Comments on: School Choice Action http://www.eduwonk.com/2010/02/school-choice-action.html Education News, Analysis, and Commentary Mon, 13 Feb 2012 03:45:52 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Edharris http://www.eduwonk.com/2010/02/school-choice-action.html/comment-page-1#comment-151244 Edharris Fri, 05 Feb 2010 23:01:26 +0000 http://www.eduwonk.com/?p=5417#comment-151244 Sara, maybe this is the study Jo-Ann Armao was referring to: <i>The study, titled "A Win-Win Solution: The Empirical Evidence on How Vouchers Affect Public Schools," analyzed "all available empirical studies on how vouchers affect academic performance in public schools." It found that 16 of 17 empirical studies show that vouchers actually improve public schools, while the one remaining study found that vouchers had no visible impact on public schools. Significantly, that one study, in Washington DC, was also the only study conducted on a voucher program that intentionally protects public schools from the impact of competition.</i> http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/mar/09030504.html Full study here: http://www.friedmanfoundation.org/friedman/downloadFile.do?id=357 On the other hand, there's this: <i>The study, which is indeed rigorous, shows the same small advances in reading among voucher kids as in comparable non-voucher kids. There were no differences in math. Please see pages v and vi in the executive summary:</i> http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/pubs/20094050/pdf/20094051.pdf Sara,
maybe this is the study Jo-Ann Armao was referring to:
The study, titled “A Win-Win Solution: The Empirical Evidence on How Vouchers Affect Public Schools,” analyzed “all available empirical studies on how vouchers affect academic performance in public schools.”

It found that 16 of 17 empirical studies show that vouchers actually improve public schools, while the one remaining study found that vouchers had no visible impact on public schools. Significantly, that one study, in Washington DC, was also the only study conducted on a voucher program that intentionally protects public schools from the impact of competition.
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/mar/09030504.html
Full study here:
http://www.friedmanfoundation.org/friedman/downloadFile.do?id=357

On the other hand, there’s this:
The study, which is indeed rigorous, shows the same small advances in reading among voucher kids as in comparable non-voucher kids. There were no differences in math. Please see pages v and vi in the executive summary:
http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/pubs/20094050/pdf/20094051.pdf

]]> By: Sara http://www.eduwonk.com/2010/02/school-choice-action.html/comment-page-1#comment-150441 Sara Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:02:04 +0000 http://www.eduwonk.com/?p=5417#comment-150441 Andy, do you know which study WaPo is citing that suggests the program is "working"? Most of what I've read seems to say that parent satisfaction and perceived safety increase among voucher students, but the academic achievement was flat. Andy, do you know which study WaPo is citing that suggests the program is “working”? Most of what I’ve read seems to say that parent satisfaction and perceived safety increase among voucher students, but the academic achievement was flat.

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