School choice is often promoted as a means of increasing competition in the school system
(Friedman 1955). It is believed that competition will lead to efficiency gains as public and …

Since the 1980s, as part of a broader market-oriented agenda, school choice and vouchers
have become an increasingly important part of America's educational reform policy debate …

Education is currently at the forefront of the nation's political agenda: Everyone, regardless
of political persuasion, wants to see an improvement in American schools' performance …

School choice has been one of the great successes of the education-reform movement in
recent years, and taxpayer-funded vouchers have been one of the movement's primary …

Debate about school choice and educational vouchers has centered on vouchers' effects on
student outcomes. However, too often the debate has not considered the determining role of …

While educators, parents and policymakers are still debating the pros and cons of school
choice, it is now possible to learn from choice experiments in public, private, and charter …

If school vouchers bettered the educational opportunities only of children who use the
vouchers to attend private schools or schools in another district, many reformers would be …

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 …

On every continent, governments have decided that giving parents more choices among
schools is an appropriate policy response to educational problems. Voucher programs now …

School choice has recieved increasing attention from scholars and policy-makers. We
review the rationales for government financing and provision of education and the …