Education Next – Paul E. Peterson
“Like many a critic of No Child Left Behind, I do not believe that test score performance is what really counts. Graduating from high school and then pursuing a college diploma or acquiring a skill for a promising career is vastly more important. . . . Now we are finally beginning to get a series of studies that give us an idea of the longer-term impact of school choice programs. Repeatedly the evidence is showing that schools of choice are compiling a consistently better record than that of traditional public schools.”(more)