Students who use vouchers score significantly higher on test
scores than their public school peers - just as they are more tolerant and their parents are more satisfied.
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.
Not exact matches
Homeschooled students have been shown to have higher average
scores on the ACT test (26.5)
than their
public school peers (25).
You can rest easy here as well as research again indicates that homeschoolers»
scores are typically higher
than that of their
public school peers.
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.
The result is that African - American students who switched from
public to private
schools scored, on average, 6.3 points higher
than their
public school peers; by contrast, Krueger reports effects of between 9.1 and 9.8 points for African - Americans placed in smaller classes.
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).
While we estimated that, after one year, African - American students
scored 7 percentile points higher on the math portion of the Iowa Test of Basic Skills
than their
peers in
public schools, Barnard reports impacts of 6 percentile points for African - American students from low - performing
public schools.
While younger students may have benefited slightly from the voucher program after one year, the older students who switched to private
schools scored significantly lower
than their
public -
school peers after one year.
On average in the three cities, African - American students who switched from
public to private
schools scored 6.3 percentile points higher
than their
peers in the control group on the reading portion of the test and 6.2 points higher on the math portion.
In 2007 they approved funding for the first
public Waldorf methods high
school, in the Sacramento Unified School District; and (3) Three key findings on urban public schools with Waldorf methods: (a) In their final year, the students in the study's four California case study public Waldorf - methods elementary schools match the top ten of peer sites on the 2006 California test scores and well outperform the average of their peers statewide; (b) According to teacher, administrator and mentor reports, they achieve these high test scores by focusing on those new three R's — rather than on rote learning and test prep — in a distinct fashion laid out by the Waldorf model and (c) A key focus is on artistic learning, not just for students but, more importantly perhaps, for the a
school, in the Sacramento Unified
School District; and (3) Three key findings on urban public schools with Waldorf methods: (a) In their final year, the students in the study's four California case study public Waldorf - methods elementary schools match the top ten of peer sites on the 2006 California test scores and well outperform the average of their peers statewide; (b) According to teacher, administrator and mentor reports, they achieve these high test scores by focusing on those new three R's — rather than on rote learning and test prep — in a distinct fashion laid out by the Waldorf model and (c) A key focus is on artistic learning, not just for students but, more importantly perhaps, for the a
School District; and (3) Three key findings on urban
public schools with Waldorf methods: (a) In their final year, the students in the study's four California case study
public Waldorf - methods elementary
schools match the top ten of
peer sites on the 2006 California test
scores and well outperform the average of their
peers statewide; (b) According to teacher, administrator and mentor reports, they achieve these high test
scores by focusing on those new three R's — rather
than on rote learning and test prep — in a distinct fashion laid out by the Waldorf model and (c) A key focus is on artistic learning, not just for students but, more importantly perhaps, for the adults.
Public charter
school students continue to outperform their
peers, as AzMERIT results show charter students
scored better
than the state average in virtually every grade level and subject area for the third straight year.
The WaPo reporters then claim, «But a U.S. Department of Education study released in June showed that students in the program generally
scored no higher on reading and math tests after two years
than public school peers.»
Celio said they would be expected to
score lower on tests
than their
public -
school peers.