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...last week's press release by Mathematica called the validity of the study into doubt, questioning Peterson's use of data. The release prompted Kate Zernicke's article, "New Doubt is Cast on Study that Backs Voucher Effects," in Friday's Times...

Author: By Nathaniel L. Schwartz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Professor Defends Voucher Study Against Attack | 9/19/2000 | See Source »

Peterson's findings were quickly picked up by voucher supporters and lauded as some of the first genuine evidence in favor of the use of vouchers...

Author: By Nathaniel L. Schwartz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Professor Defends Voucher Study Against Attack | 9/19/2000 | See Source »

Peterson said some questions do remain over exactly how to interpret the data from his study, but added that there is no controversy over the importance of the findings to the voucher debate...

Author: By Nathaniel L. Schwartz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Professor Defends Voucher Study Against Attack | 9/19/2000 | See Source »

Research into voucher education currently remains thin--a necessary consequence of the relative novelty of vouchers, Peterson said...

Author: By Nathaniel L. Schwartz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Professor Defends Voucher Study Against Attack | 9/19/2000 | See Source »

Even so, that term--voucher--has proved to be radioactive in politics. Former candidate Bill Bradley learned that lesson when Gore used the word to paint Bradley's health-care plan as a paltry handout. There is a long history of such scorching moments in fights over health-care reform, particularly when they involve Medicare, a program that is literally a life-and-death matter to the nation's most engaged voting bloc, the elderly. Gingrich found out the hard way as he tried to restructure the program in 1995 to squeeze hundreds of billions of dollars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Issues 2000: Bush and Gore: Whose Pill Is Sweetest? | 9/18/2000 | See Source »

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