Sentences with phrase «vouchers on student learning»

What do we know about the impact of school vouchers on student learning and longer - term outcomes?

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This dire sequence started, he says, with A Nation at Risk, the 1983 Reagan administration report that launched America on «experiments» such as «open classrooms, national goals, merit pay, vouchers, charter schools, smaller classes, alternative certification for teachers, student portfolios, and online learning, to name just a handful.»

Patrick Wolf's IES - funded evaluation of the Washington, D. C. school voucher program had a strongly positive impact on student learning in reading, though not in math.

While her primary focus — and the focus of many media reports about her — has been on vouchers, tax credits, and education savings accounts, organizations she has led or helped found have also advanced other reform initiatives, such as accountability for student learning and more - rigorous academic standards.

On many topics — including school vouchers, charter schools, digital learning, student and school accountability, common core standards, and teacher recruitment and retention policies — the views of Hispanic adults do not differ noticeably from those of either whites or African Americans.

Students classified as learning disabled were excluded from the analysis, as they are eligible for a more generous voucher through the McKay Scholarship Program, and the FTC program should therefore have had no effect on schools» efforts to retain these students (see «The Case for Special Education Vouchers,» features, WinteStudents classified as learning disabled were excluded from the analysis, as they are eligible for a more generous voucher through the McKay Scholarship Program, and the FTC program should therefore have had no effect on schools» efforts to retain these students (see «The Case for Special Education Vouchers,» features, Wintestudents (see «The Case for Special Education Vouchers,» features, Winter 2010).

And, the final US Department of Education report on the Washington, DC voucher program showed that a main reason why students didn't use a voucher offered to them was that they were unable to find a participating school with services for their learning or physical disability or other special needs.

Avoid expanding school privatization options, including privately - operated charter schools, vouchers and neo-vouchers, such as tax credits and opportunity tax scholarships, which research shows: (1) fail to deliver on the promise of better learning opportunities and student performance; (2) siphon limited resources from local community schools; (3) open up the potential for violating students» civil rights; (4) hinder transparency and accountability; and (5) tend to lead to more schools being racially segregated.

Third, the op - ed states «facts show that where vouchers have been into practice on a meaningful scale, they hurt student learning.»

For example, the final Department of Education report on the D.C. voucher showed that one of the main reasons why students didn't use a voucher offered to them was that they were unable to find a participating school that offered services for their learning or physical disability or other special needs.

Finally, many public schools who lost students to vouchers are on an upward performance trajectory.52 Therefore, part of the learning loss experienced by voucher students compared with the learning of their public school peers could be attributable to the fact that those public schools are on an upward performance trajectory.