After 60 Years, Do the Arguments for K-12 Vouchers Still Hold?

Autor/in	Laitsch, Dan
Titel	After 60 Years, Do the Arguments for K-12 Vouchers Still Hold?
Quelle	In: Global Education Review, 3 (2016) 2, S.23-32 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2325-663X
Schlagwörter	Elementary Secondary Education; Educational Vouchers; Neoliberalism; Free Enterprise System; Government Role; Private Sector; Privatization; Public Policy; School Choice; Charter Schools; Educational Change; School Districts; Neighborhood Schools; Neighborhoods; Tuition + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Educational voucher; Bildungsgutschein; Neo-liberalism; Neoliberalismus; Freie Wirtschaft; Privater Sektor; Privatisation; Privatisierung; Öffentliche Ordnung; Choice of school; Schulwahl; Charter school; Charter-Schule; Bildungsreform; School district; Schulbezirk; Neighbourhoods; Nachbarschaft; Unterweisung; Unterricht
Abstract	In 1955, Milton Friedman authored a foundational paper proposing a shift in funding and governance mechanisms for public K-12 schools, suggesting that parents be awarded tuition vouchers that they could use to pay for private sector education services for their children, rather than relying on government provided neighborhood schools. Friedman theorized three cases in which such a system might fail, requiring greater involvement of the government in the education system: the presence of a natural monopoly; substantial neighborhood effects; and a breakdown in free exchange. This article examines these concerns by applying more than 25 years of school choice research in an attempt to answer the question, "After 60 years, do the arguments for K-12 vouchers still hold?" Findings cited in this article suggest that Friedman was correct to be concerned about possible deleterious effects that may arise from a privatized system. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01