School Vouchers: A Critical View

By Helen F. Ladd. 2002

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Subfields: Education, Sociology and Political Science

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Bringing the Schools Back in: The Stratification of Educational Achievement in the Chilean Voucher System. (2012, background): “Critics worry that voucher schools will skim off students with higher performance and more socioeconomic resources, furthering segregation without improving overall educational outcomes (Ladd, 2002; Fiske and Ladd, 2000; Levin, 1998; Henig, 1994).”
INCENTIVES, CHOICE, AND ACCOUNTABILITY IN THE PROVISION OF PUBLIC SERVICES (2003, background): “12 See Ladd (2002) and Hoxby (2003) for a review of the evidence in the context of education. school vouchers which are often rejected on grounds of inequity (see Ladd, 2002).”
School Vouchers: A Survey of the Economics Literature (2017, neutral): “27 This description is based on Ladd and Fiske (2001); Adams (2009); and Lubienski, Lee, and Gordon (2013).”
Choosing for quality or inequality: current perspectives on the implementation of school choice policy in Sweden (2010, background): “In the USA, Ladd (2002), Wells (2002) and Nelson, Rosenberg, and van Meter (2004) have shown that students in charter schools have lower achievement on test scores than public schools.”
International Evidence on School Competition, Autonomy, and Accountability: A Review (2007, background): “Critics particularly fear sorting and adverse effects on disadvantagedstudents (e.g.,Burgess,McConnell,Propper,&Wilson,2007; Cullen, Jacob, & Levitt, 2005; Ladd, 2002), although the evidence sometimes even points in the opposite direction of equalizing effects (e.g., Hoxby, 2003b; Nechyba, 2000).”