Lost Opportunities

Autor/in	Wolf, Patrick J.
Titel	Lost Opportunities
Quelle	In: Education Next, 9 (2009) 4, S.48-56 (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1539-9664
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Academic Achievement; Educational Change; Educational Vouchers; Educational Assessment; Educational Indicators; School Choice; Educational Policy; Policy Analysis; Achievement Gains; Excellence in Education; School Restructuring; Comparative Testing; United States + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Schulleistung; Bildungsreform; Educational voucher; Bildungsgutschein; Education; assessment; Bewertungssystem; Educational indicato; Bildungsindikator; Choice of school; Schulwahl; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Politikfeldanalyse; Achievement gain; Leistungssteigerung; Lernerfolg; Schulreformplan; Schulumwandlung; USA
Abstract	School vouchers provide funds to parents to enable them to enroll their children in private schools and, as a result, are one of the most controversial education reforms in the United States. Among the many points of contention is whether voucher programs in fact improve student achievement. Most evaluations of such programs have found at least some positive achievement effects, but not always for all types of participants and not always in both reading and math. This pattern of results has so far failed to generate a scholarly consensus regarding the beneficial effects of school vouchers on student achievement. The policy and academic communities seek more definitive guidance. The Institute of Education Sciences (IES) released the third-year impact evaluation of the Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP) in April 2009. The results showed that students who participated in the program performed at significantly higher levels in reading than the students in an experimental control group. In this article, the author presents the study findings and his own interpretation of what they mean. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10