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Download full textDay, Doug; Yeado, Joe; Schmidt, Jeff – Public Policy Forum, 2014
This report provides important perspective on the distinctive and changing features of Milwaukee's K-12 education landscape. The authors conducted two comparative analyses of Milwaukee schools. The first, a trend analysis, traces how Milwaukee schools have changed in the past decade. The second, a peer analysis, shows how Milwaukee schools compare…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Public Schools, Private Schools, Charter Schools
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Direct linkLevine, David I.; Painter, Gary – Economics of Education Review, 2008
Youth who share a school and neighborhood often show similar levels of academic achievement, but some studies find all or most of this correlation is due to sorting (not causation). We analyze the National Education Longitudinal Survey (NELS) in three ways to decompose sorting versus causality: We first control for much richer measures of family…
Descriptors: Family Characteristics, Academic Achievement, Scores, National Surveys
Okpala, Comfort O.; Bell, Genniver C.; Tuprah, Kwami – Urban Education, 2007
This policy study examined the differences in student achievement scores in reading and mathematics in selected public middle schools of choice and in traditional public middle schools with similar demographics and socioeconomic characteristics in a southeastern school district in North Carolina during the 1997-1998, 1998-1999, and 1999-2000…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Traditional Schools, Academic Achievement, Middle Schools
Howell, 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
Greene, Jay P.; Winters, Marcus A. – Center for Civic Innovation, 2006
This study evaluates the initial effect of Washington, D.C.'s Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP) on the academic performance of public schools and its effects on the opportunities that District students have to attend integrated schools. The OSP is a federally sponsored school voucher program that provides vouchers worth up to $7,500 for an…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Scholarships, Racial Integration, Public Schools
Howard, Eric S. – 2003
This report describes a study conducted to determine if there were any applicable effects from private-school competition on public-school student achievement in North Carolina. The study examined multiple student outcomes, including elementary and secondary student achievement results, student dropout rates, and high school student achievement…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, County School Districts, Dropout Rate
