Educational vouchers: Effectiveness, choice, and costs

• 成果类型: Article; Proceedings Paper
• 署名作者: Levin, HM
• 署名单位: Stanford University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF POLICY ANALYSIS AND MANAGEMENT
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1520-6924
• DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6688(199822)17:3<373::AID-PAM1>3.0.CO;2-D
• 发表日期: 1998
• 页码: 373-392
• 关键词: high-schools; academic-achievement; catholic-schools; segregation; difference

摘要

Most of the policy discussion on the effects of educational vouchers has been premised on theoretical or ideological positions rather than evidence. This is article analyzes a substantial body of recent empirical evidence on achievement differences between public and private schools; on who chooses and ifs probable impact on educational equity; and on the comparative costs of public and private schools and an overall voucher system. The findings indicate that: (1) results among numerous studies suggest no difference or only a slight advantage for private schools over public schools in student achievement for a given student, but evidence of substantially higher rates of graduation, college attendance, and college graduation for Catholic high school students; (2) evidence is consistent that educational choice leads to greater socioeconomic (SES) and racial segregation of students; and (3) evidence does Mot support the contention that costs of private schools ave considerably lower than those of public schools, but the costs of an overall voucher infrastructure appear to exceed those of the present system.