Sentences with phrase «school choice research says»

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

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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.

Dr Walid Magdy, of the University of Edinburgh's School of Informatics, who led the research, said: «The introduction of skin tone choices for emojis has been a success in representing diversity and their extensive use shows that they meet a real demand from users.»

From a health perspective, farmed salmon is a good choice, said Roxanne Karimi, a research scientist at the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences at Stony Brook University.

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.

That said, for reasons I discussed last week in terms of merit pay, I'm skeptical that research can «settle» arguments regarding complex organizational reforms like school choice.

«This test mania has gotten completely out of control,» says Diane Ravitch, research professor of education at New York University and author of the 2010 book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education.

«What the privatizers are doing is they keep selling the same snake oil, school choice, as the answer to the problem,» said Ravitch, research professor at New York University's Steinhardt Sschool choice, as the answer to the problem,» said Ravitch, research professor at New York University's Steinhardt SchoolSchool.

Ravitch also falsely claims that there is «no new evidence to support» school choice despite a large and growing body of high - quality research that says otherwise.

Dr Becky Allen, Director of Education Datalab, said: «There are many benefits to giving parents a choice over where their child is educated, but our new research shows that that there is not equity in access to many primary schools, either because higher - income families are advantaged in their ability to exercise choice or because their admissions criteria favour certain pupils.»

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.»

«If the research shows us anything, it's that school choice does not come with a guarantee,» said Patte Barth, director of the Center for Public Education.

«If you have choice without civil rights policies, it stratifies the system,» said Gary Orfield, the co-director of the Civil Rights Project at U.C.L.A., a research organization that recently published a study hailing the benefits of integrated schools.

Results from the School Improvement Grants have shored up previous research showing that pouring money into dysfunctional schools and systems does not work, Smarick said: «I can imagine Betsy DeVos and Donald Trump saying this is exactly why kids need school choice.&School Improvement Grants have shored up previous research showing that pouring money into dysfunctional schools and systems does not work, Smarick said: «I can imagine Betsy DeVos and Donald Trump saying this is exactly why kids need school choice.&school choice.»

As for the research on competitive effects of school choice policies in general — vouchers, tax - credit scholarships, and charters all together — the jury is still out, said David Arsen, a professor of education policy and K - 12 educational administration at Michigan State University.

That the public schools are not gutted, that they're not collapsing, and that as a matter of fact research shows that increased choice and competition raises all boats, that they're going to say, «You know what; this program is helping kids.

Chalkbeat School choice supporters downplay new voucher research, saying schools are more than a test score

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Combatants on both sides of that fight could claim a measure of validation from the new research: Advocates of school choice who argue that it isn't fair to judge voucher programs based on test results from a student's first year in private school, given that it takes children time to adjust to a new environment, and critics who say vouchers drain funds from public schools without improving student achievement.

So, it's «somewhat misleading» to compare the choice payments in Milwaukee to a state (public school) average, said Dale Knapp, research director at the Taxpayers Alliance, a research organization.

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Oklahoma State Representative Scooter Park said that «HB2957 is a step in the right direction — driven by the support of Superintendents across the state, we can continue to remove the costly and time - consuming portions of the TLE system such as unnecessary data collection requirements as well as open the door for local school districts to develop their own qualitative evaluation system for their teachers according to their choice of a valid, reliable, research based and evidence - based qualitative measure.»

Mr. Greene, who heads the Manhattan Institute's Davie, Fla. - based education research office, said states with the strongest performance rankings tended to have strong systems of testing and accountability and allow for school choice, through charter schools and other options.