Jeff Reed, spokesman for the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice, said 530, 000 Indiana students qualify for vouchers.

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Previously only allowed to pay for college education from personal funds, the new-fangled ESA allows parents to apply public school funding earmarked for their child to the educational services of their choice.

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The idea of giving parents vouchers to rescue their children from chronically underperforming schools is unlikely to survive, despite mounting evidence that school choice improves the educational chances of poor children (see Economics focus).

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But if Britain is to help its educational under-achievers, school choice must play a big part.

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Charter and choice schools are nudging up educational performance.

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The initial findings from Dayton and Washington indicate that school choice will sharply reduce, if not eliminate, differences in educational performance between black and white students.

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The choice of programs -- shows produced in-house and educational and other specialized fare less likely to appeal to lower class viewers -- contributed to the high rate of people signing up and then dropping the service.

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With few jobs and educational options, many in the developing world start businesses because they have no other choice.

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Tablets are sure to become more widespread in educational settings, and a library of the kind Apple has amassed makes the iPad the logical choice.

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The Department for Education and Skills said, in line with its commitment to offer greater degrees of parental choice, it was working with the Steiner group to explore "different, but effective, educational principles".

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