Privately Financed Vouchers Help Black Students, Two Studies Find
Black students who used privately financed vouchers to switch to private schools in four cities are showing steady academic gains over their public school peers, according to two studies released last week.
In New York City, Washington, and Dayton, Ohio, black students who received vouchers averaged 6 percentile points higher on the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills in mathematics and reading after two years than students who had applied for the scholarships but remained in public schools, a study by Harvard University researchers found.
A similar study conducted by the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research found that the standardized-test scores of students who used such vouchers in Charlotte, N.C., increased by 6 percentile points after one year in math and 7 points in reading when compared with those of students who...
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