Authors: E. Cohn
ISBN-13: 9780080425672, ISBN-10: 0080425674
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Date Published: April 1997
Edition: (Non-applicable)
The book contains a number of essays that address the recent debate on school choice and vouchers. In addition to papers that provide opinions on the role of government in education, the book offers a number of papers that analyze many of the issues employing advanced econometric techniques. Efforts have been made to balance arguments made by authors by including opposing views.
The book will contain three major parts. Part 1, Theory and Practice of Choice in Education, offers a discussion of the economic rationale for government interference in schooling and opposing views on private school choice and vouchers, whether educational production is not conducive for the creation of for-profit organizations, and a simulation study to discern, among others, the effect of choice on educational opportunity.
Part II, Are Private Schools Superior to Public Schools, contains several studies which compare achievement in public and private (especially parochial) schools, and what implications such results have for market approaches.
Part III, Empirical Studies of School Choice and Vouchers, contains research from several countries (US, Europe, Japan) concerning the success and failure of school choice programs.
About the Editor | ||
Preface | ||
Acknowledgements | ||
Introduction | 1 | |
Public and Private School Choices: Theoretical Considerations and Empirical Evidence | 3 | |
Pt. I | Theory and Practice of Choice in Education | 21 |
1 | The Economics of Educational Choice | 23 |
2 | Public Schools and Excess Burden | 57 |
3 | Why Governments Run Schools | 75 |
4 | Educational Choice (Vouchers) and Social Mobility | 97 |
5 | An Application of a Structural Model of School Demand and Supply to Evaluate Alternative Designs of Voucher Education Systems | 127 |
6 | Charter Schools: A Viable Public School Choice Option? | 153 |
Pt. II | Are Private Schools Superior to Public Schools? | 171 |
7 | Achievement Growth in Public and Catholic High Schools | 173 |
8 | Comparing Public and Private Schools: The Puzzling Role of Selectivity Bias | 213 |
9 | Private School Versus Public School Achievement: Are There Findings That Affect the Educational Choice Debate? | 239 |
10 | Politics, Markets and the Organization of Schools | 275 |
11 | The Relative Effectiveness of Private and Public Schools: Evidence From Two Developing Countries | 305 |
12 | Comparing the Costs of Government and Private Primary Education in Thailand | 329 |
Pt. III | Empirical Studies of School Choice and Vouchers | 351 |
13 | Who Benefits from Educational Choice? Some evidence from Europe | 353 |
14 | Evaluating the Public Support for Educational Vouchers: A Case Study | 381 |
15 | Primary and Secondary School Choice Among Public and Religious Alternatives | 393 |
16 | Alert and Inert Clients: The Scottish Experience of Parental Choice of Schools | 425 |
17 | The Rise and Fall of Choice in Richmond, California | 443 |
18 | School Choice Policy in France: Success and Limitations | 465 |
19 | Benefits and Costs of Privatized Public Services: Lessons from the Dutch Educational System | 479 |
20 | A Look at Choice in the Netherlands | 499 |
21 | Choices of Education in Japan | 511 |
Index | 527 |