Comments on: Systemic Effects of Vouchers

By: Ed is Watching » Exciting News: Georgia to Debate Universal School Vouchers Next Year

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 16:28:44 +0000

[...] is misleading. The best research studies show that vouchers help the students who use them and help the public education system to improve through competition. If the improvements shown have all been limited and modest improvements, [...]

By: Malcolm Kirkpatrick

Malcolm Kirkpatrick — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:50:15 +0000

Gerard Lassibile and Lucia Navarro Gomez
“Organization and Efficiency of Educational Systems: some empirical findings”, pg. 16,
Comparative Education , Vol. 36 #1, 2000, Feb.
“Furthermore, the regression results indicate that countries where private education is more widespread perform significantly better than countries where it is more limited. The result showing the private sector to be more efficient is similar to those found in other contexts with individual data (see, for example, Psucharopoulos, 1987; Jiminez, et. al, 1991).
This finding should convince countries to reconsider policies that reduce the role of the private sector in the field of education”.

By: Stuart Buck

Stuart Buck — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:37:39 +0000

Is it worthwhile discussing evidence from other countries? Or are the differences between countries too great for the evidence to be meaningful? In any event: Francisco A. Gallego, "Voucher-School Competition, Incentives, and Outcomes: Evidence from Chile." F. Mikael Sandström and Fredrik Bergströ,"School Vouchers in Practice: Competition Won't Hurt You!" Sebastian Auguste and Juan Pablo Valenzuela, "Is It Just Cream Skimming? School Vouchers in Chile."

By: Greg Forster

Greg Forster — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:26:56 +0000

It's fascinating to watch how Carnoy et al scramble to explain away their own study's positive finding on the impact of vouchers in Milwaukee. Almost as if they were more interested in finding the right result than in following the evidence where it leads.