07/12/2017
Over the past months, there have been a number of negative reports on the impact of private school choice, but today Corey DeAngelis' article, "The Failure of Private School Choice Was Greatly Exaggerated," shows otherwise. Here is a snippet.
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"Over the last year or so, many tales of woe have spread that seized on a few, preliminary studies that appeared to show negative effects for students in school choice programs. Just three days before the release of those studies, newspaper columnist Kay McSpadden myopically used the studies to conclude that “the evidence is clear, vouchers don’t work.”
But two new studies looking at standardized test scores—as well as additional studies by me and my colleagues at the School Choice Demonstration Project —were just released last month. It turns out the failure of choice was greatly exaggerated."
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Over the last year or so, many tales of woe have spread that seized on a few, preliminary studies that appeared to show negative effects for students in school choice programs. Just three days...