Caroline M. Hoxby is professor of economics at Harvard University and a research associate
of the National Bureau of Economic Research. ercises school choice? Who chooses which …

The notion that free choice is good is one of the foundations of modern, market-oriented
societies. This view is prominent in the school choice debate, where there is a widespread …

In a variety of forms, school choice is making gains in America's K--12 school systems. At
one end of the spectrum are open-enrollment programs that allow students to switch from …

Two issues dominate the school choice debate: whether competition would make schools
more productive, and whether choice would result in sorting or stratification. In trying to …

Milton Friedman argued that giving parents freedom to choose schools would improve
education. His argument was simple and compelling because it extended results from …

Perhaps no school reform has generated as much interest and controversy in recent years
as the proposal to have parents select their children's schools. Opponents of school choice …

The most frequently asked questions about school choice are: Do public schools respond
constructively to competition induced by school choice, by raising their own productivity …

Using data drawn from NELS88, this paper attempts to help answer the question of whether
public-private school choice is a policy that would help improve the overall achievement of …

Opponents of school choice often take the view that schools can be “only so good,” so that
what some students gain, other students must lose. This view of schools becomes most …

The debate about school choice continues in the absence of much data about its effects on
student achievement, or on anything else. This volume assembles such data. The papers in …