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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For the people who discredit the report because it was a capstone report, please read the report.  After you read it, please tell us why one should not believe its conclusion.   Did the report cherry picked the data?  Did the author use murky stats? Was the conclusion not based on facts?

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Read this one, and then please tell us why one should not believe its conclusion.

https://tcf.org/assets/downloads/tcf-Schwartz.pdf[/quote]

Because it's a non-published, non-peer reviewed report from an organization with an agenda.  It's clear from this report that they crunched the data until they found a "threshold" at which they could write a report that fit their agenda.[/quote]

It's a non-published, non-peer reviewed report from a person who [b]probably[/b] doesn't have an agenda.

The century paper is bad though.  It's just curve fitting without confidence bounds. [b]The government tried something similar (much larger scale though) with the "Moving to opportunity " program and found no educational benefits.[/b][/quote]

[i]A Summary Overview of Moving to Opportunity:   A Random Assignment Housing Mobility Study in Five U.S. Cities AbstractThe U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Moving to Opportunity (MTO) for Fair Housing program is a unique experimental research demonstration designed to answer the question of whether moving from a high-poverty neighborhood to a lower-poverty community improves the social and economic prospects of low-income families. Authorized by the U.S. Congress in 1992, MTO made use of rental assistance vouchers, in combination with intensive housing search and counseling services, to assist low-income families to move from some of America’s most distressed urban neighborhoods to lower-poverty communities. A total of 4,600 low-income families with children, the vast majority of them headed by African-American or Hispanic single mothers, were recruited from high-poverty public housing projects in five participating cities between 1994 and 1998. These families were assigned by lottery to one of three research groups: A Traditional Voucher group, a Low Poverty Voucher group and a control group. Because of the random assignment design, the MTO study generates comparable groups of adults and children living in different types of neighborhoods, so that a comparison of outcomes across research groups can uncover the potential effects of neighborhood characteristics across a range of family and children’s outcomes. Among the households assigned to the Low Poverty Voucher group, 47 percent used a MTO voucher to relocate to a low-poverty neighborhood, while 62 percent of those assigned to the Traditional Voucher group relocated through MTO. A follow-up study carried out 4 to 7 years after random assignment found that: ?MTO improved neighborhood outcomes. Assignment to either of the MTO mobility groups led participating adults to feel safer and more satisfied with their housing and neighborhoods. ?MTO had no effect on the labor market outcomes or social program participation of adults, but improved adults’ mental health as well as several important aspects of physical health.?MTO improved outcomes for female youth, particularly their mental health, but on balance had deleterious effects on male youth risky behavior. ?MTO had no detectable effects on the math and reading achievement of children. 
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Seems like a good program, even if it didn't increase scores on standardized tests.

https://www.nber.org/mtopublic/MTO%20Overview%20Summary.pdf[/quote]

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