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Voucher Pathways and Student Achievement in Indiana’s Choice Scholarship Program

This article examines the pathways that students can follow within the Indiana Choice Scholarship Program and the associations with their math and English language arts achievement in upper elementary and middle school. We analyze student-level longitudinal data by matching voucher and nonvoucher st...

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Autores principales: Austin, Megan, Waddington, R. Joseph, Berends, Mark
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Russell Sage Foundation 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6546025/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31168476
http://dx.doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2019.5.3.02
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description This article examines the pathways that students can follow within the Indiana Choice Scholarship Program and the associations with their math and English language arts achievement in upper elementary and middle school. We analyze student-level longitudinal data by matching voucher and nonvoucher students to estimate the role of participating in the voucher program, taking advantage of the uniqueness of Indiana public and private schools taking the same standardized assessment over time. The different student pathways for using vouchers are related to student achievement with significant achievement losses for students who switch from a public to a private school with a voucher. Students who have always attended a private school, both before and after receiving a voucher, experience no significant changes in achievement.
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spelling pubmed-65460252019-06-03 Voucher Pathways and Student Achievement in Indiana’s Choice Scholarship Program Austin, Megan Waddington, R. Joseph Berends, Mark RSF Article This article examines the pathways that students can follow within the Indiana Choice Scholarship Program and the associations with their math and English language arts achievement in upper elementary and middle school. We analyze student-level longitudinal data by matching voucher and nonvoucher students to estimate the role of participating in the voucher program, taking advantage of the uniqueness of Indiana public and private schools taking the same standardized assessment over time. The different student pathways for using vouchers are related to student achievement with significant achievement losses for students who switch from a public to a private school with a voucher. Students who have always attended a private school, both before and after receiving a voucher, experience no significant changes in achievement. Russell Sage Foundation 2019-03 /pmc/articles/PMC6546025/ /pubmed/31168476 http://dx.doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2019.5.3.02 Text en © 2019 Russell Sage Foundation. Austin, Megan, R. Joseph Waddington, and Mark Berends. 2019. “Voucher Pathways and Student Achievement in Indiana’s Choice Scholarship Program.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 5(3): 20–40. DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2019.5.3.02. Author order was determined randomly; each contributed equally to this paper. This paper was supported by Notre Dame’s Center for Research on Educational Opportunity and Institute of Educational Initiatives, the Spencer Foundation, and the Walton Family Foundation. We are grateful to the Indiana Department of Education for providing access to the state administrative records and for supporting independent analyses. We are also grateful for the substantial feedback we have received from numerous colleagues, including David Agrawal, Bob Bifulco, Jo Blacketor, Kenneth Couch, Josh Cowen, Kenneth Dodge, John Elcesser, Joe Ferrare, Phil Gleason, Joshua Goodman, Doug Harris, Brian Jacob, Helen “Sunny” Ladd, Hank Levin, Maddy Mavrogordato, Andrew Penner, Ann Primus, Macke Raymond, Amy Ellen Schwartz, James Shuls, Erdal Tekin, Genia Toma, Patrick Wolf, Ron Zimmer, three anonymous reviewers, and participants at the Using Administrative Data for Science and Policy conference held in January 2018 at the Russell Sage Foundation headquarters in New York. All opinions expressed in this paper represent those of the authors and not necessarily the institutions with which they are affiliated. All errors in this paper are solely the responsibility of the authors. Direct correspondence to: Megan Austin at maustin@air.org, 10 S. Riverside Plaza, Suite 600, Chicago, IL 60606. Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6546025/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31168476
http://dx.doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2019.5.3.02
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