________________________________________  LINKS TO RECENT RESEARCH PAPERS AND SCHOLARLY ARTICLES ON SCHOOL CHOICE AND VOUCHERS ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯  An overview of the five random-assignment studies described to the House Education Committee by VBE Executive Director Libby Sternberg, investigating whether vouchers provide academic benefits to students who use them: "The Surprising Consensus on School Choice" The Public Interest, number  144, Summer 2001: http://www.thepublicinterest.com/archives/2001summer/article2.html The Actual Research:  The Charlotte study: "Vouchers in Charlotte" Education Matters, volume 1, number 2, Summer 2001: Article: http://www.educationnext.org/20012/46greene.html Full Report: http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/cr_12a.htm "Test-Score Effects of School Vouchers in Dayton, Ohio, New York City, and Washington, D. C.: Evidence from Randomized Field Trials" Article: http://www.educationnext.org/20012/46howell.html Full Report: http://www.educationnext.org/unabridged/20012/howell.html "Effectiveness of School Choice: The Milwaukee Experiment" Full Report: http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/pepg/other/mil.htm ________________________________________ More high-quality research on school choice and vouchers: (Note: Most of these Research Papers are in PDF format and require the Adobe Acrobat Reader.  Please click here to download this software for free.) The following research papers by Professor Caroline Hoxby can be downloaded or viewed on the web at: http://post.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/hoxby/papers.html How School Choice Affects the Achievement of Public School Students  Introduction to The Economic Analysis of School Choice  Ideal Vouchers  NAEP Results for States With and Without Standardized Testing  School Choice and School Productivity (or, Could School Choice be a Tide that Lifts All Boats?)  All School Finance Equalizations Are Not Created Equal  Does Competition Among Public Schools Benefit Students and Taxpayers?  The Effects of Class Size on Student Achievement: New Evidence from Population Variation  The Productivity of Schools and Other Local Public Goods Producers  The Effects of School Choice on Curriculum and Atmosphere  How Much Does School Spending Depend on Family Income? The Historical Origins of the Current School Finance Dilemma  Tax Incentives for Higher Education  How Teachers' Unions Affect Education Production  Are Efficiency and Equity in School Finance Substitutes or Complements?  Would School Choice Change the Teaching Profession?  Markets and Schooling: The Effects of Competition from Private Schools, Competition among Public Schools, and Teachers' Unions on Elementary and Secondary Schooling  The following research papers can be downloaded or viewed on the web at the Harvard University Program on Education Policy and Governance web site: http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/pepg/papers.htm School Choice in New York City After Three Years:  An Evaluation of the School Choice Scholarships Program  Results of a School Voucher Experiment: The Case of Washington, D.C. After Two Years School Choice in Dayton, Ohio After Two Years: An Evaluation of the Parents Advancing Choice in Education Scholarship Program The CEO Horizon Scholarship Program: A Case Study of School Vouchers in the Edgewood Independent School District, San Antonio, Texas An Evaluation of the Children's Scholarship Fund A Reply to “Critique of ‘An Evaluation of the Florida A-Plus Accountability and School Choice Program’”  An Evaluation of the Florida A-Plus Accountability and School Choice Program An Evaluation of the BASIC Fund Scholarship Program in the San Francisco Bay Area, California The Effect of School Vouchers on Student Achievement: A Response to Critics  Letter submitted to the Editor of the New York Times September 17, 2000 School Choice in New York City After Two Years: An Evaluation of the  School Choice Scholarships Program Test-Score Effects of School Vouchers in Dayton, Ohio, New York City, and Washington D.C.: Evidence from Randomized Field Trials School Choice in Washington D.C.: An Evaluation After One Year School Choice in Dayton, Ohio: An Evaluation After One Year The Racial, Economic, and Religious Context of Parental Choice in Cleveland An Evaluation of the Horizon Scholarship Program in the Edgewood Independent School District, San Antonio, Texas: The First Year An Evaluation of the Cleveland Voucher Program After Two Years  Coping with Competition: How School Systems Respond to School Choice An Evaluation of the New York City: School Choice Scholarships Program: The First Year Initial Findings from an Evaluation of School Choice Programs in  Washington, D.C. and Dayton, Ohio  Initial Findings from an Evaluation of School Choice Programs in Washington, D.C.  New Findings from the Cleveland Scholarship Program: A Reanalysis of Data from the Indiana University School of Education Evaluation Report on Edison Project and AFT study Initial Findings from the Evaluation of the New York School Choice Scholarships Foundation Program Lessons from the Cleveland Scholarship Program Effectiveness of School Choice: The Milwaukee Experiment Methodological Issues in Evaluation Research: The Milwaukee School Choice Plan Under Extreme Duress, School Choice Success

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