Are there differences in the achievement of voucher recipients and public school students?
A new analysis reports that there are no academic advantages for voucher recipients in Cleveland . The Cleveland Scholarship and Tutoring program is the second oldest voucher program in the U.S. , but it has not received much attention from researchers. Dr. Clive Belfield evaluates data on more than 2,000 students to identify achievement gains as a result of voucher use. He finds no academic benefits for voucher users in second and fourth grade after statistical adjustments are made for students’ prior ability and time spent at a private school. Perhaps most importantly, there are no observed gains for African-American students. This finding refutes previous research, which has suggested that African-Americans benefit uniquely from voucher programs. The only consistent finding is that voucher users score lower in math than the public school comparison group. This analysis updates educational voucher research in three ways. First, seminal works in the study of vouchers are now dated. Co
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