John F Witte
Biographic Data
| ID | 1044668 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John F Witte |
| GIVEN NAMES | John F |
| FAMILY NAME | Witte |
| SIGNATURE | WITTE J F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 78 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Income and Access to Higher Education: Are High Quality Universities Becoming More or Less Elite? A Longitudinal Case Study of Admissions at UW-Madison
Has access to selective postsecondary schools expanded or contracted? Evaluating this question has proven a difficult task because data are limited, particularly with regard to family income. We complement previous work and provide a replicable model of institutional analysis. This paper presents a detailed, quantitative assessment of admissions at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, an elite flagship public university-the type that is supposed …
Similar Students, Different Choices: Who Uses a School Voucher in an Otherwise Similar Population of Students
We examine what factors predict why some parents enroll their children in voucher schools while other parents with similar types of children and from similar neighborhoods do not. Furthermore, we investigate how aware parents are of their educational options, where they get their information, and what school characteristics they deem the most important. To answer these questions, we analyze the school choice patterns in the Milwaukee Parental Cho…
School Vouchers and Student Attainment: Evidence from a State‐Mandated Study of Milwaukee's Parental Choice Program
In this article we examine educational attainment levels for students in Milwaukee's citywide voucher program and a comparable group of public school students. Using unique data collected as part of a state‐mandated evaluation of the program, we consider high school graduation and enrollment in postsecondary institutions for students initially exposed to voucher schools and those in public schools at the same time. We show that exposure to vouche…
Going Public: Who Leaves a Large, Longstanding, and Widely Available Urban Voucher Program
This article contributes to research concerning the determinants of student mobility between public and private schools. The authors analyze a unique set of data collected as part of a new evaluation of Milwaukee’s citywide voucher program. The authors find several important patterns. Students who switch from the private to the public sector were performing lower than their peers on standardized tests in the prior year. African Americans were dis…
Immigration Reform: Strategies for Legislative Action
This paper deals with the current prospects and potential problems with passage of immigration reform. Rather than recommend legislative and programmatic changes that many other commentators have posed, this paper discusses the possible legislative strategies for accomplishing changes in an immigration system that most believe is in dire need of reform. Specifically it asks if the various complex issues involved in immigration should be considere…
A Proposal for State, Income-Targeted, Preschool Vouchers
This article proposes that states create low-income targeted voucher programs for 3- and/or 4-year-olds. The basis for this proposal is considerable research demonstrating long-term effects for a number of random assignment and quasi-experimental preschool programs. Benefit–costs rates of return for these programs are between $2 and $16 for every dollar invested. These results are also consistent with developmental and neuro-biological studies su…
Going Charter? A Study of School District Competition in Wisconsin
The question that drives this article is why some school districts decide to open up charter schools and others do not. Several answers are plausible: (a) entrepreneurial initiative, (b) structural explanations, and (c) spatial competition. We use data for the state of Wisconsin derived from extensive case studies of 19 charter schools and quantitative data on Wisconsin school district from state files and the U.S. Department of Education common …
Flexibility Meets Accountability: State Charter School Laws and Their Influence on the Formation of Charter Schools in the United States
Using an original and unique database of state charter school laws that we have developed, we analyze how state policymakers have incorporated two key values into state charter school laws: flexibility and accountability. We supplement this database with other state‐level measures to answer two specific questions: What factors influence the degree of flexibility and accountability in state charter school laws? How does the content of state charte…
Politics, Persuasion, and Educational Testing
Politics, Persuasion, and Educational Testing. By Lorraine M. McDonnell. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004. 264p. $45.00. People who are experts in policy areas, but attempt to write for a broader audience in their home discipline, often write primarily a policy tract, then add a little something from their home field. Although Lorraine McDonnell is one of the top experts in the country on education policy, especially large-scale educ…
Is it Privatization or Educational Choice that Matters? Comments on “Market‐ Versus Mission‐Oriented Charter Schools”
The Market Approach to Education: An Analysis of America's First Voucher Program.
Who Chooses? Voucher and Interdistrict Choice Programs in Milwaukee
Choice in American education remains one of the more important and certainly more controversial issues in education reform movements. This article analyzes two types of choice programs located in the Milwaukee metropolitan area. Numerous research issues are involved in the debates over educational choice. Two of the most important sets of issues are who chooses and why, and what are the effects on educational outcomes? This article is concerned w…
Budgetary Politics in Brief
United States
Education Choice Reforms: Will They Change American Schools
Over the last decade, public concern about education in the United States increased significantly. In response to this concern, numerous efforts have been initiated to reform primary and secondary education. Among the most visible reforms proposed have been a variety of plans to maximize parental choice and privatize education. This article describes and analyzes a wide range of choice proposals in terms of four variables: the proposed organizati…
Choice and Control in American Education
The Politics and Development of the Federal Income Tax
The Politics and Development of the Federal Income Tax. By John F. Witte. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1985. xxii + 438 pp. $25.00.) and Political Origins of the U.S. Income Tax. By Jerold L. Waltman. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1985. x + 124 pp. $12.50.) H. J. Kiesling H. J. Kiesling Indiana UniversityBloomington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volum…
The Distribution of Federal Income Tax Expenditures
Democracy, Authority, and Alienation in Work: Workers' Participation in an American Corporation
Democracy, Authority, and Alienation in Work: Workers' Participation in an American Corporation
Flexibility Meets Accountability: State Charter School Laws and Their Influence on the Formation of Charter Schools in the United States
Using an original and unique database of state charter school laws that we have developed, we analyze how state policymakers have incorporated two key values into state charter school laws: flexibility and accountability. We supplement this database with other state‐level measures to answer two specific questions: What factors influence the degree of flexibility and accountability in state charter school laws? How does the content of state charte…
Similar Students, Different Choices: Who Uses a School Voucher in an Otherwise Similar Population of Students
We examine what factors predict why some parents enroll their children in voucher schools while other parents with similar types of children and from similar neighborhoods do not. Furthermore, we investigate how aware parents are of their educational options, where they get their information, and what school characteristics they deem the most important. To answer these questions, we analyze the school choice patterns in the Milwaukee Parental Cho…
School Vouchers and Student Attainment: Evidence from a State‐Mandated Study of Milwaukee's Parental Choice Program
In this article we examine educational attainment levels for students in Milwaukee's citywide voucher program and a comparable group of public school students. Using unique data collected as part of a state‐mandated evaluation of the program, we consider high school graduation and enrollment in postsecondary institutions for students initially exposed to voucher schools and those in public schools at the same time. We show that exposure to vouche…
Going Public: Who Leaves a Large, Longstanding, and Widely Available Urban Voucher Program
This article contributes to research concerning the determinants of student mobility between public and private schools. The authors analyze a unique set of data collected as part of a new evaluation of Milwaukee’s citywide voucher program. The authors find several important patterns. Students who switch from the private to the public sector were performing lower than their peers on standardized tests in the prior year. African Americans were dis…
Who Chooses? Voucher and Interdistrict Choice Programs in Milwaukee
Choice in American education remains one of the more important and certainly more controversial issues in education reform movements. This article analyzes two types of choice programs located in the Milwaukee metropolitan area. Numerous research issues are involved in the debates over educational choice. Two of the most important sets of issues are who chooses and why, and what are the effects on educational outcomes? This article is concerned w…
Immigration Reform: Strategies for Legislative Action
This paper deals with the current prospects and potential problems with passage of immigration reform. Rather than recommend legislative and programmatic changes that many other commentators have posed, this paper discusses the possible legislative strategies for accomplishing changes in an immigration system that most believe is in dire need of reform. Specifically it asks if the various complex issues involved in immigration should be considere…
Education Choice Reforms: Will They Change American Schools
Over the last decade, public concern about education in the United States increased significantly. In response to this concern, numerous efforts have been initiated to reform primary and secondary education. Among the most visible reforms proposed have been a variety of plans to maximize parental choice and privatize education. This article describes and analyzes a wide range of choice proposals in terms of four variables: the proposed organizati…
The Distribution of Federal Income Tax Expenditures
Income and Access to Higher Education: Are High Quality Universities Becoming More or Less Elite? A Longitudinal Case Study of Admissions at UW-Madison
Has access to selective postsecondary schools expanded or contracted? Evaluating this question has proven a difficult task because data are limited, particularly with regard to family income. We complement previous work and provide a replicable model of institutional analysis. This paper presents a detailed, quantitative assessment of admissions at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, an elite flagship public university-the type that is supposed …
Going Charter? A Study of School District Competition in Wisconsin
The question that drives this article is why some school districts decide to open up charter schools and others do not. Several answers are plausible: (a) entrepreneurial initiative, (b) structural explanations, and (c) spatial competition. We use data for the state of Wisconsin derived from extensive case studies of 19 charter schools and quantitative data on Wisconsin school district from state files and the U.S. Department of Education common …
Democracy, Authority, and Alienation in Work: Workers' Participation in an American Corporation
Democracy, Authority, and Alienation in Work: Workers' Participation in an American Corporation
The Distribution of Federal Income Tax Expenditures
The Politics and Development of the Federal Income Tax
The Politics and Development of the Federal Income Tax. By John F. Witte. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1985. xxii + 438 pp. $25.00.) and Political Origins of the U.S. Income Tax. By Jerold L. Waltman. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1985. x + 124 pp. $12.50.) H. J. Kiesling H. J. Kiesling Indiana UniversityBloomington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volum…
Choice and Control in American Education
United States
Education Choice Reforms: Will They Change American Schools
Over the last decade, public concern about education in the United States increased significantly. In response to this concern, numerous efforts have been initiated to reform primary and secondary education. Among the most visible reforms proposed have been a variety of plans to maximize parental choice and privatize education. This article describes and analyzes a wide range of choice proposals in terms of four variables: the proposed organizati…
Budgetary Politics in Brief
Who Chooses? Voucher and Interdistrict Choice Programs in Milwaukee
Choice in American education remains one of the more important and certainly more controversial issues in education reform movements. This article analyzes two types of choice programs located in the Milwaukee metropolitan area. Numerous research issues are involved in the debates over educational choice. Two of the most important sets of issues are who chooses and why, and what are the effects on educational outcomes? This article is concerned w…
The Market Approach to Education: An Analysis of America's First Voucher Program.
Is it Privatization or Educational Choice that Matters? Comments on “Market‐ Versus Mission‐Oriented Charter Schools”
Politics, Persuasion, and Educational Testing
Politics, Persuasion, and Educational Testing. By Lorraine M. McDonnell. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004. 264p. $45.00. People who are experts in policy areas, but attempt to write for a broader audience in their home discipline, often write primarily a policy tract, then add a little something from their home field. Although Lorraine McDonnell is one of the top experts in the country on education policy, especially large-scale educ…
Flexibility Meets Accountability: State Charter School Laws and Their Influence on the Formation of Charter Schools in the United States
Using an original and unique database of state charter school laws that we have developed, we analyze how state policymakers have incorporated two key values into state charter school laws: flexibility and accountability. We supplement this database with other state‐level measures to answer two specific questions: What factors influence the degree of flexibility and accountability in state charter school laws? How does the content of state charte…
A Proposal for State, Income-Targeted, Preschool Vouchers
This article proposes that states create low-income targeted voucher programs for 3- and/or 4-year-olds. The basis for this proposal is considerable research demonstrating long-term effects for a number of random assignment and quasi-experimental preschool programs. Benefit–costs rates of return for these programs are between $2 and $16 for every dollar invested. These results are also consistent with developmental and neuro-biological studies su…
Going Charter? A Study of School District Competition in Wisconsin
The question that drives this article is why some school districts decide to open up charter schools and others do not. Several answers are plausible: (a) entrepreneurial initiative, (b) structural explanations, and (c) spatial competition. We use data for the state of Wisconsin derived from extensive case studies of 19 charter schools and quantitative data on Wisconsin school district from state files and the U.S. Department of Education common …
Immigration Reform: Strategies for Legislative Action
This paper deals with the current prospects and potential problems with passage of immigration reform. Rather than recommend legislative and programmatic changes that many other commentators have posed, this paper discusses the possible legislative strategies for accomplishing changes in an immigration system that most believe is in dire need of reform. Specifically it asks if the various complex issues involved in immigration should be considere…
Going Public: Who Leaves a Large, Longstanding, and Widely Available Urban Voucher Program
This article contributes to research concerning the determinants of student mobility between public and private schools. The authors analyze a unique set of data collected as part of a new evaluation of Milwaukee’s citywide voucher program. The authors find several important patterns. Students who switch from the private to the public sector were performing lower than their peers on standardized tests in the prior year. African Americans were dis…
School Vouchers and Student Attainment: Evidence from a State‐Mandated Study of Milwaukee's Parental Choice Program
In this article we examine educational attainment levels for students in Milwaukee's citywide voucher program and a comparable group of public school students. Using unique data collected as part of a state‐mandated evaluation of the program, we consider high school graduation and enrollment in postsecondary institutions for students initially exposed to voucher schools and those in public schools at the same time. We show that exposure to vouche…
Similar Students, Different Choices: Who Uses a School Voucher in an Otherwise Similar Population of Students
We examine what factors predict why some parents enroll their children in voucher schools while other parents with similar types of children and from similar neighborhoods do not. Furthermore, we investigate how aware parents are of their educational options, where they get their information, and what school characteristics they deem the most important. To answer these questions, we analyze the school choice patterns in the Milwaukee Parental Cho…
Income and Access to Higher Education: Are High Quality Universities Becoming More or Less Elite? A Longitudinal Case Study of Admissions at UW-Madison
Has access to selective postsecondary schools expanded or contracted? Evaluating this question has proven a difficult task because data are limited, particularly with regard to family income. We complement previous work and provide a replicable model of institutional analysis. This paper presents a detailed, quantitative assessment of admissions at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, an elite flagship public university-the type that is supposed …
Political science (18 works) · Economics (12 works) · Law (12 works) · Law (10 works) · School Choice and Performance (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Politics (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Public Administration (8 works) · Public Administration (7 works)