But it is even clearer that the real-world payoff, in terms of brighter educational prospects for children who desperately need them, is greater than many of us dared to hope. The course ahead may prove difficult, but undoubtedly it is the right one, and well-worth the fight. Attorneys are preparing to ask the Ohio Supreme Court for an expedited appeal. Scores are reported on NAEP science scales. Scale scores for students at each grade level range from about 105 for students at the 10th percentile to about 192 for students at the 90th percentile.
More work needs to be done to see if the gains are sustained.
The study the Times was talking about was conducted by Harvard professor Paul E. Peterson . He writes about his research on the Milwaukee choice program in an article titled The Case for Choice , published in the May-June edition of Harvard Magazine . If they can be generalized and extrapolated to 12 years, much of the national difference in the reading performance of whites and minorities could be eliminated. All of the differences in math performance could be erased. A gold mine of information for private schools is the U.S. Department of Education's publication Serving Private School Students With Federal Education Programs .