This week Pennsylvanians will get a look at a plan to use state money to give low-income families alternatives to public school.
Pittsburgh mentors, money fuel education
By Mary Beth Marklein, USA
Rethinking Advanced Placement
NY Times By CHRISTOPHER DREW, Published: January 7, 2011
A sweeping redesign of Advanced Placement aims to take the rote out. In biology, that means half the multiple-choice questions.
School Vouchers and Student Achievement:
Recent Evidence, Remaining Questions
Cecilia Elena Rouse,Princeton University
Lisa Barrow, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
August 6, 2008
Abstract:
In this article, we review the empirical evidence on the impact of education vouchers on student achievement, and briefly discuss the evidence from other forms of school choice. The best research to date finds relatively small achievement gains for students offered education vouchers, most of which are not statistically different from zero. Further, what little evidence exists regarding the potential for public schools to respond to increased competitive pressure generated by vouchers suggests that one should remain wary that large improvements would result from a more comprehensive voucher system. The evidence from other forms of school choice is also consistent with this conclusion. Many questions remain unanswered, however, including whether vouchers have longer-run impacts on outcomes such as graduation rates, college enrollment, or even future wages, and whether vouchers might nevertheless provide a cost neutral alternative to our current system of public education provision at the elementary and
secondary school level.
Test scores, graduation rates, and school vouchers
Patrick J. McCloskey, October 20, 2008
Barack Obama says he's keeping an open mind on school vouchers because we need to do whatever works for the kids. STATS asked Patrick McCloskey, author of the forthcoming "The Street Stops Here," a study of Catholic education in Harlem, to look at how the voucher system is being assessed and whether test scores should be seen as the only measure of their success
Patrick J. McCloskey, October 20, 2008
Barack Obama says he's keeping an open mind on school vouchers because we need to do whatever works for the kids. STATS asked Patrick McCloskey, author of the forthcoming "The Street Stops Here," a study of Catholic education in Harlem, to look at how the voucher system is being assessed and whether test scores should be seen as the only measure of their success
Youth United for Change and the Advancement Project Present
Zero Tolerance in Philadelphia
DATE: Thursday January 13th TIME: 4 pm LOCATION: Council Caucus Room 401, City Hall
You are cordially invited to a press conference to release our new report entitled Zero Tolerance in Philadelphia: Denying Educational Opportunities and Creating a Pathway to Prison.
The report is co-authored by the Advancement Project and Youth United for Change, and written in consultation with the Education Law Center
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