To evaluate school quality, states require students to take standardized tests; in many cases, passing those tests is necessary to receive a high-school diploma. These high-stakes tests have also been shown to predict students' ...
Social Sciences
Dec 11, 2013
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Hurricane Katrina took a devastating toll on New Orleans, LA, when it made landfall in August 2005.
Political science
Sep 22, 2020
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Some commentators believe the COVID-19 crisis has accelerated the need for parents to have more "school choice," while others say the pandemic shows the urgency of new schooling models developed under school choice policies.
Social Sciences
Feb 2, 2021
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For the past half-century, school choice initiatives have been intensifying across the globe. Choice policies emphasize school competition and increasing families' opportunities to select among academic programs.
Social Sciences
Feb 14, 2023
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The similarities in educating disadvantaged children in New Zealand and Chile and the dangers of charter schools are the subjects of a public lecture at the University of Auckland this month.
Social Sciences
Jul 11, 2014
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Personal growth and job skills have taken a backseat to an increased focus on standardized test scores in schools across the nation, according to new University at Buffalo-led research.
Education
Apr 8, 2020
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Despite dramatic growth in enrollment in online charter schools in Ohio, students are not achieving the same academic success as those in brick-and-mortar charter and public schools, finds a study by NYU's Steinhardt School ...
Social Sciences
Feb 16, 2017
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A new study by the University of Michigan's Education Policy Initiative shows Michigan's charter schools follow similar practices as the traditional public schools that their students would otherwise attend.
Social Sciences
Dec 2, 2016
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The UCLA Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles today released a new research report on segregation and its alternatives in Washington D.C. showing that despite the sharply increasing diversity of the nation's capital, ...
Social Sciences
Feb 13, 2017
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(Phys.org) -- Despite being promoted as a viable alternative to traditional public schools, privately owned charter schools in Texas have higher attrition rates for black students than comparable urban public schools, says ...
Social Sciences
Apr 12, 2012
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