An Evaluation of the Effect of D.C.'s Voucher Program on Public School Achievement and Racial Integration After One Year
Jay R. Greene and Marcus A. WintersCenter for Civic Innovation at the Manhattan InstituteJanuary 2006
Jay R. Greene and Marcus A. WintersCenter for Civic Innovation at the Manhattan InstituteJanuary 2006
Justin D. Baer, Andrea L. Cook, and Stephane BaldiAmerican Institutes for ResearchJanuary 2006
Frank McCourt; Scribner; 2005 and Jean-Paul Brighelli; Jean-Claude Gawsewitch ??diteur; 2005 (Available only in French, through Amazon)
Christian creationists aren't the only devout Americans expressing angst over K-12 school curricula. Of late, Hindus, Jews, and Muslims have joined them. In California, for example, Hindus are pressing to change how their faith is described in state history texts.
Recently I found myself both mourning the Florida Supreme Court decision that invalidated the Sunshine State's Opportunity Scholarship (aka exit voucher) program and applauding the federal court ruling in Pennsylvania that barred intelligent design from the science classroom.
Time was that "diversity" in the home-school movement referred to the handful of hippies that showed up at meetings and protests along with throngs of white Christian fundamentalists. No more, says Brian Ray of the National Home Education Research Institute. "There's an obvious ...
Though the Bush Administration talks nonstop about the essential role of rigorous research in informing education policy and practice (see here for example), it has made little progress removing one of the biggest barriers to such research.
The American Institutes of Research study (reviewed in Gadfly) analyzing student performance on TIMSS and PISA had some amazing findings.