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A Flawed Critique of Our School Choice Achievement-Attainment Divide Study
We conducted six formal statistical tests of the hypothesis that school choice test score impacts reliably predict future attainment impacts. Five of the tests did not support the hypothesis. We have subjected our initial findings to a variety of robustness tests, all of which they passed.
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A New “Report” Misleads on School Vouchers
Newspeak plays a central role in the latest Center for American Progress (CAP) broadside against the idea of low-income parents choosing private schools for their children .
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Programs Benefit Disadvantaged Students
School voucher programs, which allow eligible families to send their children to private schools...
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A Story, Not a Study
We should judge Milwaukee’s voucher program and the schools that participate in it on the totality of that evidence, not on crude correlations.
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That’s Not Fair!
Students in public charter schools receive $5,721 or 29% less in average per-pupil revenue than students in traditional public schools.
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School Choice Boosts Test Scores
My colleagues and I just released a meta-analysis of 19 “gold standard” experimental evaluations of the test-score effects of private school choice programs around the world.
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Views from Private Schools
Policymakers seeking to improve the quantity and quality of educational options for families through private school choice programs should consider the opinions of the school leaders poised to serve those customers.
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Charter School Productivity Report: Red Flags or Red Herrings?
Our finding that charter school sectors in all 28 states that we study demonstrate higher productivity and/or return on investment than their traditional public school sectors has ruffled some feathers at the National School Boards Association.