Vouchers and charter schools aim to improve education by providing families with more choice in their children's schooling children and by decentralizing provision of educational services. This book reviews the theoretical foundations for vouchers and charter schools and presents new evidence of their effectiveness in academic achievement. It also examines outcomes in family choice, equitable access, racial/ethnic integration, and civic socialization. Recommendations are made for designing voucher and charter policies.
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BRIAN P. GILL (Ph.D. Jurisprudence and Social Policy: University of California at Berkeley) is an Associate Policy Analyst in Civil Justice and Education at RAND.
P. Michael Timpane (LL.D., Catholic University) is a Senior Advisor for Education Policy at RAND.
DOMINIC JAMES BREWER (Ph.D. in Labor Economics, Cornell University, May 1994) is the Director of RAND Education in Santa Monica, CA.
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This book reviews the evidence about so-called "choice" models of education or "free market" models and their impact on education. In the end the evidence shows nothing, but it doesn't refute anything either. What Gill shows us pretty convincingly is that, at the moment anyway, this is a debate driven by ideology rather than by evidence. No matter on which side one falls, one can interpret the evidence based upon their perspective, since the evidence is inconclusive. Like so many other debates in our society we have to move beyond the "classroom effects" and investigate what the proponents or opponents really have as their agenda. This is an excellent book simply because it is one of the first systemic reviews of the evidence as opposed to the ideological journalism with which we are most often confronted. No matter one's perspective, this book is worth reading, because it will alternately challenge and support one's views.
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Collaboratively written by Brian P. Gill, P. Michael Timpane, Karen E. Ross, and Dominic J. Brewer, Rhetoric Versus Reality: What We Know And What We Need To Know About Vouchers And Charter Schools is a straight-on, analytical, thoroughly serious study on the politically hot issue of school vouchers and charter schools in America today. From examples of voucher and charter systems currently in practice, to their effectiveness on academic achievement and existing empirical evidence on the results of school choice and more, Rhetoric Versus Reality covers almost every aspect of this critical issue in a dispassionate, fact-filled and thorough manner. This is highly recommended reading for parents, educators, and lawmakers wanting to learn more about these complex and heavily debated options for America's school systems.
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conventional public schools, education tax subsidies, operated voucher programs, civic socialization, existing voucher programs, common school model, key outcome dimensions, voucher mothers, charter programs, existing private schools, voucher users, targeted voucher programs, experimental voucher programs, voucher schools, voucher students, voucher studies, most charter schools, require open admissions, funded voucher programs, autonomous schooling, voucher applicants, voucher parents, different voucher, voucher threat, autonomous schools Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Legislative Audit Bureau, Supreme Court, Milton Friedman, New Zealand, Christopher Jencks, Scholarships Program, Study of Public Policy, Paul Hill, Amy Stuart Wells, Charter School Study, Jay Greene, Alum Rock, Chapters Three, North Carolina, California's Proposition, East Harlem, Florida's Opportunity Scholarship Program, Lawrence Pierce, Martin Carnoy, Bush Title, James Guthrie New!
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conventional public schools, education tax subsidies, operated voucher programs, civic socialization, existing voucher programs, common school model, key outcome dimensions, voucher mothers, charter programs, existing private schools, voucher users, targeted voucher programs, experimental voucher programs, voucher schools, voucher students, voucher studies, most charter schools, require open admissions, funded voucher programs, autonomous schooling, voucher applicants, voucher parents, different voucher, voucher threat, autonomous schools Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Legislative Audit Bureau, Supreme Court, Milton Friedman, New Zealand, Christopher Jencks, Scholarships Program, Study of Public Policy, Paul Hill, Amy Stuart Wells, Charter School Study, Jay Greene, Alum Rock, Chapters Three, North Carolina, California's Proposition, East Harlem, Florida's Opportunity Scholarship Program, Lawrence Pierce, Martin Carnoy, Bush Title, James Guthrie New!
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- The American Dream and the Public Schools by Jennifer L. Hochschild in Back Matter
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