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School vouchers：Going public
Private schools are ailing in Washington, DC. That is a goodsign
IMAGINE you are a poor parent in Washington, DC. You assumed you would send your child to a public school. But you have been offered a voucher worth up to $12,000 towards tuition at aprivate one. Should you use it?
Until recently the evidence suggested that you should. In 2004 Congress created the DC Opportunity Scholarship Program, the first school-voucher scheme directly subsidized by the federal government (states and charities subsidies many others). Since then up to 2,000 families a year have been handed vouchers to attend private school after winning lotteries. In 2010 a study found that 82% of pupils offered a voucher went on to graduate from high school, compared with 70% of similar peers who attended public schools.
Studies of Milwaukee, which introduced vouchers in 1990,have found similar effects on graduation rates. A 2015 study of a privately funded program in New York found that blacks who received vouchers had higher rates of college enrollment. In Vermont the value of a house is higher if it is in an area that offers school vouchers, suggesting that parents will pay to become eligible for them.
Yet evidence is piling up on the other side. In the past two years studies of Louisiana and Ohio have found that pupils using a voucher did worse on state tests than peers at public schools. A recent literature review concluded that “the effects of vouchers have been disappointing relative to early views on their promise”.
词汇整理
1.
School voucher
① 学校券
e.g. Aschool voucher, also called an education voucher, is a certificate of funding issued by the government, which parents would be able to apply toward tuition at a private school (or, by extension, to reimburse home schooling expenses), rather than at the state school to which their child is assigned.
② 代币券; 购物券
e.g. A voucher is a ticket or piece of paper that can be used instead of money to pay for something.
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coupon 优惠券 A coupon is a piece of printed paper which allows you to pay less money than usual for a product, or to get it free.
3.
ailingorganization 每况愈下的 An ailingorganization or society is in difficulty and is becoming weaker.
4.
tuition 学费 You can use tuition to refer to the amount of money that you have to pay for being taught in a university, college,or private school.
5.
lottery 靠运气的事 If you describe something as a lottery, you mean that what happens depends entirely on luck or chance.
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Milwaukee 密尔沃基 largestcity of Wisconsin; located in southeastern Wisconsin on the western shore of Lake Michigan; a flourishing agricultural center known for its breweries
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Vermont (美国的)佛蒙特州(在美国东北部)
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be eligible to do 有资格的 Someonewho is eligible to dosomething is qualified or able to do it, for example, because they are old enough.
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Louisiana 路易斯安那州 a state in southern United States on the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War
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Ohio 俄亥俄州 a Midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region
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