Notes test score impacts for African Americans but not Latinos after three years. Also reveals higher levels of parent satisfaction with private schools and some aspects of the school climate.

Looks at a privately funded voucher program, finding minimal differences in math scores and modest differences in reading scores between voucher students and their public school counterparts, while also noting that the voucher program seems to be serving the working poor.

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Looks at a privately funded voucher program, finding minimal differences in math scores and modest differences in reading scores between voucher students and their public school counterparts, while also noting that the voucher program seems to be serving the working poor.

The School Choice Scholarships Foundation (SCSF) announced in February 1997 that it would provide 1,300 scholarships so that children from low-income families currently attending public schools could transfer to private schools.

Provides a comprehensive profile of the program, including participant and school demographics, services offered, and performance outcomes, using 1998-1999 performance reports submitted by 355 projects serving over 300,000 participants. Notes that 52 percent of participants continued from a...

In the past two decades, the number of states offering alternative certification routes for teachers increased from a handful to 45. Some estimates suggest that a third of any given year's newly hired teachers come through these routes. However, teacher training programs vary widely in their...

Explores why some schools may be better than others at helping students learn by identifying and critiquing national indicator data on school leadership, goals, professional community, discipline, academic environment, teacher academic skills, teaching assignment, teacher experience,...