What You Should Know About School Choice

Описание: Are you skeptical of school choice programs? Do words like private schools, charter schools, vouchers, and tax credits make you uneasy? If so, Prof. Angela Dills argues that there are four things that you should know about school choice before dismissing it as a viable improvement to our education system:

1. School choice doesn't require parents to bear the full cost of educating their child.
2. School choice lowers the cost of schooling.
3. School choice raises the quality of schooling.
4. Low income and minority students are more likely to benefit from school choice programs.

Dills argues that the American education system is failing our children. We have thrown money at the problem for years with little or no effect. School choice, when it has been tried, has lowered the cost of schooling while maintaining, or even improving, the quality of education.

► Sources:
"School Choice in New York City and Three Years: An Evaluation of the School Choice Scholarships Program" Daniel P. Mayer, Paul E. Peterson, David E. Myers, Christina Clark Tuttle, and William G. Howell
http://www.mathematica-mpr.com/public...

Julie Berry Cullen, Brian A. Jacob, and Steven Levitt (2006) "The Effect of School Choice on Participants: Evidence from Randomized Lotteries," Econometrica, 74(5), 1191-1230.

"More Choice, Less Crime," Angela Dills and Rey Hernández, Education Finance and Policy, Spring 2011, 6(2), 246-266.

"Public School Response to Special Education Vouchers: The Impact of Florida's McKay Scholarship Program on Disability Diagnosis and Student Achievement in Public Schools" Jay P. Greene and Marcus Winters
http://www.uark.edu/ua/der/People/Gre...

Howell "School Choice in New York City and Three Years: An Evaluation of the School Choice Scholarships Program" by Daniel P. Mayer, Paul E. Peterson, David E. Myers, Christina Clark Tuttle, and William G.
http://www.mathematica-mpr.com/public...

William G. Howell, Patrick J. Wolf, David E. Campbell, and Paul E. Peterson (2002), "School Vouchers and Academic Performance: Results from Three Randomized Field Trials," Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 21(2), 191-217.

► Learn More
"The Effectiveness and Efficiency of Private Schools in Chile's Voucher System," by Patrick J McEwan and Martin Cornoy
http://epa.sagepub.com/content/22/3/2...

"Vouchers for Private Schooling in Colombia: Evidence from a Randomized Natural Experiment" by Joshua Angrist, Eric Bettinger, Erik Bloom, Elizabeth King, and Michael Kremer
http://econ-www.mit.edu/files/24

Hoxby, Caroline M., ed. (2003) The Economics of School Choice, NBER, University of Chicago Press. The book is available on-line here: http://www.nber.org/books/hox03-1


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