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Books on: school and vouchers

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Voucher Wars: Waging the Legal Battle over School Choice

Book by Clint Bolick; Cato Institute, 2003

Subjects:

Educational Vouchers--Law And Legislation--United States, School Choice--Law And Legislation--United States

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...Agostini v. Felton 2 that public school teachers could provide remedial...eligible students on religious school premises. To us, Agostini...constitutional question than vouchers, because it involved public school employees teaching in religious schools at government expense. That...
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The Case against School Vouchers

Book by Edd Doerr, Albert J. Menendez, John M. Swomley; Prometheus Books, 1996

Subjects:

Educational Vouchers--United States, School Choice--United States

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...Religious Liberty The Case against School Vouchers . Copyright 1995, 1996 by Americans...Data Doerr, Edd. The case against school vouchers / Edd Doerr, Albert J...Educational vouchers United States. 2. School choice United States. I. Menendez...
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The Great School Debate: Choice, Vouchers, and Charters

Book by Thomas L. Good, Jennifer S. Braden; Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2000

Subjects:

Charter Schools--United States, Education--United States--Evaluation, Educational Vouchers--United States, Privatization In Education--United States, School Choice--United States

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...The Emergence of School Vouchers and Choice in American Schools We saw in chapter...crisis or not, schools can be improved substantially...case for improving schools generally and then...related specifically to school vouchers. The next...
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Vouchers within Reason: A Child-Centered Approach to Education Reform

Book by James G. Dwyer; Cornell University Press, 2002

Subjects:

Educational Vouchers--Law And Legislation--United States, Educational Vouchers--United States, School Choice--United States

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...they would urge that voucher programs should include...good education. Yet voucher proponents are generally...attaching conditions to vouchers, some even to superficial...know little about how schools operate compete with...toughest on public school accountability. Why...academically. Supporters of vouchers are content to cite...students in private schools, while ignoring other...studies they like, voucher supporters assert...choice of a private school necessarily equates...
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The Market Approach to Education: An Analysis of America's First Voucher Program

Book by John F. Witte; Princeton University Press, 2000

Subjects:

Education, Urban--Wisconsin--Milwaukee--Case Studies, Educational Vouchers--Wisconsin--Milwaukee--Case Studies, School Choice--Wisconsin--Milwaukee--Case Studies

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...Paul T. 1995. Private Vouchers in New York City: The Student...Public and Private High Schools: The Impact of Communities...James Coleman. 1982. High School Achievement: Public, Catholic and Private Schools Compared. New York: Basic...1996. Evidence on Private School Vouchers: Effects on School...

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Journal Articles on: school and vouchers

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School Voucher Programs: What the Research Says about Parental School Choice

Journal article by Patrick J. Wolf; Brigham Young University Law Review, Vol. 2008, 2008

Subjects:

Education policy, Educational vouchers, Performance evaluation, Research, School choice, United States

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...the students are not voucher users, in order to...likely effects of voucher programs. As discussed...who attend private schools using vouchers are, on average...the typical public school student and thus dramatically...with their childs school if they have been given a voucher, we do not yet know...satisfied. The private schools that parents select using vouchers might be more effective...
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The Effects of Vouchers and Private Schools in Improving Academic Achievement: a Critique of Advocacy Research

Journal article by Christopher Lubienski, Peter Weitzel; Brigham Young University Law Review, Vol. 2008, 2008

Subjects:

Academic achievement, Education policy, Education reform, Educational vouchers, Private schools, School choice, United States

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...funds with them, voucher programs, in theory...public and private schools to improve. Although charter schools and open enrollment...competitive pressures, many school reformers believe vouchers are the best method...to attend private schools using vouchers were compared to non...Since the private school voucher students had, by...
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Private Voucher Schools and the First Amendment Right to Discriminate

Journal article by Michael Kavey; Yale Law Journal, Vol. 113, 2003

Subjects:

Church and state--Case notes, Discrimination in education--Case notes, Educational vouchers--Case notes, Freedom of religion--Case notes, Freedom of speech--Case notes, Private schools--Case notes, Zelman v. Simmons-Harris--536 U.S. 639 (2002)

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Entire Library

...of religious schools in a state school voucher program did not...questions about vouchers that linger in...nonpublic Kansas school of choice." (22) Opposition to vouchers is driven not...provisions from voucher proposals, but...that private schools would be constitutionally...coalitions in the voucher movement, see...Political Economy of School Choice, 111...TERRY M. MOE, SCHOOLS, VOUCHERS, AND THE AMERICAN...
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School Choice as a Latent Variable: Estimating the "Complier Average Causal Effect" of Vouchers in Charlotte

Journal article by Joshua M. Cowen; Policy Studies Journal, Vol. 36, 2008

Subjects:

Academic achievement--Analysis, Charlotte, North Carolina--Education policy, Educational vouchers--Influence, School choice--Analysis, School, Choice of--Analysis

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...the mean effect of private school attendance on those who use the voucher--is likely biased due...decision to accept the random voucher treatment. From a policy...predict the decline of a voucher offer. Regardless of the net benefit vouchers may hold for those who use...students attending failing schools must be at least partially...
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Lost Opportunity: Bush V. Holmes and the Application of State Constitutional Uniformity Clauses to School Voucher Schemes

Journal article by Jamie Dycus; Journal of Law and Education, Vol. 35, 2006

Subjects:

Educational vouchers, Religion, Religious schools, School choice, State court decisions

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Entire Library

...educational options, voucher programs sacrifice...Program (OSP), a school voucher program permitting the use of vouchers in religious schools.4 The plaintiffs...including Milwaukees school voucher program...regular public schools boosted their productivity...of long-running voucher programs in New Zealand...risk in relying on vouchers to improve low-performing...

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Magazine Articles on: school and vouchers

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Do School Vouchers Improve Student Performance?

Magazine article by Martin Carnoy; The American Prospect, Vol. 12, January 1, 2001

Subjects:

Bush, George W.--Social policy, Education--Education, Educational vouchers--Political aspects, Private schools--Finance, United States--Social policy

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...the problem, voucher advocates have...prove that private schools supported by public...most at risk of school failure--whether because vouchers are a route to...legislature expanded the voucher program to 15...included religious schools. The Wisconsin...legislation. By the school year 2001-02...children will use vouchers at more than 100...religious private schools. No one knows whether voucher students are performing...
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Voucher Vexation: From Florida to Indiana and beyond, Battles over Tax Aid to Religious Schools Are Erupting in Many State Legislatures

Magazine article by Rob Boston; Church & State, Vol. 64, February 2011

Subjects:

Church and state--Laws, regulations and rules, Church schools--Laws, regulations and rules, Educational vouchers--Laws, regulations and rules, Parochial schools--Laws, regulations and rules, Public schools--Laws, regulations and rules

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Entire Library

...one existing private school subsidy has been found...revenue into private schools since 2002, yet only...groups that distribute vouchers to pay for private school tuition. Critics say...essentially a backdoor voucher plan. Public school students in Florida...achievement, but the private schools taking part in the...
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School Vouchers Cross Church-State Divide, AU Tells Fla. Lawmakers

Magazine article; Church & State, Vol. 52, April 1999

Subjects:

Church and state--Political aspects, Educational vouchers--Political aspects, State aid to private schools--Laws, regulations, etc.

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Entire Library

...that a full-blown voucher program could be harmful...York: New York City Schools Chancellor Rudy Crew...Giuliani pushes a voucher plan through the Board...could never support vouchers in the New York City public school system," an anonymous...education." The city school board is divided 3...to experiment with vouchers. * Georgia: The...have established a voucher plan for children in "failing" public schools. Voting 31-23 along...
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School Vouchers: a Wedge Issue for African Americans?

Magazine article by Julianne Malveaux; Black Issues in Higher Education, Vol. 20, December 18, 2003

Subjects:

African Americans, Education, Educational vouchers, Initiatives, Minority & ethnic groups, Public schools, Vouchers, Washington DC

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...with low-quality public schools greet voucher programs with the same enthusiasm...battles to improve public schools, frustrated by school bureaucracies that seem...embraced alternatives - charter schools, vouchers and privatization - as a...
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School Voucher Referendum Defeated in Utah

Magazine article by Jada Bradley; The Crisis, Vol. 115, Winter 2008

Subjects:

Educational vouchers, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Public schools, School choice, School systems, Utah

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...called for the vouchers to be universal...concern that the voucher program would do...afford private school while giving affluent...to flee public schools. Salt Lake branch...Williams described the school voucher program as a...Utahns for Public Schools - a coalition of...groups - opposed the vouchers because they felt...

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Newspaper Articles on: school and vouchers

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Fenty Backs School Vouchers

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, March 17, 2009

Subjects:

Educational vouchers--Laws, regulations and rules, Pelosi, Nancy, Scholarships (Financial aid)--Laws, regulations and rules, Scholarships--Laws, regulations and rules

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Fenty Backs School Vouchers. Byline: THE WASHINGTON...Scholarship Program, the voucher program for 1,700...to attend private schools Fenty pushes for school vouchers, Page 1, Friday...Districts public schools is false. Funds...
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School Vouchers at Risk; Low-Income D.C. Students May Lose Out

Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), November 30, 2009

Subjects:

Barry, Marion S.--Political activity, Educational vouchers--Political aspects, Elementary school students--Political aspects, Political parties

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...that face our public school system, where the...March. D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Michelle...once saying that vouchers wont solve all the...children in the bleakest schools should have options...Democrats fissure begins. Voucher supporters speak often...acknowledging troubled school systems. Mr. Chavous...Barry in a rally for vouchers outside the U.S...
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School Hopes for Eco Lab with Voucher Cash

Newspaper article; South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales), November 13, 2010

Subjects:

Elementary schools--United Kingdom

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...School Hopes for Eco Lab with Voucher Cash. Byline: Jessica Flynn...Major Church in Wales Primary School. Collecting vouchers for our Kit4Kids campaign...weve got to give away to 100 schools in our catchment area to...equipment. Children at the school in St Andrews Road, Dinas...community. "Within the schools grounds we have a science...
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Pupils Could Switch from 'Failing' to the Best Schools; Voucher Plan for More Parent Choice

Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), July 22, 2009

Subjects:

Schools--United Kingdom

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...annual pounds 7,000 voucher to "spend" on switching...pupil -giving thriving schools an incentive to accept...would make struggling schools even worse. And the...threatened to shut down any school falling short i n 2011...years. Calling for vouchers, Mr Milburn insisted...for-all" where schools would compete for pupils...allowed to profit from a voucher system. Mr Milburn...
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School Vouchers: Sweden's Free-Market Success Story

Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), September 10, 2009

Subjects:

Elementary school students

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...newly eligible for a voucher, were told that they...up their private-school acceptances and go...their failing public schools. No, I dont make...Sweden get education vouchers. It seems that the...Sweden introduced school vouchers throughout the country...face in our public schools. Under the program...children can use a voucher to go to either public...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: school and vouchers

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School Vouchers

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...schools. The idea behind school vouchers is to give parents a wider...competition from private schools will pressure public schools into providing a better...their students. The first school-voucher program instituted in the...
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School

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...community control in large urban areas, privatization of public school administration, school vouchers , and charter schools . Parochial Schools and the English System The free public school system is paralleled in many areas by private and parochial...
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Church and State

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...education in tax-supported schools and public aid to parochial schools. By the end of 1999 federal...the politically fashionable school vouchers , and one had held that when a voucher system resulted in almost...recipients attending religious schools instead of public schools...

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