The education gap : vouchers and urban schools / William G. Howell, Paul E. Peterson, with Patrick J. Wolf and David E. Campbell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Howell, William G.

Contributor:

Peterson, Paul E.

Wolf, Patrick J.

Campbell, David E., 1971-

Brookings Institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Educational vouchers--United States.

Educational vouchers.

School choice--United States.

School choice.

Education, Urban--United States.

Education, Urban.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxix, 323 pages)

Edition:

Rev. ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2006.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

School choice and American democracy

Evaluating voucher programs

Seeking and using a voucher

Attending urban schools

Social consequences

The urban test score gap

Satisfaction with urban schools

Vouchers and urban schools.

1. School choice and American democracy

2. Evaluating voucher programs

3. Seeking and using a voucher

4. Attending urban schools

5. Social consequences

6. The urban test score gap

7. Satisfaction with urban schools

8. Vouchers and urban schools.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-313) and index.