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Booker, Kevin; Sass, Tim R.; Gill, Brian; Zimmer, Ron – Education Next, 2010
Most studies focus on the effects of charter attendance on short-term student achievement (test scores), using either data sets that follow students over time or random assignment via school admission lotteries to control for differences between students in charter and traditional public schools. Beyond measuring achievement effects, however,…
Descriptors: High Schools, Dropout Rate, School Choice, Educational Attainment
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Peterson, Paul E.; Llaudet, Elena – Education Next, 2007
On July 14, 2006, the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) released a study that compared the performance in reading and math of 4th and 8th graders attending private and public schools. According to the NCES study, students attending private schools performed better than students attending public schools.…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Grade 8, Grade 4, Student Characteristics