The National Center on School Choice
Recently, at the Florida Public School Choice Consortium’s Annual Conference, Dr. Mark Berends, Director of the USDOE/Institute for Education Sciences-funded National Center on School Choice, participated in a national webcast entitled Public School Choice: From Research to Practice.
The National Center on School Choice provides extensive information about different forms of choice, such as magnet schools, charter schools, voucher programs, and choice under NCLB. Various articles and research are provided with the click of your mouse. Such as,
- Effects of School Choice on Student Achievement (Chicago, Florida, and New York)
PI: Caroline Hoxby, Stanford University - Public School Choice: Magnet Schools, Peer Effects, and Student Achievement
PI: Dale Ballou, Vanderbilt University - Competitive Effects of Vouchers
PIs: Paul Peterson, Harvard University; William Howell, University of Chicago - Community and Neighborhood Effects of School Choice
PIs: Michael Flicek, Ron Houser, Northwest Evaluation Association
Also, The National Center on School Choice announces its second national conference, which will examine choice as it occurs in specific contexts and locales. In keeping with the center's mission, the purpose of the conference is neither to advocate nor oppose school choice. Rather, the conference will bring together exemplary research on education choice options. In particular, the conference will examine how communities, districts and states implement choice as a strategy for improving schools and student outcomes.
