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New York Times
May 6, 2003
Education Section
...In the midst of the Bush-Gore presidential race...Paul E. Peterson released a study saying that school vouchers significantly improved test scores of black children...
The Harvard professor appeared on CNN and "The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer." Conservative editorial writers and columnists, including William Safire of The Times, cited the Peterson study as proof that vouchers were the answer for poor blacks, that Al Gore (a voucher opponent) was out of touch with his black Democratic constituency and that George W. Bush had it right.
"The facts are clear and persuasive: school vouchers work," The Boston Herald editorialized on Aug. 30, 2000. "If candidates looked at facts, this one would be a no-brainer for Gore."
[But]...a Princeton economist...recently concluded [using Peterson's data] that Peterson had it all wrong — that not even the black students using vouchers had made any test gains...It is scary how many prominent thinkers in this nation of 290 million were ready to make new policy from a single study that appears to have gone from meaningful to meaningless...
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