Sentences with phrase «similar students in public schools»

Recent studies of voucher programs in Louisiana and Ohio found that students in taxpayer - supported private schools consistently score lower on standardized tests than demographically similar students in the public schools.

They employ propensity score matching methods where they compare voucher students with similar students in public schools by matching across a variety of observable background factors, including baseline test scores.

Another literature review, conducted by economists Jeffrey Grogger and Derek Neal, found few clear - cut gains for white students, while «urban minorities in Catholic schools fare much better than similar students in public schools.»

Florida and Milwaukee compared private choice participants with similar students in public schools, but the possibility remains that unmeasured differences could affect results.

Not exact matches

The piece draws a comparison to Virginia's Fairfax County, which is similar in many ways to Westchester: They're both suburbs of big cities (New York and Washington, D.C.), they have similarly high home values, and they educate about the same number of students in public schools, which in both places have a good reputation.

Look for people with a medical background, or those with youngish kids in the public schools, or those who have fought similar battles in the past, especially battles based on the idea of social justice, that low income students deserve the same respect and services as higher income students.

A new study says that on average, New York City charter school students show growth equal to 23 extra days of learning in reading and 63 more days in math each year, compared with similar students in traditional public schools.

No other public or charter high school in the state with similar percentages of low - income and ESL students even approached these rates.

First, they compare the 10th - grade test scores of students with similar 8th - grade test scores and demographics, some of whom took the algebra and English courses online with FLVS and others who took the same courses in person at their local public school.

What we found is that, compared with other students in the traditional public schools, charter school applicants are more likely to be black and poor but are otherwise fairly similar.

In the end, as RAND tells us, students who move into charter schools generally choose schools with racial compositions similar to those of the traditional public schools they exited.

Fifty - two percent of city charter school students were in 90 - 100 % minority schools, compared to only 34 % of traditional public school students — a difference of eighteen percentage points, very similar to the overall difference of twenty percentage points between the two sectors of schools (Table 22 on p. 63 of our report).

From James Coleman's early observational studies of high schools to the experimental voucher evaluations of the past 15 years, researchers have routinely found that similar students do at least as well and, at times, better academically in private schools than in public schools.

The Ohio study matched EdChoice students with descriptively similar public school students at baseline and kept every student in their original group after that, regardless of who in either group actually attended private or public schools.

A separate study of the ECLS - K data, also by Peterson and Llaudet, similarly showed that private school students gained significantly more in reading achievement than demographically similar public school students in schools with similar student populations.

Variables that measure student differences based on participation in government programs are problematic, however, especially when comparing different school sectors, since government - run public schools are much more likely to participate in such programs than are privately run schools, even if both types of schools have similar student populations.

In light of last spring's passage of the historic Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act — which enhances student loan forgiveness programs for those who enter public service, similar to what is already done for new doctors willing to work in urban hospitals — the recent study of California's teaching fellowship program could cast considerable light on the value - added benefits of utilizing bonus pay to attract new talent to troubled schoolIn light of last spring's passage of the historic Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act — which enhances student loan forgiveness programs for those who enter public service, similar to what is already done for new doctors willing to work in urban hospitals — the recent study of California's teaching fellowship program could cast considerable light on the value - added benefits of utilizing bonus pay to attract new talent to troubled sStudent Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act — which enhances student loan forgiveness programs for those who enter public service, similar to what is already done for new doctors willing to work in urban hospitals — the recent study of California's teaching fellowship program could cast considerable light on the value - added benefits of utilizing bonus pay to attract new talent to troubled sstudent loan forgiveness programs for those who enter public service, similar to what is already done for new doctors willing to work in urban hospitals — the recent study of California's teaching fellowship program could cast considerable light on the value - added benefits of utilizing bonus pay to attract new talent to troubled schoolin urban hospitals — the recent study of California's teaching fellowship program could cast considerable light on the value - added benefits of utilizing bonus pay to attract new talent to troubled schools.

The focal measures in this table are shown in the last two columns, where the authors present the percentage of charter school students (from the entire metropolitan area) in schools with greater than 90 percent minority students alongside the similar figure for traditional public schools.

However, a RAND study found that, in most states, students tend to transfer between traditional public and charter schools with similar racial compositions.

A study comparing the performance of students using vouchers to attend private school in Milwaukee with students who attend public schools found that students in both groups are exhibiting similar levels of growth.

The latest study — coming from Milwaukee — shows that the 9th graders from low income families who used vouchers to go to Catholic schools were much more likely to complete high school within four years than similar students who were in the city's public schools.

Among the study population of charter 8th graders, students who attended a charter high school in 9th grade are 8 to 10 percentage points more likely to attend college than similar students who attended a traditional public high school.

Among the study population of charter 8th graders, students who attended a charter high school in 9th grade are 8 to 10 percentage points more likely to attend college than similar students who attended a traditional public high school (see Figure 1).

In Chicago, students who attended a charter high school were 7 percentage points more likely to earn a regular high school diploma than their counterparts with similar characteristics who attended a traditional public high school.

In our study, we compare the enrollment rates at public colleges in Florida of 10,330 FTC students to those of non-participating students who initially attended the same public schools and had similar demographics (language spoken at home, country of birth, race / ethnicity, disability status, age, and free lunch participation) and test scores (in math and reading) prior to participatioIn our study, we compare the enrollment rates at public colleges in Florida of 10,330 FTC students to those of non-participating students who initially attended the same public schools and had similar demographics (language spoken at home, country of birth, race / ethnicity, disability status, age, and free lunch participation) and test scores (in math and reading) prior to participatioin Florida of 10,330 FTC students to those of non-participating students who initially attended the same public schools and had similar demographics (language spoken at home, country of birth, race / ethnicity, disability status, age, and free lunch participation) and test scores (in math and reading) prior to participatioin math and reading) prior to participation.

Finally, in Kenya, where the raw test scores showed students in private and public schools performing at similar levels, the fact that private schools served a far more disadvantaged population resulted in a gap of 0.1 standard deviations in English and 0.2 standard deviations in math (after accounting for differences in student characteristics).

And about one in three Newark students attends «beating the odds» schools, those that outperform schools with similar demographics in their state in reading and math, according to a 2015 study by the Center on Reinventing Public Education.

We find that, on average, KIPP middle schools admit students who are similar to those in other local schools, and patterns of student attrition are typically no different at KIPP than at nearby public middle schools.

First, incorporating best pedagogical practices from the U.S. military into a public school curriculum is a unique avenue for reaching students who may never participate in ChalleNGe, JROTC, or similar programs.

NewSchools Venture Fund, a nonprofit grantmaking organization, operates in several major cities across the U.S. CMOs in its portfolio work exclusively in urban neighborhoods, serve predominantly low - income students, with demographics that are similar to those of their local public school peers.

This is obviously a ripe area for further investigation and analysis, but today it's legitimate to observe, even on the basis of this limited research, that the burden is shifting to the schools and their supporters to measure and make public whatever academic benefit they do bestow on their students versus what similar young people learn in other settings.

The state had already required FTC scholarship students to participate in standardized testing using a nationally normed exam chosen by each private school; a study commissioned by the Florida Department of Education found that, in 2007 — 08, their academic gains were similar to students nationally across all income levels and to similar Florida students who remained in public schools.

CREDO controlled for the unique characteristics of students enrolled in virtual charter schools by comparing their performance to a «virtual twin,» a student with the same demographic characteristics and similar prior achievement enrolled in a traditional public school.

We also confirm that we obtain similar results when we control for student characteristics measured at or before the PSAT / NMSQT, including sex, parental education, family income level, whether a student took the PSAT / NMSQT in 10th grade and his or her previous score, indicators for ethnic background (for example, Mexican, Cuban), and controls for the type of high school attended, including affiliation (public or private), urbanicity (that is, city, suburban, rural), size, and concentration of Hispanic students.

They concluded that students enrolled in Detroit charter schools were significantly outpacing a demographically similar set of matched students who remained in traditional Detroit public schools.

Bucktown's applicants had similar reading scores but lower math scores (7 percentile points lower) compared with students in neighboring regular public schools.

From 1998 to 2007, more than 3,000 graduates of the Puente program have been accepted by four - year colleges, a rate one - third higher than that of Latino students with similar socioeconomic and academic backgrounds who attend the same California public schools but aren't enrolled in Puente.

These prior studies are based largely on non-experimental comparisons of survey responses of similar students in public and private schools, whereas our study is the first to examine data on the actual voting behavior of students who participated in a choice lottery.

We found that low - income students who used a voucher to enroll in a private school in ninth grade subsequently graduated from high school, enrolled in a four - year college, and persisted in college at rates that were 4 — 7 percentage points higher than statistically similar Milwaukee students who started in public schools in ninth grade.

Apart from giving new start - ups an initial period of time to establish themselves, it is appropriate to hold the average charter school, serving similar students, to the same standards as other public schools in that community.

Charters nationally are producing student achievement gains that are very similar to the levels in traditional public schools but receive about 30 percent less money per pupil.

Because Indiana public and private schools use the same assessment in grades 3 — 8, we could identify public - school students who shared similar achievement trajectories and demographic characteristics with these voucher students at baseline (the year prior to a student switching from a public to a private school) and track both groups» academic progress for up to four subsequent years.

Known as the CREDO study, it evaluated student progress on math tests in half the nation's five thousand charter schools and concluded that 17 percent were superior to a matched traditional public school; 37 percent were worse than the public school; and the remaining 46 percent had academic gains no different from that of a similar public school.

This evaluation addresses two specific questions: How does student achievement in charter schools compare with student achievement in demographically similar, traditional public schools?

Similarly, in Louisiana, research after the first and second years of the program found voucher students performed worse than their public school counterparts, but after three years, performance was roughly similar across both groups.

Identification of, and comprehensive, evidence - based intervention in, the lowest - performing five percent of title I schools, all public high schools with a graduation rate below 67 percent, and public schools in which one or more subgroups of students are performing at a level similar to the performance of the lowest - performing five percent of title I schools and have not improved after receiving targeted interventions for a State - determined number of years; and

In Milwaukee, which first introduced school vouchers in 1990, Wolf found in 2012 that students had mostly transferred from heavily minority public schools to private schools with similar racial mixeIn Milwaukee, which first introduced school vouchers in 1990, Wolf found in 2012 that students had mostly transferred from heavily minority public schools to private schools with similar racial mixein 1990, Wolf found in 2012 that students had mostly transferred from heavily minority public schools to private schools with similar racial mixein 2012 that students had mostly transferred from heavily minority public schools to private schools with similar racial mixes.

We grew up in similar communities and know the transformative power of great public schools like ours, which graduate virtually every student from high school and are engaged in innovative programs to support college matriculation and completion.

In the 1980s, the eminent sociologist James Coleman found that Catholic schools, more than public schools, were generating similar achievement results among different types of students.

Alabama's scholarship tax credit programs follow in the footsteps of at least six similar tax credits dating to the 1970s that give students a choice of public, private or religious schools, demonstrating that scholarship tax credits are constitutional.