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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Howell, William G.
Collectivité auteur: Brookings Institution
Autres auteurs: Peterson, Paul E., Wolf, Patrick J., Campbell, David E., 1971-
Format: Licensed eBooks
Langue:anglais
Publié: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press ©2006.
Édition:Rev. ed.
Accès en ligne:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7864/j.ctt128086
Table des matières:
  • 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.