Charter schools elevate choice and competition to foster educational innovations. Indeed,
these market-style mechanisms are intended to challenge standardized practices …

This report discusses the most relevant issues concerning school choice schemes, and how
they intertwine with equity considerations, through a literature review and analysis of the …

En este libro se analizan dos de los rasgos más sobresalientes de la educación chilena,
íntimamente relacionados entre sí: su elevado nivel de privatización y el hecho de …

This paper presents an empirical analysis of the socioeconomic status (SES) school
segregation in Chile, whose educational system is regarded as an extreme case of a market …

Education privatization is a global phenomenon that has crystallized in countries with very
different cultural, political, and economic backgrounds. In this book, the authors examine …

We review the theoretical, computational, and empirical research on school vouchers, with a
focus on the latter. Our assessment is that the evidence to date is not sufficient to warrant …

Este trabajo analiza la segregación de la población escolar en Chile en dos dimensiones: la
segregación socioeconómica y la segregación académica, materia de enorme interés dado …

In 1981, Chile introduced nationwide school choice by providing vouchers to any student
wishing to attend private school. As a result, more than 1000 private schools entered the …

This paper analyzes the socioeconomic stratification of achievement in the Chilean voucher
system using a census of 4th and 8th graders, a multilevel methodology, and accounting for …

The American Dream and the Public Schools examines issues that have excited and divided
Americans for years, including desegregation, school funding, testing, vouchers, bilingual …