The Education Gap: Vouchers and Urban Schools, Revised Edition
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 date.\ Added to the paperback edition of this groundbreaking volume are the authors' insights into the latest school choice developments in American education, including new voucher initiatives,...
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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 date. Added to the paperback edition of this groundbreaking volume are the authors' insights into the latest school choice developments in American education, including new voucher initiatives, charter school expansion, and public-school choice under No Child Left Behind. The authors review the significance of state and federal court decisions as well as recent scholarly debates over choice impacts on student performance. In addition, the authors present new findings on which parents choose private schools and the consequences the decision has for their children's education. Updated and expanded, The Education Gap remains an indispensable source of original research on school vouchers. American Journal of Education "Howell and Peterson have set a very high standard not only for voucher research but for the evaluation of educational reforms more generally. . . . Their usage of sophisticated methodologies and their breadth of outcome measurements establish this as the definitive scholarly work on voucher programs in the United States."
Preface to the Paperback Edition Preface to the First Edition Acknowledgments 1 School Choice and American Democracy 2 Evaluating Voucher Programs 3 Seeking and Using a Voucher 4 Attending Urban Schools 5 Social Consequences 6 The Urban Test Score Gap 7 Satisfaction with Urban Schools 8 Vouchers and Urban Schools Afterword
\ American Journal of Education"Howell and Peterson have set a very high standard not only for voucher research but for the evaluation of educational reforms more generally. . . . Their usage of sophisticated methodologies and their breadth of outcome measurements establish this as the definitive scholarly work on voucher programs in the United States."\ \ \ \ \ Journal of Politics"A major contribution of this study lies in its application of randomized field trials . . . [which] are rarely used in educational research."\ \ \ Perspectives on Politics"Howell and Peterson have made a tremendous contribution to the study of small-scale voucher programs and their consequences. The methods and findings presented in The Education Gap establish a new standard of excellence in policy research and lay the ground for even more carefully calibrated future work."\ \
