Critique of "An Evaluation of the Florida a-Plus Accountability and School Choice Program"
Document Type
Review Article
Publication Date
3-4-2001
Journal / Book Title
Education Policy Analysis Archives
Abstract
In 1999, Florida adopted the "A-Plus" accountability system, which included a provision that allowed students in certain low-performing schools to receive school vouchers. In a recently released report, An Evaluation of the Florida A-Plus Accountability and School Choice Program (Greene, 2001a), the author argued that early evidence from this program strongly implies that the program has led to significant improvement on test scores in schools threatened with vouchers. However, a careful analysis of Greene's findings and the Florida data suggests that these strong effects may be largely due to sample selection, regression to the mean, and problems related to the aggregation of test score results.
DOI
10.14507/epaa.v9n7.2001
Montclair State University Digital Commons Citation
Camilli, Gregory and Bulkley, Katrina, "Critique of "An Evaluation of the Florida a-Plus Accountability and School Choice Program"" (2001). Department of Educational Leadership Scholarship and Creative Works. 12.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/educ-leadership-facpubs/12