The voucher debate has been both intense and ideologically polarizing, in good part because so little is known about how voucher programs operate in practice. In The Education Gap, William Howell and Paul Peterson report new findings drawn from the most comprehensive study on vouchers conducted to date. Added to the paperback edition of this groundbreaking volume are the authors' insights into the latest school choice developments in American education, including new voucher initiatives, charter school expansion, and public-school choice under No Child Left Behind. The authors review the...
The voucher debate has been both intense and ideologically polarizing, in good part because so little is known about how voucher programs operate i...
Those opposed to school choice in the United States worry that it will help erode shared civic values, to which proponents often rejoin that many of the advanced liberal democracies of Europe extensively subsidize parental choice without such concerns. Wolf (public policy, Georgetown U.) and Macedo (politics, Princeton U.) present country studies f
Those opposed to school choice in the United States worry that it will help erode shared civic values, to which proponents often rejoin that many of t...
This in-depth chronicle of 110 families in Washington, DC's Opportunity Scholarship Program provides a realistic look at how urban families experience the process of using school choice vouchers and transform from government clients to consumers of education and active citizens.
This in-depth chronicle of 110 families in Washington, DC's Opportunity Scholarship Program provides a realistic look at how urban families experience...
