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The education gap : vouchers and urban schools
- Title
- The education gap : vouchers and urban schools / William G. Howell, Paul E. Peterson, with Patrick J. Wolf and David E. Campbell.
- Author
- Howell, William G.
- Publication
- Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, ©2002.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | LB2828.8 .H69 2002 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Peterson, Paul E.
- Description
- xix, 275 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "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, with coauthors Patrick Wolf and David Campbell, report new findings drawn from the most comprehensive study on vouchers conducted to date." "The result of a massive research enterprise, the book presents data from randomized field trials conducted in New York City; Dayton, Ohio; and Washington, D.C. It also includes findings from a voucher initiative in the Edgewood school district in San Antonio and a randomized field trial evaluation of a program that offered vouchers to 40,000 low-income families nationwide." "The findings shed new light on how existing voucher programs affect students' educational experiences, covering factors such as school climate, class size, homework, resources, and test scores. They also reveal the impact of voucher programs on racial segregation, school-family communication, political tolerance, community social capital, parental satisfaction, and children's self-esteem."--Jacket.
- Subject
- Educational vouchers > United States
- School choice > United States
- Education, Urban > United States
- Education, Urban
- Educational vouchers
- School choice
- Bildungsförderung
- Evaluation
- Schoolkeuze
- Achterstandsgebieden
- Steden
- Stimuleringsregelingen
- Subsidies
- Studieresultaten
- Evaluatie
- Education
- Social Sciences
- Theory & Practice of Education
- Education, Special Topics
- United States
- USA
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-265) and index.
- 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.
- ISBN
- 0815702140
- 9780815702146
- LCCN
- 2002002839
- OCLC
- ocm49249584
- 49249584
- SCSB-8904832
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library