The Education Gap
eBook - PDF

The Education Gap

Vouchers and Urban Schools

  1. 299 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Education Gap

Vouchers and Urban Schools

About this book

The voucher debate has been both intense and ideologically polarizing, in good part because so little is known about how voucher programs operate in practice. In The Education Gap, William Howell and Paul Peterson report new findings drawn from the most comprehensive study on vouchers conducted to date. Added to the paperback edition of this groundbreaking volume are the authors' insights into the latest school choice developments in American education, including new voucher initiatives, charter school expansion, and public-school choice under No Child Left Behind. The authors review the significance of state and federal court decisions as well as recent scholarly debates over choice impacts on student performance. In addition, the authors present new findings on which parents choose private schools and the consequences the decision has for their children's education. Updated and expanded, The Education Gap remains an indispensable source of original research on school vouchers. ""This is the most important book ever written on the subject of vouchers.""—John E. Brandl, dean, Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota ""The Education Gap will provide an important intellectual battleground for the debate over vouchers for years to come.""—Alan B. Krueger, Princeton University ""Must reading for anyone interested in the battle over vouchers in America.""—John Witte, University of Wisconsin

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Chapter 1: School Choice and American Democracy
  9. Chapter 2: Evaluation Voucher Programs
  10. Chapter 3: Seeking and Using a Voucher
  11. Chapter 4: Attending Urban Schools
  12. Chapter 5: Social Consequences
  13. Chapter 6: The Urban Test Score Gap
  14. Chapter 7: Satisfaction with Urban Schools
  15. Chapter 8: Vouchers and Urban Schools
  16. Appendix A: Response Rates
  17. Appendix B: Construction of Survey Indexes
  18. Appendix C: Test Scores of Applicants to Voucher Programs
  19. Appendix D: The Noisy Data Problem
  20. Notes
  21. Index
  22. Back Cover