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The evidence indicates that voucher systems improve test scores, graduation rates, and other aspects of both public and private schools, not just the latter: h

by cgmg 9y ago

The evidence indicates that voucher systems improve test scores, graduation rates, and other aspects of both public and private schools, not just the latter: http://educationnext.org/rising-tide/ http://educationnext.org/rising-tide/

wahern 9y ago
15 years later, http://news.stanford.edu/2017/02/28/vouchers-not-improve-student-achievement-stanford-researcher-finds/ http://news.stanford.edu/2017/02/28/vouchers-not-improve-stu... I wouldn't expect charter schools to actually change much because the evidence is very clear that the most important factor in achievement, overwhelmingly, is the child's home environment.
wahern 9y ago
Scaled-up voucher programs like those previously advocated by Secretary DeVos show the worst effects. There have recently been four statewide voucher programs: Florida, Indiana, Louisiana, and Ohio. The Florida study is inconclusive, and the others show large negative effects. In some respects, the Louisiana results are more convincing because the results have been corroborated by two different sets of researchers and students were assigned to vouchers by lottery—the most rigorous way to evaluate vouchers. In terms of providing convincing results, the Indiana and Ohio programs, are somewhere in between, but these show negative results as well. Voucher supporters argue that the results have been worse in the recent statewide programs because they have been “heavily regulated,” by which they mean the requirements that students be tested, that these results be made publicly available, and that schools must let in any student who is eligible for the voucher. The fact that this fairly minimal oversight is considered controversial or heavy-handed, however, only reinforces that private schools are designed to be exclusive and have little interest in external accountability. https://www.brookings.edu/opinions/why-managed-competition-is-better-than-a-free-market-for-schooling/ https://www.brookings.edu/opinions/why-managed-competition-i...

by cgmg 9y ago

wahern 9y ago

15 years later, http://news.stanford.edu/2017/02/28/vouchers-not-improve-student-achievement-stanford-researcher-finds/ http://news.stanford.edu/2017/02/28/vouchers-not-improve-stu... I wouldn't expect charter schools to actually change much because the evidence is very clear that the most important factor in achievement, overwhelmingly, is the child's home environment.

wahern 9y ago

Scaled-up voucher programs like those previously advocated by Secretary DeVos show the worst effects. There have recently been four statewide voucher programs: Florida, Indiana, Louisiana, and Ohio. The Florida study is inconclusive, and the others show large negative effects. In some respects, the Louisiana results are more convincing because the results have been corroborated by two different sets of researchers and students were assigned to vouchers by lottery—the most rigorous way to evaluate vouchers. In terms of providing convincing results, the Indiana and Ohio programs, are somewhere in between, but these show negative results as well. Voucher supporters argue that the results have been worse in the recent statewide programs because they have been “heavily regulated,” by which they mean the requirements that students be tested, that these results be made publicly available, and that schools must let in any student who is eligible for the voucher. The fact that this fairly minimal oversight is considered controversial or heavy-handed, however, only reinforces that private schools are designed to be exclusive and have little interest in external accountability. https://www.brookings.edu/opinions/why-managed-competition-is-better-than-a-free-market-for-schooling/ https://www.brookings.edu/opinions/why-managed-competition-i...