School Choice

Silver Bullet, Social Threat, or Sound Policy

Dados Bibliográficos

ID9735141
AutoresFrances C Fowler (Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056; . Her research interests include the politics of education, education policy, and school choice, autor correspondente)
Ano2003
Volume32
Fascículo2
Páginas33-39
Data de publicação2003-03-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEducational Researcher (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0013-189X • E-ISSN: 1935-102X
EditoraAmerican Educational Research Association (AERA) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3102/0013189x032002033
OpenAlexW1984795314
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas10
Referências citadas6

When I wrote my first article about school choice in the fall of 1984, a sitting president was forcefully advocating tuition tax credits and vouchers, but the U.S. literature about the subject was sparse. The major reason was that little school choice was available in this country. A few New England states had long followed a practice called tuitioning, which offered some choice to high school students; a number of cities had implemented magnet programs as an integration measure; and a limited voucher experiment had been conducted in California in the 1970s. However, most children in the United States attended the public school to which they had been zoned by their school board. As a result, the sparse literature on the subject was h avy on theory and light on empirical evidence, a weakness that can be illustrated

Acoustics · Political science · School choice · Silver bullet · Sociology · Sound (geography · Higher Education Research Studies · Psychology · School Choice and Performance · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies