How do parents choose schools, and what schools do they choose? A literature review of private school choice programs in the United States

HH Erickson - School choice: Separating fact from fiction, 2020 - taylorfrancis.com
I review the literature on how parents select schools when participating in private choice
programs in the United States. I address two sub-questions. First, do parents have the …

A review of the empirical research on private school choice

AJ Egalite, PJ Wolf - Peabody Journal of Education, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Parents in the United States have had the legal right to choose the school their child attends
for a long time. Traditionally, parental school choice took the form of families moving to a …

School vouchers: A survey of the economics literature

D Epple, RE Romano, M Urquiola - Journal of Economic Literature, 2017 - aeaweb.org
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 …

School Vouchers and Student Outcomes: Experimental Evidence from W ashington, DC

PJ Wolf, B Kisida, B Gutmann, M Puma… - Journal of Policy …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
School vouchers are the most contentious form of parental school choice. Vouchers provide
government funds that parents can use to send their children to private schools of their …

Schulautonomie und die Folgen

H Altrichter, M Rürup, C Schuchart - Handbuch Neue Steuerung im …, 2016 - Springer
Zusammenfassung Die Idee einer „Schulautonomisierung “, durch die den Einzelschulen
erweiterte Handlungsspielräume zur Gestaltung ihrer Arbeit und ihrer Angebote eröffnet …

Key issues in education and social justice

E Smith - 2018 - torrossa.com
This book is about fairness in education. The first edition of the book was completed in 2011,
the second in the autumn of 2017. In 2011, Britain was just starting to see the consequences …

Impact of the Indiana Choice Scholarship Program: Achievement effects for students in upper elementary and middle school

RJ Waddington, M Berends - Journal of Policy Analysis and …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
This paper examines the impact of the Indiana Choice Scholarship Program on student
achievement for low‐income students in upper elementary and middle school who used a …

What leads to successful school choice programs: A review of the theories and evidence

CA DeAngelis, HH Erickson - Cato J., 2018 - HeinOnline
There is a large body of research showing many positive benefits of school choice.
However, many questions remain on how school choice works. Rigorous school choice …

Vouchers in the bayou: The effects of the Louisiana Scholarship Program on student achievement after 2 years

JN Mills, PJ Wolf - Educational Evaluation and Policy …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
The Louisiana Scholarship Program (LSP) offers publicly funded vouchers to students in low-
performing schools with family income no greater than 250% of the poverty line, allowing …

Supplying choice: An analysis of school participation decisions in voucher programs in Washington, DC, Indiana, and Louisiana

Y Sude, CA DeAngelis, PJ Wolf - Journal of School Choice, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Since school voucher funds are public, policymakers fiercely debate how those funds should
be spent. A goal of many decision-makers is to ensure that every private school option is …