A few general comments on this new Fordham report on #ohioed #schoolvouchers:
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First and most important: the study presents a ton of zero impacts and tiny effects. Mostly this is #schoolvouchers report about statistical noise, packaged as a win. The beauty of null results is one can see what one wants.
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But in what’s become a trend for Fordham, its house-written Forward makes way more of the externally done results than it should.
Basically the argument goes
“#schoolvouchers” critics say vouchers hurt but we find no evidence of vouchers doing anything! Critics are wrong!”
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Basically the argument goes
“#schoolvouchers” critics say vouchers hurt but we find no evidence of vouchers doing anything! Critics are wrong!”
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Also the Forward is snarky and dismissive even by Edu-Right standards, calling real concerns by #publiceducation advocates “chicken little sky is falling.”
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The report fails to mention the earlier devastating impacts on student outcomes for students who use #ohied #schoolvouchers —even though it cites other findings from the same earlier Figlio report.
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Finally, on funding: the new Fordham #schoolvouchers report shows that as EdChoice took students/state aid away from struggling districts, local districts spend more of their own local $$ per kid who stays public.
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It’s on that result the Fordham report rests its claim that #schoolvouchers bring more $$ to public schools. I’ll say that again:
To Fordham, forcing struggling districts to pay more out of pocket for remaining students is a good thing.
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To Fordham, forcing struggling districts to pay more out of pocket for remaining students is a good thing.
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Because, they say, since fewer students are served with the same rate, this is a rising tide lifting all boats.
No discussion of actual cost per kid, funding weights, etc.
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No discussion of actual cost per kid, funding weights, etc.
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Net net, the Fordham report was written by contracted out researchers who use valid and reasonable statistical methods to find a whole lot of nothing. Which Fordham is spinning today as a win for #schoolvouchers.
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Today’s Fordham report is a great example of now typical pro-#schoolvouchers advocacy research: set up a straw man based on the worst predictions of critics, and claim anything less than “the worst” as a positive finding! @DianeRavitch @palan57 @StephenODyer @carolburris
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