The Wasington Post reports a U.S. Education Department study has found students in the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program scored four months ahead of their public school counterparts in reading:
The study, conducted by the Education Department’s research arm, the Institute of Education Sciences, compared the performance and attitudes of students with scholarships with those of peers who were eligible but weren’t chosen in a lottery. Parents of students in the program were more satisfied with their children’s new schools and considered the schools safer, the report found. …
But Secretary of Education says the answer to failing schools is to improve all of them for everybody, not giving poor families a chance to opt out of them.
HT: The Corner
