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- Research on prior programs suggests that vouchers lead to small improvements in public schools. There is a large body of evidence suggesting that public schools get slightly better in response to competition from school vouchers, at least as measured by test scores.
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Nov 16, 2023 · School vouchers, or school choice as it's known among advocates, is public funding for children to attend private schools. It's a controversial policy — some say it undermines the public school...
- Darian Woods
Oct 1, 2021 · Do voucher programs offer benefits to participating students beyond test score impacts? The research finds consistent, positive impacts on the likelihood that high school students will graduate, that they will enroll in college, and recently and most promising, that they will earn a degree.
May 31, 2023 · Do school vouchers raise test scores or lower them? Do they damage public schools or push them to improve? Here's your cheat sheet to the big questions about school vouchers.
- Matt Barnum
School choice via vouchers is often promoted as a means of increasing competition in the school system. Advocates of the voucher system believe that competition will lead to efficiency gains, as schools – public and private – vie for students and try improving quality while reducing expenses.
- Harry A. Patrinos
School vouchers have long been promoted on the grounds that they improve access to quality educational options. However, recent studies have shown large, negative impacts of vouchers on student achievement.
Evidence on both small-scale and large-scale programs suggests that competition induced by vouchers leads public schools to improve. Moreover, research is making progress on understanding how vouchers may be designed to limit adverse effects from sorting, while preserving positive effects related to competition.
In this article, we review the empirical evidence on the impact of education vouchers on student achievement and briefly discuss the evidence from other forms of school choice.
