School Choice
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Publications
Nine Lies About School Choice Press Release and School Choice Full Report
School Choice in the District of Columbia
School Choice in the Cleveland, Ohio
School Choice in the Milwaukee, Wisconsin
When Schools Compete: The Effects of Vouchers on Florida Public School Achievement by Jay P. Greene, Ph.D. Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute for Policy Research and Marcus A. Winters Research Associate, Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, August, 2003.
Friend of the Court Brief filed by the Institute for Justice and signed by CER and others requests the U.S. Supreme Court to accept for consideration a Washington State case that challenges the constitutionality of the so-called "Blaine Amendments." 2003
Legal Summary of U.S. Supreme Court decision in Zelman v. Simmons-Harris, 436 U.S. --- (June, 2002) in which Supreme Court ruled that the Cleveland School Choice Program is constitutional. Also link to full text of U.S. Supreme Court Decision (.pdf format).
Milwaukee’s Public Schools: The Untold Story of America’s Newest Democratic Revolution, by John Gardner, Member At Large, Board of School Directors, Milwaukee Public Schools, Published by The American Education Reform Council, January 2002.
Amicus Brief filed by CER and 27 other individuals and organizations, urging the Supreme Court to support parental choices for quality education for children enrolled in Cleveland program. November 9, 2001
Amicus Brief Filed By CER urging the U.S. Supreme Court to accept the Cleveland School Choice case for consideration. June 25, 2001.
An Evaluation of the Florida A-Plus Accountability and School Choice Program, by Jay P. Greene, February 2001
More Than Grades: How Choice Boosts Parental Involvement and Benefits Children, by Philip Vassallo, Cato Policy Analysis, The Cato Institute, October 26, 2000
Test-Score Effects of School Vouchers in Dayton, Ohio, New York City, and Washington D.C.: Evidence from Randomized Field Trials by William G. Howell, Patrick J. Wolf, Paul E. Peterson and David E. Campbell, August 2000
The Effect of School Vouchers on Student Achievement: A Response to Critics, by William G. Howell, Patrick J. Wolf, Paul E. Peterson and David E. Campbell, August 2000
School Choice in New York City After Two Years: An Evaluation of the School Choice Scholarships Program, by David Myers, Paul E. Peterson, David Mayer, Julia Chou and William G. Howell, August 2000
Civic Report 12, The Effect of School Choice: An Evaluation of the Charlotte Children's Scholarship Fund Program, by Jay P. Greene, August 2000
CER Amicus Brief Filed in Support of Appellants and the Florida School Choice Opportunity Scholarship Program, May 27, 2000
THE TRUTH ABOUT VOUCHERS: New
Information on School Choice,
Presented by Howard L. Fuller, Institute for the Transformation of Learning
Education Writers Association National
Convention, April 2000
COMPETING TO
WIN: How Florida's A+ Plan Has Triggered Public School Reform, by Carol
Innerst, April
2000
SCHOOL CHOICE FACTS, April 2000, Compiled by the Institute for Justice.
CER Amicus Brief Filed in the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, In Support of Appellants and the Ohio Pilot Scholarship Program, April 10, 2000
“Exploring Parents’ Educational Choices,” April 2000, Annaliese Dickman, Joshua Beardsley, Emily Van Dunk, Dayna Velasco (Public Policy Forum), Website: http://www.execpc.com/~ppf.
The Continuing Struggle of African Americans for the Power to
Make Real Educational Choices, By Dr. Howard Fuller, Institute for the Transformation of Learning,
March 2000
“A Survey of Results from Voucher Experiments: Where We Are and What
We Know,” March 2000 “An Evaluation: Milwaukee Parental Choice Program, February 2000”,
Wisconsin Legislative Audit Bureau, Website: http://www.legis.state.wi.us/lab.
“School Choice in Dayton, Ohio.: An Evaluation After One Year,” February 2000, Peterson, William Howell (Stanford University), Patrick Wolf (Georgetown University). Website: http://data.fas.harvard.edu/pepg/
“School Choice in Washington, D.C.: An Evaluation After One Year,” February 2000, Peterson, William Howell (Stanford University), Patrick Wolf (Georgetown University). Website: http://data.fas.harvard.edu/pepg/
Rampaging Toward Choice, by Michael Lynch, Reason magazine, January 2000
The Market Approach to Education, Princeton University Press, 2000, John Witte (University of Wisconsin-Madison), http://pup.princeton.edu, Email: witte@lafollette.wisc.edu.
On Thin Ice: How Advocates and Opponents Could Misread the Public's Views on Vouchers and Charter Schools, by Public Agenda, November 1999
The Racial, Economic, and Religious Context of Parental Choice in Cleveland, by Jay P. Greene, October 8, 1999An Evaluation of the Horizon Scholarship Program in the Edgewood Independent School District, San Antonio, Texas: The First Year, by Paul E. Peterson, David Myers and William G. Howell, September 1999
“Evaluation of the Cleveland Scholarship and Tutoring Program, 1996-1999,” September 1999, Kim Metcalf (Indiana Center for Evaluation), Email: kmetcalf@indiana.edu
Private Scholarship Programs: A Matter of Priorities, CER, Includes statistical profile and contact information for each program, updated August 1999
An Evaluation of the Cleveland Voucher Program After Two Years, by Paul E. Peterson, William G. Howell and Jay P. Greene, June 1999“The Milwaukee Voucher Experiment,” Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Winter 1999, John Witte (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Email: witte@lafollette.wisc.edu.
Coping with Competition: How School Systems Respond to School Choice, by Frederick Hess, Robert Maranto and Scott Milliman, 1998
An Evaluation of the New York City: School Choice Scholarships Program: The First Year, by Paul E. Peterson, David Myers and William G. Howell, October 28, 1998Initial Findings from an Evaluation of School Choice Programs in Washington, D.C. and Dayton, Ohio, by Paul E. Peterson, Jay P. Greene, William G. Howell and William McCready, October 24, 1998
Initial Findings from an Evaluation of School Choice Programs in Washington, D.C., by Paul E. Peterson, Jay P. Greene, William G. Howell and William McCready, September 1, 1998
School Choice in Milwaukee: 1990 - 1998, Howard L. Fuller, Ph.D., June 1998
“School Choice in Milwaukee: A Randomized Experiment,” Learning from School Choice, Brookings Institution, 1998, Greene, Paul Peterson (Harvard University), Jiangtao Du (Harvard University), Website: http://www.brookings.edu/press/inprint.htm, Email: ppeterso@latte.harvard.edu.
New Findings from the Cleveland Scholarship Program: A Reanalysis of Data from the Indiana University School of Education Evaluation, by Paul E. Peterson, Jay P. Greene, and William G. Howell, May 6, 1998“Private School Vouchers and Student Achievement: An Evaluation of the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 1998, Cecilia Rouse (Princeton University),
Email: rouse@princeton.edu.CER Amicus Brief Filed in the Supreme Court of Wisconsin In Support of Milwaukee School Choice Program, December 17, 1997, Case No. 97-0270
CER Amicus Brief Filed in the Supreme Court of Ohio In Support of Hope for Cleveland's Children, December 8, 1997, Case No. 97-1117
Initial Findings from the Evaluation of the New York School Choice Scholarships Foundation Program, by Paul Peterson, David Myers, Josh Haimson, and William G. Howell, November 1997
Lessons from the Cleveland Scholarship Program, by Jay P. Greene, William G. Howell, Paul E. Peterson, October 15, 1997CER's National Survey of Americans’ Attitudes Toward Education and School Reform, September, 1997
Effectiveness of School Choice: The Milwaukee Experiment, by Jay P. Greene, Paul E. Peterson, and Jiangtao Du, March 1997
Methodological Issues in Evaluation Research: The Milwaukee School Choice Plan, by Jay P. Greene and Paul E. Peterson, August 29, 1996
Under Extreme Duress, School Choice Success, by Paul E. Peterson and Chad Noyes, February 1996
Where Connoisseurs Send Their Children to School, by Denis Doyle, Published by the Center for Education Reform, 1995
For additional research visit the Program on Education Policy and Governance website, Harvard University.