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The Effects of School Vouchers on College Enrollment
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Matthew M. Chingos: Our study of New York City students shows that use of vouchers closed the gap between Hispanic and African-American students who enrolled full-time in a four-year college.
Matthew M. Chingos
Paul Peterson, Professor, Harvard University: The numbers suggest that Hispanic students attended better-quality public schools than African-American students, making the impact of vouchers on African-American students that much larger.
Nada O. Eissa, Associate Professor, Georgetown University: More attention needs to be given to the question of whether students enrolled in private schools for some time see a dip in performance once they return to public schools.
Michael Petrilli, Exec. Vice President, Thomas B. Fordham Institute: There is a relationship between improvements on student achievement test scores and college enrollment rates a decade later.
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Private school vouchers that enable students from low-income families to attend private schools have generated much controversy but little rigorous research. Most voucher studies examine immediate outcomes, such as students’ scores on standardized tests. Few studies are able to track longer-term outcomes, and even fewer are able to do so in the context of a randomized experiment. As a result, the voucher debate continues to generate more heat than light. On August 23, the Brown Center on Education Policy at the Brookings Institution and the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard University co-hosted an event examining evidence from an important new study on school vouchers. Report authors Matthew M. Chingos of Brookings and Paul E. Peterson of Harvard have carried out the first study that measures the impact of school vouchers on college enrollment in the context of a randomized experiment. A presentation of the results by the authors was followed by a panel discussion. The event was live Tweeted at hashtag #BIVouchers.
Ron Haskins
Co-Director, Center on Children and Families, Budgeting for National Priorities
Senior Fellow, Economic Studies
Fellow, Governance Studies, Brown Center on Education Policy
@chingos
Nada O. Eissa
Associate Professor of Public Policy and Economics, Georgetown Public Policy Institute, Georgetown University
Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research
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Paul Peterson
Henry Lee Shattuck Professor and Government Director, Program on Education Policy and Governance
Harvard University
Michael Petrilli
Executive Vice President
Thomas B. Fordham Institute
August 23, 2012
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM EDT
Brookings Institution
Falk Auditorium
1775 Massachusetts Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20036
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#BIVouchers
Brookings Office of Communications events [at] brookings.edu 202.797.6105
Paper
October 3, 2013, Beth Akers
October 3, 2013
Blog Post
October 2, 2013, Matthew M. Chingos
September 25, 2013, Beth Akers
September 18, 2013, Thomas J. Kane
September 12, 2013
September 11, 2013, Grover J. "Russ" Whitehurst
September 4, 2013, Tom Loveless
Brown Center on Education Policy ›
August 23, 2012, Matthew M. Chingos and Paul E. Peterson
Opinion
February 6, 2012, Grover J. "Russ" Whitehurst
Interactive
December 11, 2012, Grover J. "Russ" Whitehurst and Sarah Whitfield
August 1, 2012, Grover J. "Russ" Whitehurst and Sarah Whitfield