1.Your study was sponsored by republican businessmen. But i wonder why that study focused on a few Blacks who allegedly support vouchers and not the comparative studies that show voucher schools have no appreciable difference on educational outcomes.
That is awfully suspicious to me.
2. You must have missed the part in my link that showed some voucher schools did worst than public schools in educating students.
Studies consistently show that vouchers not only fail to boost student academic performance, but many students in voucher schools actually do worse than their voucher-less peers.
That sentence is a powerful blow to the school voucher proponents. It also defangs your bite at financial support for public schools.
Yet I'm sure that's why so many democrat politicians put their kids through which type of school? Damn, I though your Democrat politicians would be in full support of your argument towards "quality" public education? Kind of sucks knowing those you put into office to represent you, don't feel the education they provide you is good enough for their OWN kids.. Ouch! So much for your argument there buddy.
Politicians and celebrities are well heeled enough to spend their own money to send their kids to private schools and they do so for security purposes. Their kids are more vulnerable in regards to being targets for kidnappers seeking ransoms. It isn't because the private school is better than the top public schools in academic pursuits but pvt schools seem to be more secure.
So you believe these politicians would rather simply
put up with their kids going through a "less than adequate" education system, that doesn't offer the very best opportunity for their kids to be successful? You are actually telling me that kids in public education are better equipped to succeed in achieving a position in an Ivy League School than any one of these Democrat politicians who put their children through a private school? Yes or no?
I am not sure all politicians send their kids to private schools and you have provided no evidence they all do. Nevertheless, I will call into evidence the public schooling of Michelle Obama in Chicago of all places. She graduated from the Whitney M. Young magnet school and after that there was no stopping her. There are many public schools of that caliber. We should strive to make them ALL that way. Some private schools may be as good as the Whitney Young school but too many don't meet the same standards. You seem to think ALL private schools meet the same standards. I have posted studies that show they do not...
That's a lot of dogging and back tracking over a simple question. You, after all, stated that "politicians don't send their kids to private school because they are better than the top public schools but because they are more secure." So when I -asked you directly if you feel those specific politicians put up with having children going to "less than adequate" education, and if those in public education stand a better chance at an Ivy League School than those Democrats who choose private school, and you are obviously afraid to answer the question.
As for the discussion of public school vs private, I won't utilize a commentary blog or a newspaper opinion on the subject, I'm going to cut through all that and go straight to the NCES. Who are the NCES? The NCES is the National Center for Education Statistics, a Federal entity who's primary role is to collect, analyze, and report data relating to education in the United States. Why waste time with mere opinions and newspaper articles, when you can go straight to the source that fulfills a Congressional mandate to collect, analyze, and report full and complete statistics on the condition of education in the United States; conducts as well as publish reports with specialized analyses of the meaning and significance of such statistics?
The
NCES conducted an assessment of over 6,900 public schools with over 530 private schools which agreed to participate for the 4th grade level, and over 5,600 public schools with over 550 private schools among 8th graders.
The findings with regard to READING:
Among those in 4th grade, an average private school mean reading score was 14.7 points higher than the average public school mean reading score
In the 8th grade level the average private school mean reading score was 18.1 points higher than the average public school mean reading score,
The report as it pertains to MATH SKILLS
The average private school mean mathematics score in the 4th grade was 7.8 points higher than the average public school
When it came to the 8th grade level, the average private school mean mathematics score was 12.3 points higher than the average public school mean mathematics score.
GOVERNMENT SOURCE:
http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/pdf/studies/2006461.pdf
The skill level attained in Public School
When you look more closely at the READING comprehension level attained in public school in 2015, the percentage of
4th-grade students performing at or above the
Basic achievement level (69 percent)
was not measurably different from the percentage in 2013, but it was higher than the percentage in 1992 which was (62 percent)
Among
8th-grade students, the percentage performing at or above
Basic level in 2015 (76 percent) was lower than in 2013 (78 percent).
GOVERNMENT SOURCE:
https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/pdf/coe_cnb.pdf
So you can try and sell me the notion that the quality of education among public schools is better than what you'll find in private, however the government assessment of the facts don't line up to that view.
Donald J Trump didn't became a "racist" until he was running for president ..funny how that works
