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Posted on: February 23, 2017 at 13:57:01 CT
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They found large negative results in both reading and math. Public elementary school students who started at the 50th percentile in math and then used a voucher to transfer to a private school dropped to the 26th percentile in a single year. Results were somewhat better in the second year, but were still well below the starting point.
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School choice and vouchers...more bad than good. - MrBlueSky MU - 2/23 13:40:54
     As probably the only one with experience in this topic I can - DHighlander KC - 2/23 14:26:27
     I would like to see the underlying data(nm) - tman KC - 2/23 14:03:20
     Why do you hate giving the poor a choice? - RHAYWORTH MU - 2/23 13:53:04
          This is such a fallacy. - tjwheeler UI - 2/23 14:28:43
               Charter school I taught at was over 97% AA and was - DHighlander KC - 2/23 14:33:46
                    The system fails because of parents - JayHoaxH8r MU - 2/23 14:58:45
          Here's something I've wondered about on that choice. - GA Tiger MU - 2/23 14:01:40
               It's hard to demonize parents and actually get them to - MrBlueSky MU - 2/23 14:02:32
                    Or parent, as the case may be. And one of the problems. - GA Tiger MU - 2/23 14:07:06
          The poor can't use the vouchers. - Rabbit Test MU - 2/23 14:00:00
               Of course, you know better than they do, right rabbit? - RHAYWORTH MU - 2/23 14:02:29
               Why not? - Spanky KU - 2/23 14:02:03
                    Correct me if I'm wrong..but the voucher plan would give - MrBlueSky MU - 2/23 14:03:45
                         You are wrong. - Spanky KU - 2/23 14:17:29
                         That won't get a rural kid - Rabbit Test MU - 2/23 14:10:00
                              Why? - Spanky KU - 2/23 14:18:12
                    They average how much?(nm) - Rabbit Test MU - 2/23 14:03:35
          If it's at the expense of the students' learning and it - MrBlueSky MU - 2/23 13:54:43
               Point of order - Rabbit Test MU - 2/23 14:00:47
                    Sorry, you are correct. The failing schools in urban/rural - MrBlueSky MU - 2/23 14:01:54
                         Ding. - Rabbit Test MU - 2/23 14:11:01
               "failure of public schools" is an axiom at this point - 90Tiger MU - 2/23 13:58:35
                    Why not - Rabbit Test MU - 2/23 14:02:53
                    I'm not arguing that it should be managed at the federal - MrBlueSky MU - 2/23 13:59:28
               The continued failure of schools, led by people like you? - RHAYWORTH MU - 2/23 13:58:00
                    Education is certainly long past due for a revolutionary - MrBlueSky MU - 2/23 14:01:07
                         education isn't a governmental responsibility; never should - 90Tiger MU - 2/23 14:06:35
                              How do schools get built if not by a government? - MrBlueSky MU - 2/23 14:09:13
                                   How do walmarts get built, if not by government? who - 90Tiger MU - 2/23 14:18:00
                                        So all schools should be private? - MrBlueSky MU - 2/23 14:18:47
                                             Schools are just a service. There's nothing inherent - 90Tiger MU - 2/23 14:24:10
     That story was all over the place.... - Spanky KU - 2/23 13:46:56
          The NYT article was published today - MrBlueSky MU - 2/23 13:57:01
               and just as many studies show the exact opposite - Spanky KU - 2/23 14:03:27
     why is govt involved in education and more specifically - 90Tiger MU - 2/23 13:46:36
          Get the feds out of education... - Spanky KU - 2/23 13:47:43
               Get all gvmt out of education - pickle MU - 2/23 14:45:43
                    It is in the Constitutions of every single state - Spanky KU - 2/23 14:57:29
                         so change those constitutions and education is not - 90Tiger MU - 2/23 15:10:45
     IT begins at home. - Coors4bob MU - 2/23 13:46:04
     Talented STEM teachers are not teaching for half salaries - catbirdseat MU - 2/23 13:44:03
     Pretty simple solution - pickle MU - 2/23 13:43:00
          no thanks - GODZILLA MU - 2/23 13:55:16




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