Deep Thoughts About School Choice-An International Perspective

Wednesday, October 19, 2005

An Education Next article dispels some school choice myths about private education and finds lessons learned applicable to U.S. education policy by an assessment of schools in poor communities in India,Ghana, China, and Kenya. The study concludes:

Evidence from developing countries might challenge the claim, made by school choice opponenets, that the poor in America cannot make sensible and informed choices if school choice is offered to them. It may also stimulate the debate about whether public intervention crowds out private initiative...

it's worth reading...

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