Study Credits Choice With Raising Test Scores
Student achievement in a New York City community district renowned for its school choice program is higher than in comparable city districts, and the results can be attributed to the program, a new study concludes.
The study, which has not yet been published, examines Community School District 4 in East Harlem, where the 24-year-old program that allows parents to place their children in any of a number of small alternative schools has been held up nationwide as a model of public school choice.
Mark Schneider and Paul Teske, political scientists at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, say that reading and math scores of students in District 4 started to climb after the choice program...
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