Academic

Barrow & Rouse on School Vouchers

By Lawrence Solum

Lisa Barrow and Cecilia E. Rouse (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and Princeton University - Industrial Relations Section) have posted School Vouchers: Recent Findings and Unanswered Questions (Economic Perspectives, Vol. 32, No. 3, 2008) on SSRN.  Here is the abstract:

The authors review the existing literature on the impact of school vouchers on student achievement. They conclude that expectations about the ability of vouchers to drastically improve student achievement, at least as measured by test scores, should be tempered by the results of the studies to date. Also, there is very little evidence about the potential for public schools to respond to increased competitive pressure generated by vouchers.

Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on September 19, 2008 (boomark / email).