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J - Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. - Henry Kissinger Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel. - John Quinton On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 2:49 PM, Larry Lyons <larrycly...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >Perfect time for the vouchers argument in Atlanta. > > > > why vouchers do not necessarily work. The best research I found indicated > that they only benefit an extremely small number of students, and do not > benefit the ones intended its supposed to. > > Many of the studies commonly cited by voucher proponents were funded by > ideological supporters, with results not supported by independent, objective > research. Moreover, reputable research on voucher programs in Milwaukee, > Cleveland and Washington, DC indicates that these programs produce few if > any statistically significant positive effects on student achievement. > Publicly-funded vouchers have been linked to slight increases and decreases > in reading and math scores, ranging from -.03 to .11 in effect size, but > these effects are neither statistically significant nor meaningful change. > In a recent study, students in Milwaukees voucher program performed worse > than or about the same as students in Milwaukee Public Schools in math and > reading on statewide tests. Similar results have been found in the DC > schools. In short, there is little evidence that vouchers increase > educational achievement for students who utilize vouchers. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:339995 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
