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Vouchers help African-American students go to college
The Effects of School Vouchers on College Enrollment: Experimental Evidence from New York City is a new Brookings Institution/Harvard University study written by Matthew M. Chingos and Paul E. Peterson. Chingos and Peterson concluded that vouchers “increased the overall college enrollment rate among African-Americans by 24 percent.” The authors examined data from the New YorkContinue Reading
International and U.S. state trends in student performance
Education researchers Eric A. Hanushek, Paul E. Peterson, and Ludger Woessmann released a new report, “Achievement Growth: International and U.S. State Trends in Student Performance.” In comparisons of test score growth over time, Hanushek et al found that the United States average was nearly identical to the international average. Between 1995 and 2009, 24 countriesContinue Reading