D.C. voucher students show gains
The Washington Post’s headline is Voucher Students Show Few Gains in First Year but isn’t that the same as Voucher Students Show Gains in First Year?
According to the Post, despite their headline,
- Students who did well at math in public schools, did better at voucher schools.
- Parents prefer the voucher program.
- These gains came after only seven months.
Of course, changes in education aren’t going to show massive success overnight, and we can expect further improvements as the program progresses. But even with just this, as one of the commenters said on Joanne Jacobs’s blog, it costs less, there was no drop in academic performance, and parents are happier. That’s a failure?
- Voucher Students Show Few Gains in First Year
- “Students who moved from higher-performing public schools to private schools and those who scored well on tests before entering the program performed better in math than their peers who stayed in public school.”
- Voucher Use in Washington Wins Praise of Parents
- “All scientific assessments of choice programs show positive gains, and nearly all of those studies show statistically significant gains. But it takes some time to get results, especially after a switch in schools that can be disruptive in various ways in the short-term. We have plenty of evidence that school choice improves student performance.”
- D.C. voucher snapshot
- “If voucher opponents think that ‘happier and doing about the same’ is failure, that means that one goal of voucher opponents is to make them less happy.”
More deception
- There will be deception
- As their world falls apart, media liars will get better at lying.
- The coming crisis
- We know it. We just don’t know what it is yet.
- Media misdirection
- What does it matter when major news organizations try to rewrite history through omission and misdirection?
- Obama campaign skirts campaign finance law
- I expected the New York Times to be silent on the illegal donations that the Obama 2008 campaign encourages. I should have known better: they’re trying to cover for the campaign. But the bigger issue is that laws that don’t get enforced are counterproductive; they encourage dishonesty and lawlessness.
- The Helter Skelter Media
- Joe the Plumber and the vengeance of the media.
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More education
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- Not only does slavery make life worse for slaves, it doesn’t make life better for slave-owners. And the ultimate freedom is freedom to learn.
- Teaching kids to fail
- Are schools designed to teach kids to fail?
- ACLU enables Texas textbook takeover
- If you give the government a gun, some politician or bureaucrat somewhere is going to pull the trigger. Make sure that whatever powers you cede to the government are powers you want them to exercise.
- Blogs fight resegregation in DC?
- Can bloggers resurrect a successful education program that beltway Democrats killed?
- Government food courts
- Imagine there’s no grocery… it isn’t hard to do… nothing to grill or fry for…… and no bacon too…
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More educational diversity
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- How can we make ourselves less vulnerable to sudden epidemics, before they become epidemics, and without causing epidemic levels of deaths?
- COVID Lessons: Government Monopolies are Still Monopolies
- Our response to COVID-19 was almost designed to make it worse. We shut down the nimble small businesses that could respond quickly, and relied almost solely on large corporations and the government monopolies that failed us, because they are monopolies.
- Why is it so difficult to hold schools accountable?
- Simulating accountability in education has the same problems as simulating accountability in health care or any other monopoly. Tests and grades and paperwork are never as effective as choice.
- Anything less than school choice is unfair
- Forcing people to pay for one government school regardless of where they want their kids to go is so unfair that even far-left Democrats think it’s wrong.
- OccupyDemocrats breaks with teacher unions, demands school choice
- In a major break with a critical Democrat power base, OccupyDemocrats accuses Democrats, NEA, and former President Obama with “denying minority children the right to quality education in order to keep them in chains to a failed ideology.”
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