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Category Archives: Brookings Institute
Recent Reports on Vouchers and Educational Choices
January 31, 2004 – 9:13 am
“Evaluation of the Cleveland Scholarship and Tutoring Program: 1998-2002″ by the Indiana Center for Evaluation presents the accumulated findings of a four-year study of Cleveland’s voucher program.
As part of a recently passed spending bill, the U.S. Congress created a publicly funded voucher program for the District of Columbia. The bill provides $13 million to cover [...]
New Study on Choices
November 23, 2003 – 9:48 pm
The National Working Commission on Choice in K-12 Education released its report, School Choice: Doing it the Right Way Makes a Difference after two years of study. The commission, chaired by Paul Hill and made up of both choice proponents and skeptics, found that there is “no free lunch” in education and that school choice [...]