num_pages: 252
description: Parents in many other countries have more choice among schools than American parents do. In other countries parents can choose private, even religious, schools without financial penalty. This book draws out the critical lessons for U.S. policymakers and shows how freedom to choose schools and healthy competition among schools can create strong academic success and, at the same time, promote social integration and religious tolerance.Public funding of school choice in Canada: a case study / Claudia R. Hepburn --School choice in Sweden: is there danger of a counterrevolution? / F. Mikael Sandström --The Chilean education voucher system / Claudio Sapelli --The special education scare: fact vs. fiction / Lewis M. Andrews --What the United States can learn from other countries / Charles L. Glenn --Private education for the poor: lessons for America? / James Tooley --School choice: lessons from New Zealand / Norman LaRocque --Evidence on the effects of choice and accountability from international student achievement tests / Ludger Woessmann --Market education and its critics: testing school choice criticisms against the international evidence / Andrew Coulson --Choice as an education reform catalyst: lessons from Chile, Milwaukee, Florida, Cleveland, Edgewood, New Zealand, and Sweden / John Merrifield
language: English
title: What America Can Learn from School Choice in Other Countries
titlecomplete: What America Can Learn from School Choice in Other Countries
ratings_count: 6
publisher: Cato Institute