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Perspective on scholarship programs
Ben Scafidi
Benjamin Scafidi is a senior fellow at the Georgia Public Policy Foundation and a professor of economics and director of the Education Economics Center at Kennesaw State University. - photo by File photo
A recent opinion piece in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution asked, "Are vouchers a failure?" Any answer requires examining the best evidence on the topic and placing research results into a reasonable policy context. First, the best evidence: Eighteen "gold-standard" studies followed students who were randomly offered a voucher to attend a private school and compared their outcomes with students who wanted a voucher, but were randomly denied one.
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Editor's Corner: July 5th
Andrea Gutierrez new
For those who may not know, July 5th is the independence day of Venezuela, the first South American country to declare its independence
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