Choice with Equity An Assessment of the Koret Task Force on K–12 Education

by Hill, Paul T.

• ISBN13: 9780817938925
• ISBN10: 0817938923
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-04-01
• Publisher: Hoover Institution Press

Summary

This review of the furious national debate over school choice examines the benefits of choice for children, families, and schools—and shows how properly designed choice programs can prevent the harmful outcomes opponents fear.

Author Biography

Williamson M. Evers is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and a member of the Institution's Koret Task Force on K-12 Education. He specializes in research on education policy - especially as it pertains to curriculum, teaching, testing, and accountability from kindergarten through high school. From July to December 2003, he served as senior adviser for education to Administrator L. Paul Bremer of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq. Herbert J. Walberg is a distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution and a member of its Task Force on K–12 Education, is University Scholar and emeritus professor of education and psychology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His research focuses on educational productivity and human accomplishments.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
John Raisian
Introduction	1	(14)
Paul T. Hill
Baselines for Assessment of Choice Programs	15	(36)
Paul T. Hill
Kacey Guin
Who Chooses? Who Uses? Participation in a National School Voucher Program	51	(34)
Paul E. Peterson
David E. Campbell
Martin R. West
A Supply-Side View of Student Selectivity	85	(36)
John E. Chubb
Will Quality of Peers Doom Those Left in the Public Schools?	121	(20)
Eric A. Hanushek
How School Choice Affects the Achievement of Public School Students	141	(38)
Caroline M. Hoxby
The Structure of School Choice	179	(34)
Terry M. Moe
Contributors	213	(4)
Index	217