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Kristopher Nordstrom

North Carolina Justice Center

Kristopher Nordstrom is an Education Finance and Policy Consultant at the North Carolina Justice Center. Prior to working with the Justice Center, Kris spent nine years with the North Carolina General Assembly’s nonpartisan Fiscal Research Division, where he provided budget analysis and information to all members of the General Assembly on public education issues.  Kris holds a Master of Public Policy from the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University and BA in Economics from Wake Forest University.

NEPC Publications

Reviews Worth Sharing: An Impact Analysis of North Carolina's Opportunity Scholarship Program on Student Achievement (June 2018)

Kristopher Nordstrom
https://ced.ncsu.edu/elphd/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/OS-Test-Score-Imp…
Anna J. Egalite, D.T. Stallings, & Stephen R. Porter
An Impact Analysis of North Carolina's Opportunity Scholarship Program on Student Achievement

Normally, when somebody hears about an evaluation of an education program, they reasonably assume the evaluation will tell them whether the program is working or not. When reading an evaluation report, policymakers, parents, and educators hope the evaluation will tell them if the program is helping the participating students. These seem like obvious, uncontroversial points.

On Monday, June 4, researchers from NC State released a working paper, An Impact Analysis of North Carolina’s Opportunity Scholarship Program on Student Achievement, which purports to be an evaluation of North Carolina’s largest private school voucher program. The authors enthusiastically publicized and distributed the report, making sure to provide advance copies to media organizations and a pro-voucher advocacy group. The report has been highlighted by all of the state’s major media outlets.

But there’s a problem: the report fails to tell us whether the Opportunity Scholarship program is working. The researchers’ efforts tell us nothing about whether accepting an Opportunity Scholarship will help or harm a student’s education.

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