Sentences with phrase «weak school choice»

Not exact matches

Much as weak signals from the outer realms of the universe are both hard to detect and even more difficult to interpret, so, too, preliminary findings about the ways in which new forms of school choice will shape the public schools are hardly definitive.

On the school choice front, Nevada has a limited open - enrollment policy, and a charter school law that is deemed weak by the Center for Education Reform, a rating that lowers the state's grade.

So, one could say that the price you pay for greater school choice is weaker equity.

Including closing weak charter schools or cutting off public funding to private schools of choice if they diminish achievement?

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This approach is good for kids — protecting them from bad schools — and it's also good politics — safeguarding choice programs from criticisms about weak performance and shoddy quality.

But school choice also has a weak point: bad schools that emerge and persist in a marketplace that hasn't brought nearly as much quality control as proponents expected.

It is simply incorrect to claim, as the AEI authors did, that «a school choice program's impact on test scores is a weak predictor of its impacts on longer - term outcomes.»

So is it true, as Hitt, McShane, and Wolf claim, that «a school choice program's impact on test scores is a weak predictor of its impacts on longer - term outcomes»?

Support for school choice in all its forms and for NCLB appears to be somewhat weaker among voters in school board elections than among the population as a whole.

As the authors put it, «A school choice program's impact on test scores is a weak predictor of its impacts on longer - term outcomes.»

A new paper argues that a school choice program's impact on test scores is a weak predictor of its impacts on longer - term outcomes.

After running a variety of analyses, Hitt, McShane, and Wolf concluded that «A school choice program's impact on test scores is a weak predictor of its impacts on longer - term outcomes.»

Their conclusion: «at least for school choice programs, there is a weak relationship between impacts on test scores and later - life outcomes.»

It certainly embodies no true agreement about which levels of government should do what, about what to do about weak achievement and faltering schools, about «accountability,» or about «choice.»

Universal school choice that provides access to quality educational options, as Paul Hill of the University of Washington observes, will «depend on the supply - side, that is, on the success of arrangements that promote the creation of a wide variety of school options, expose all schools to performance pressures through competition, and permit constant replacement of weak schools by promising new ones.»

But after many hours of conversations with researchers and practitioners as diverse as Anthony Bryk (Stanford University), Linda Darling Hammond (Stanford), Gene Bottoms (Southern Regional Education Board), Judy Codding (America's Choice cofounder), and Ted Sizer (Coalition of Essential Schools), Vander Ark became convinced that high school was where the reform money was most needed and that existing high schools were intrinsically weak institutions that could not be fixed on the mSchools), Vander Ark became convinced that high school was where the reform money was most needed and that existing high schools were intrinsically weak institutions that could not be fixed on the mschools were intrinsically weak institutions that could not be fixed on the margins.

They contend that the evidence points to a mismatch, specifically that «a school choice program's impact on test scores is a weak predictor of its impacts on longer - term outcomes.»

On the East Coast, Washington, D.C., has become the new darling of the school choice movement, thanks in part to pro-reform leadership (and a weak union) that has delivered an evaluation and merit pay system much like the one New York's reformers once hoped to implement at home.

I'm basing that conclusion of the weak connection on my review of those 7 charter and private school choice studies as well as the Heckman book I referenced.

While there's much emphasis on the necessity of school choice («choice can strongly foster diversity and increase the options for students living in areas where the existing schools are weak») there's an oxymoronic antipathy towards public charter schools which, in our most segregated districts, are often the only choices available to families who can't afford private schools or out - of - district tuition.

Because of that, and the possibility that all schools — including the weakest ones — might be improving over the long - term, this study isn't a sweeping condemnation of school choice.

Maryland currently has one of the weakest charter school laws in the nation, which has left parents here with fewer choices for educating their children than in many other states.

In May, The New York Times blamed school choice for why the NYC high school application process is so complicated and traps the neediest kids in the weakest performing schools.

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Cantor said Wednesday that he wants more «school choice» — allowing parents to pull students from weak public schools and enroll them in a better traditional, charter or private school, with tuition ideally paid with federal money.

Yet the detrimental effects are weaker for disadvantaged students, who typically constitute the proposed target of school choice reforms.

@ 300baud: that school choice doesn't actually produce better results is a weak argumen t against school choice?

In opposition, Mr Gove had spoken of the need for reform, saying: «The situation that we have at the moment is flawed and it's a situation which leads students, particularly in weaker schools and particularly from poorer backgrounds, to be led into making choices which are not good for them.»

But that cornerstone is proving to be weaker than once thought as science reveals more information about how humans make choices, writes Kent Greenfield, professor at Boston College Law School, in a guest post at the American Constitution Society Blog.