The education gap : vouchers and urban schools /

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 d...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Howell, William G.
Corporate Author: Brookings Institution
Other Authors: Peterson, Paul E., Wolf, Patrick J., Campbell, David E., 1971-
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press ©2006.
Edition:Rev. ed.
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7864/j.ctt128086
Table of 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.