The Education Gap: Vouchers and Urban Schools

By William G. Howell, P. Peterson. 2003

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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): “, 1998) and the New York City school voucher experiment (Howell and Peterson, 2002; Krueger and Zhu, 2004) report a range of estimated effects from no improvement to small gains, with effects sensitive to sample decisions, and varying across students’ gender and race.”
School Choice and Competitive Incentives: Mapping the Distribution of Educational Opportunities across Local Education Markets (2009, background): “On “market theory” in education, see Davies et al. (2006); Howell and Peterson (2002); Walberg (2000); Walberg and Bast (2003).”
The Role of School Improvement in Economic Development (2007, neutral): “…publicly funded school vouchers in Milwaukee, Cleveland, and Washington, DC, to privately financed voucher alternatives.77 The evaluations of these generally show that the choice schools do at least as well as the regular public schools, if not better (see Rouse (1998), Howell and Peterson (2002)).”
Parent preferences and parent choices: the public–private decision about school choice (2008, background): “Private schools are available to a broader group of parents because of the increasing availability of private-school vouchers that are targeted to low-income households in low-income, high minority school districts (Howell and Peterson 2002).”
Does Segregation Still Matter? The Impact of Student Composition on Academic Achievement in High School (2005, background): “According to Jencks and Mayer (1990), students with high achievement and motivation levels can help create a ‘‘culture of success’’ in school, while students with low achievement and motivation levels can create a sense of deprivation and despair.”
School choice, racial segregation, and test-score gaps: Evidence from North Carolina's charter school program (2007, background): “exhibited statistically significant positive gains in test scores (Howell et al. 2002; Howell and Peterson 2002).”
Randomized Experiments in Educational Policy Research: A Critical Examination of the Reasons the Educational Evaluation Community has Offered for not Doing Them (2002, methodology): “On vouchers there is a study by Witte (1998), sometimes re-analyzed (Greene, Peterson, Du, Boeger, & Frazier, 1996; Rouse, 1998), plus a program of research by Peterson and colleagues in several sites (Howell & Peterson, 2002).”
Feeling the Florida Heat? How Low-Performing Schools Respond to Voucher and Accountability Pressure. Working Paper 13. (2007, background): “The evidence on market-based reforms is also mixed (see, e.g., Howell and Peterson (2002), Krueger and Pei (2004), and Rouse (1998) for evidence from voucher programs).”
Independent Schools and Long-Run Educational Outcomes - Evidence from Sweden's Large Scale Voucher Reform (2015, neutral): “Hoxby (2003) and Chakrabarti (2008) study the degree of vouchers offered to low-income students in the Milwaukee public schools and compare, in a difference-”