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STUDY REVEALS CHARTER SCHOOLS HAVE POSITIVE IMPACT ON PUBLIC SCHOOLS

New York, NY:  Today, October 28th , Manhattan Institute senior fellow Marcus A. Winters released a new study, “Everyone Wins: How Charter Schools Benefit All New York City Public School Students”. The author uses student-level data to study the effect of competition from charter schools on academic performance in public schools.

Choosing Integration

By JAY P. GREENE
The recent Supreme Court decision declaring that school vouchers do not violate the First Amendment's Establishment Clause was an enormous victory for supporters of school choice.

How Special Ed Vouchers Keep Kids From Being Mislabeled as Disabled

8.19.09 - The authors examine the implementation of a special-education voucher program to determine whether it reduces the likelihood that a student will be diagnosed as disabled.

The Impact of High-Stakes Testing on Student Proficiency in Low- Stakes Subjects

School systems across the nation have adopted policies that reward or sanction particular schools on the basis of their students’ performance on standardized math and reading tests. One of the most frequently raised concerns regarding such “high-stakes testing” policies is that they oblige schools to focus on subjects for which they are held accountable but to neglect the rest.

The Science of Reading Instruction and No Child Left Behind

Reading First, part of the 2001 No Child Left Behind Act, seeks to lift reading achievement by encouraging the use of reading programs that have been scientifically proven to work.

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Reading First, part of the 2001 No Child Left Behind Act, seeks to lift reading achievement by encouraging the use of reading programs that have been scientifically proven to work.

What Happened to Antioch?

By Peter Wood
Antioch is no more. The venerable college is closing its doors this fall. Antioch University - which has other operations - will continue, but its flagship college is finished.

How Much Are Public School Teachers Paid?

Today, Manhattan Institute scholars Jay P. Greene and Marcus Winters released a new report entitled "How Much Are Teachers Paid?". Greene and Winters use data collected by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) to compile information on the hourly pay of public school teachers nationally and in 66 metropolitan areas. The authors compare the reported hourly income of the public school teachers to those of workers in similar professions; and analyze whether there is a relationship between higher relative pay for public school teachers and higher student achievement as measured by high school graduation rates.

Missing the Mark on Graduation Rates

By Jay P. Greene, Marcus A. Winters, & Christopher B. Swanson
The economist Lawrence Mishel, who is the president of the Economic Policy Institute, presented several weeks ago in these pages a critique of recent research on dropout rates. ("The Exaggerated Dropout Crisis," March 8, 2006.) Its attack on calculations of high school graduation rates that use official enrollment statistics from the U.S. Department of Education is off base on a number of key points.

An Unfair Grade for Vouchers

By JAY P. GREENE
Some people dwell on emptiness even in glasses that are three-quarters full.

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