release discussed the achievement of subgroups that were too small to yield significant results. It spun the reading result as “modest” and claimed there were “no gains” in math. In fact, anyone familiar with these studies would say (more accurately) that there have been no statistically significant gains in mathematics yet.Outside of academics, the study also found statistically significant differences in parental and student satisfaction with their schools. Program students reported significantly higher teacher expectations and higher levels of school discipline and safety.These results are nothing short of phenomenal, considering the long trail of failure and frustration produced by earlier attempts to significantly improve the education of disadvantaged children. We should bear in mind that the maximum size of the Opportunity Scholarship ($7,500) is a fraction of average per-pupil spending in the District of Columbia public-school system.If President Obama and Senator Durbin are true to their word, they will support the reauthorization of the voucher program – not just for the children currently enrolled in it, but for all the children like them who could benefit from such opportunities. Congress voted to end the Opportunity Scholarship program absent reauthorization just a few weeks ago. Yet while U.S. lawmakers conducted that debate, they were not privy to the most recent study of the program. Several Democrats said that their decision on the voucher program would be guided by the evidence, but they didn’t get an opportunity to examine that evidence.President Obama stated in the starkest of terms that Secretary Duncan should be guided not by ideology but by practical evidence of what improves student outcomes. By sitting on a crucial report, and then attempting to bury and spin it, Duncan is failing to meet that standard.Unless the administration lives up to Obama’s ideal, the president will have aided and abetted a decision to rip opportunity away from some of the nation’s most disadvantaged students. Moreover, Obama will have done so in the face of high-quality evidence that the D.C. voucher program is benefitting these students.If you have any doubt as to whether this program should exist, ask yourself a simple question: Would you enroll your children in violence-ridden D.C. public schools with decades-long records of academic failure? Bill and Hillary Clinton didn’t. Barack and Michelle Obama didn’t. Members of Congress don’t.What about you? Would you enroll your children in those schools?No? Welcome to the parental-choice movement. The children in this program need your help. More important,character grey toms shoes, these children need Democrats who are willing to follow the evidence where it leads, and who are willing to show greater courage than Secretary Duncan.– Matthew Ladner is vice president of research at the Goldwater Institute and blogs at www.jaypgreene.com.[标签:标题]
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