities, including DeSchool Choice Work project, CRPE will release the results of a parent survey illustrating how families experience school choice in eight cities, including DeChoice Work project, CRPE will release the results of a parent survey illustrating how families experience school choice in eight cities, including Deschool choice in eight cities, including Dechoice in eight cities, including Detroit.

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.

In tackling this task, Feinberg says, they «backed into» the five essential tenets of the KIPP model: High Expectations (for academic achievement and conduct); Choice and Commitment (KIPP students, parents, and teachers all sign a learning pledge, promising to devote the time and effort needed to succeed); More Time (extended school day, week, and year); Power to Lead (school leaders have significant autonomy, including control over their budget, personnel, and culture); and Focus on Results (scores on standardized tests and other objective measures are coupled with a focus on character development).

Parents might not know a lot about the schools their children attend, but maybe the mechanism of school choice produces good results anyway.

Better consumer information: Where charter supply exceeds demand — often as a result of indiscriminate authorizing and loose limits on schools — families have lots of choices.

Critics of school choice are concerned about the degree to which a choice regimen will cause schools to become more racially segregated and the degree to which choice will result in creaming - the phenomenon in which only savvy, involved parents exercise their ability to choose, thereby leaving disadvantaged children concentrated in schools that few others would consider attending.

As Lamb, Teese and Polesel have shown, with the increasing residualisation of public schools caused by the flight of cultural capital — itself a result of years of federal and state neglect and artificial choice programs promoting private schools — public schools have a larger proportion of problematic learners, disadvantaged and refugee families, and students at risk of school failure, but have larger class sizes than ever before in comparison with most private schools.

If vouchers are found constitutional only if charters are available and secular private schools open themselves to voucher recipients, the result could profoundly affect the future of school choice in ways neither side anticipated.

Washington — Some of the leading proponents of «choice» in education told a Senate panel last week that increased competition in the educational marketplace would result in better schools and more satisfied parents, students, and teachers.

The results also found that when it came to the more personal choice of which school people would choose to send their own children to, grammars appeared much more popular.

Her newest book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education, which was published last week by Basic Books, is the result of that effort.

The movement is generally supported by school leaders, who say that they must be able to have a choice in the selection of talent in their building if they are to be held accountable for achievement results.