{"id":494768,"date":"2021-05-18T07:03:31","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T11:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marketnewsdesk.com\/index.php\/private-school-vouchers-boost-college-going-but-not-for-students-in-greatest-need\/"},"modified":"2021-05-18T07:03:31","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T11:03:31","slug":"private-school-vouchers-boost-college-going-but-not-for-students-in-greatest-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marketnewsdesk.com\/index.php\/private-school-vouchers-boost-college-going-but-not-for-students-in-greatest-need\/","title":{"rendered":"Private-school vouchers boost college going, but not for students in greatest need"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 18, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — For moderately disadvantaged students, using a voucher to attend a private school increases college-enrollment rates and four-year degree attainment. But vouchers have no significant effect on college going or degree attainment for the most severely disadvantaged students, Albert Cheng of the University of Arkansas and Paul E. Peterson of Harvard University report in a new article for <\/a><\/strong>Education Next<\/a><\/strong>. <\/i><\/p>\n

Education researchers typically use student eligibility for free or reduced-price school lunch as the sole indicator of socioeconomic status, yet the category is broad and fails to measure the considerable differences in economic and cultural resources among lower-income families in the United States.<\/p>\n

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Cheng and Peterson analyze data from a New York City school choice program that awarded vouchers by lottery for the 1997-98 school year. They compare college enrollment and degree attainment between disadvantaged African American and Hispanic American students who were offered a voucher and those who were not. Informed by research on first-generation college students, they distinguish between \u201cmoderate\u201d and \u201csevere\u201d disadvantage by family income and based on whether a minority student\u2019s mother has any education beyond high school.<\/p>\n

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