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(The Center Square) – As school choice bills continue to make their way through state legislatures, a report on student achievement published by the University of Arkansas’s Department of Education
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Nebraska’s Education Choice Opportunity
Nebraska students’ scores on each NAEP test dropped significantly, the Urban Institute found. The achievement gap for the state s students is wider than the national average and growing. It s time to try something different. (Photo: Will and Deni McIntyre/Getty Images)
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Lindsey M. Burke is director of The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Education Policy and Mark A. Kolokotrones fellow in education. Read her research.
At first glance, Nebraska’s K-12 education system seems to be doing fairly well. On the fourth- and eighth-grade math and reading components of the 2019 National Assessment for Educational Progress, Nebraska students scored slightly above average overall.
Charter schools proved more cost effective and yielded a greater return on investment than traditional public schools in seven cities, according to a new report led by Coorey DeAngelis and Patrick Wolf.