Sentences with phrase «study on school choice»

In their new report Renewing Our Cities: A Case Study on School Choice's Role -LSB-...]

Lake and DeArmond examine Fordham's new study on school choice in light of findings from our recent Measuring Up report, and conclude that choice friendliness is no guarantee of good things happening for kids.

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.

This damning statistic from last week's New School study on school choice exposes the absurdity of new Chancellor Richard Carranza's vow that «all students will be supported» as he aims to desegregate the system.

Dr. Ladner has written numerous studies on school choice, charter schools and special education reform.

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.

Ladner has written numerous studies on school choice, charter schools, and special education reform, and has published articles in Education Next, the Catholic Education: A Journal of Inquiry and Practice, and the British Journal of Political Science.

For more than a decade, empirical studies on school choice programs have shown improvements in educational performance and results for both students and schools.

In fact, the evidence from the 7 rigorous studies on school choice programs with long - term outcomes suggests that portfolio management and other heavy regulations are neither necessary nor desirable for producing long - term gains for students.

The School Voucher Research Wars Studies on school choice can offer little ammo for either side, but that hasn't stopped opponents and proponents alike from firing away.

MacIver Institute: Empirical Studies on School Choice Overwhelmingly Find Positive Effects, Review Shows http://bit.ly/1WOX0oZ

One indicator that this study may sufficiently account for both selection and omitted variable bias, is that its results are consistent with randomized studies on schools choice that also find no relationship between choice and student outcomes 7 8 9.

Akin to the earlier analysis of EdChoice and several other studies on school choice - driven competition, this analysis reveals that the initiative improved public schools» academic performance.

Not exact matches

In a study that surveyed the nation's 100 largest school districts, New York City scored an A-minus on school choice and competition.

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.

«Better food choices near schools for healthier teeth: Study on oral health prevention.»

«Scholarships give our students the gift of freedom: to make career choices based on purpose and passion, rather than the price of education; to use time to study, explore science, and volunteer to help others, rather than working to make ends meet; and to succeed because someone who never met them saw enough potential to invest in their dreams,» said Catherine Lucey, MD, vice dean for education at UCSF's School of Medicine.

These studies show, consistently, that parental schools of choice not controlled by public school districts 1) are usually prohibited by law from screening out students based on admission exams, 2) use ability tracking less frequently than traditional public schools even when, legally, they can, and 3) may use ability tracking, but when they do, it is less likely to have a negative effect on the achievement of low - track students.

High school students using PBL in American studies performed as well on multiple - choice tests as students who received a traditional model of instruction, and they showed a deeper understanding of content (Gallagher & Stepien, 1996).

Two conclusions from recent PISA studies are that increased national performance is associated with greater equity in the distribution of educational resources and that equity can be undermined when school choice segregates students into schools based on socioeconomic background.

In addition, 86 % of day students at the school were accepted into their first - choice university, of which over a third of students (38 %) will be going on to study at a top 10 ranked university in the country.

Hess's second case study focuses on the five - year - old voucher plan in Cleveland, where he finds that the potential benefits of choice and competition were neutralized by multiple factors, including frequent changes in leadership, the state's move to take over the city's schools, the modest size of the vouchers (only $ 2,250), and the existence of strong unions.

The Milwaukee school choice program and the response of Milwaukee Public Schools are especially significant in light of Frederick M. Hess's study of the effects of competition on large urban school districts.

The study examines the impact of winning a school choice lottery on dropout rates and crime for groups of students with different propensities to commit crimes, using an index of crime risk that includes test scores, demographics, behavior, and neighborhood characteristics to identify the highest - risk group.

Hess uses these case studies to speculate on how choice might be introduced in ways that both respect the built - in political and organizational constraints of urban school districts and lead to school improvement.

The three studies find neutral to positive impacts of private school choice on college enrollment and graduation, but with some variation:

The book emerged from the authors» study of choice programs in the schools of San Antonio, but it became an attempt at a sweeping synthesis of scholarly work on education policy, drawing on literature in philosophy, economics, political science, education, and law.

Your article on the Milwaukee school - choice evaluation («New Studies on Private Choice Contradict Each Other,» Sept. 4, 1996) accurately reports that our study of the Milwaukee choice program found that choice students outperformed a comparable control group of Milwaukee Public Schools students on standardized tests by a considerable amount after three and four years of experience in the choice scchoice evaluation («New Studies on Private Choice Contradict Each Other,» Sept. 4, 1996) accurately reports that our study of the Milwaukee choice program found that choice students outperformed a comparable control group of Milwaukee Public Schools students on standardized tests by a considerable amount after three and four years of experience in the choice scChoice Contradict Each Other,» Sept. 4, 1996) accurately reports that our study of the Milwaukee choice program found that choice students outperformed a comparable control group of Milwaukee Public Schools students on standardized tests by a considerable amount after three and four years of experience in the choice scchoice program found that choice students outperformed a comparable control group of Milwaukee Public Schools students on standardized tests by a considerable amount after three and four years of experience in the choice scchoice students outperformed a comparable control group of Milwaukee Public Schools students on standardized tests by a considerable amount after three and four years of experience in the choice sSchools students on standardized tests by a considerable amount after three and four years of experience in the choice scchoice schoolsschools.

The most commonly cited school choice review, by economists Cecilia Rouse and Lisa Barrow, declares that it will focus on the evidence from existing experimental studies but then leaves out four such studies (three of which reported positive choice effects) and includes one study that was non-experimental (and found no significant effect of choice).

Finally, most of the previous reviews of the evidence on school choice have generated more fog than light, mainly because they have been arbitrary or incomplete in their selection of studies to review.

The studies were conducted as a partnership with the School Choice Demonstration Project at the University of Arkansas and look at the impact of the vouchers on student achievement and non-cognitive skills, on racial segregation, and on students attending nearby public schools (competitive effects).

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.»

When they insist that ideas like school choice, performance pay, and teacher evaluations based on value - added measures will themselves boost student achievement, would - be reformers stifle creativity, encourage their allies to lock elbows and march forward rather than engage in useful debate and reflection, turn every reform proposal into an us - against - them steel - cage match, and push researchers into the awkward position of studying whether reforms «work» rather than when, why, and how they make it easier to improve schooling.

A study by Matthew M. Chingos and Paul E. Peterson on the long - term impact of school vouchers on college enrollment and graduation won the 2016 Association for Education Finance and Policy (AEFP) Prize awarded for Best Academic Paper on School Choice and Rschool vouchers on college enrollment and graduation won the 2016 Association for Education Finance and Policy (AEFP) Prize awarded for Best Academic Paper on School Choice and RSchool Choice and Reform.

As we continue to study choice - based policies in K — 12 education, one challenge we must confront is the push - pull created by high - stakes accountability measures designed to assess schools, students, and educators, based solely on test scores — an area where choice proponents and opponents often find common ground.

Given a half - century of failure from school reform, great priority should be given to the further study of the effects of school choice in empowering parents over educators and school boards and its effects on advancing student achievement and parent satisfaction.

Now, a new monograph, «Beyond Partisan Politics: A Response to the Carnegie Report on School Choice,» accuses the Carnegie study of «numerous outright errors of fact, as well as errors of omission and interpretation that seriously undermine its credibility.»

On Jan. 24, readers questioned three members of the Teacher Leaders Network — Corrina Knight, a 6th grade language arts / social studies teacher at Salem Middle School in Apex, N.C.; Linda Emm, an educational specialist with Schools of Choice in Miami, and a consultant with the National School Reform Faculty; and Carolann Wade, the coordinator for national - board certification and liaison for Peace College's teacher education program of the Wake County, N.C., school district — about their work with teacher - directed professional develoSchool in Apex, N.C.; Linda Emm, an educational specialist with Schools of Choice in Miami, and a consultant with the National School Reform Faculty; and Carolann Wade, the coordinator for national - board certification and liaison for Peace College's teacher education program of the Wake County, N.C., school district — about their work with teacher - directed professional develoSchool Reform Faculty; and Carolann Wade, the coordinator for national - board certification and liaison for Peace College's teacher education program of the Wake County, N.C., school district — about their work with teacher - directed professional develoschool district — about their work with teacher - directed professional development.

But there is risk of overstating results from any single study, especially on issues as controversial and polarizing as private school choice.

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.

TIP provides a new way to look at what is going on behind the school gate, as Susan Craig states: «Traditional explanations of children's disruptive behaviours often emphasise their volitional aspects, suggesting that they occur as a result of bad choices, or intentional defiance... Recent studies of trauma and self and self - regulation provide an explanation.»

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.

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.

Much has been written and studied regarding choice in education — on charter schools, vouchers, choice among district schools, and much more — but the idea, so powerful in our economy and in other enterprises, including higher education, has rarely been examined in the context of federalism and the appropriate roles of Washington and lower levels of government.

On average during our study period, about 21 percent of schools in the 39 states with this information had NCLB - induced choice, with considerable variation across areas and over time.

He is also the author or editor of numerous other publications including the following: School Choice International: Exploring public private partnerships (co-editor with Rajashri Chakrabarti) School Money Trials: The Legal Pursuit of Educational Adequacy (co-editor with Martin R. West) Reforming Education in Florida: A Study Prepared by the Koret Task Force on K - 12 Education (editor) The Education Gap: Vouchers and Urban Schools (with William G. Howell) Generational Change: Closing the Test Score Gap (editor) No Child Left Behind?

Understanding the effect of private school choice on real - world success beyond test scores requires data on outcomes like college enrollment and graduation, and thanks to three recent Urban Institute studies, we know more about this than we did a year ago.

As a result of our findings of no consistent statistical association between the achievement and attainment effects in school choice studies we urged commentators and policymakers «to be more humble» in judging school choice programs or schools of choice based solely or primarily on initial test score effects.

The effects of private - school - choice programs on the achievement of student participants have been extensively studied using a variety of research designs.