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Direct linkHowell, William G.; Peterson, Paul E. – Education Next, 2004
In "The Education Gap: Vouchers and Urban Schools" (Brookings, 2002), the authors and their colleagues reported that attending a private school had no discernible impact, positive or negative, on the test scores of non-African-American students participating in school voucher programs in Washington, D.C., New York City, and Dayton, Ohio.…
Descriptors: African Americans, Urban Schools, Private Schools, Control Groups
Peer reviewedHowell, William G.; Wolf, Patrick J.; Campbell, David E.; Peterson, Paul E. – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2002
Examined the effects of school vouchers on student test scores in three U.S. cities. Data from randomized field trials indicated that after 2 years, African Americans who switched from public to private schools improved academically relative to their public school peers in all three cities. These effects were not significant for other ethnic…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Students, Educational Vouchers, Elementary Secondary Education
Download full textHowell, William G.; Wolf, Patrick J.; Peterson, Paul E.; Campbell, David E. – 2000
In the late 1990s, three privately funded school voucher programs for students from low-income families were established in the Dayton, Ohio metropolitan area, New York City, and Washington, D.C. Additional programs were created in Dayton and Washington, D.C. and in 1999, the Children's Scholarship Fund, a nationwide school choice scholarship…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Black Students, Educational Vouchers, Elementary Education
Howell, William G.; Peterson, Paul E. – 2002
This book presents the results of research on the effects of vouchers on African American students' achievement in Washington, DC, New York, New York, Dayton, Ohio, and San Antonio, Texas. At the conclusion of a 3-year evaluation, test scores of African American students in New York City's privately funded voucher programs were substantially…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Students, Educational Vouchers, Elementary Secondary Education
Peterson, Paul E.; Howell, William G. – 2003
The voucher intervention sponsored by New York City's School Choice Scholarships Foundation (SCSF) has been a valuable source of information about such programs. It began in 1997, when K-4 public school students were invited to apply to SCSF for a voucher to help defray costs of private school tuition. Over 1,200 of 20,000 applicants were offered…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Students, Educational Vouchers, Elementary Education
Peterson, Paul E.; Howell, William G. – 2001
This paper examines the impact of vouchers on student test scores in Dayton, Ohio, New York, New York, and Washington, DC, highlighting New York City parental assessment of private and public schools to investigate why vouchers seem to have differential effects depending on the students' ethnic background. Researchers collected baseline test…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Students, Educational Vouchers, Elementary Secondary Education
