Edd Doerr suggests that this letter was published in Education Week on June 15 might be of interest
“School Choice Letter Omits Research, Distorts Polling”
Paul
DiPerna’s letter touting school vouchers and education savings accounts
(“Governor’s School Choice Essay Ignores Research, Critic Says,” May
20, 2015) conveniently did not mention the research and published
findings of University of Illinois education professors Christopher and
Sarah Lubienski showing that the apparent private school advantage is
due to those schools’ selectivity (The Public School Advantage: Why
Public Schools Outperform Private Schools, University of Chicago Press,
2013).
Further,
the results of the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice survey in
Delaware that were mentioned in Mr. DiPerna’s letter should be viewed
with skepticism as, according to the group Americans for Religious
Liberty, they run substantially counter to the results of 40 years of
Gallup/Phi Delta Kappa education polls and 28 state referendums over the
years, such as those in Hawaii in 2014 and in Florida in 2012.
Dennis Middlebrooks
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