Numéro thématique
Dronkers, J., Felouzis, G., & van Zanten, A. (dir.) (2010). Education markets and school choice. Educational Research and Evaluation, 16(2).
Education markets and school choice.
Jaap Dronkers, Georges Felouzis et Agnès van Zanten
After a introduction on school market theories by Jaap Dronkers, Georges Felouzis and Agnès van Zanten, the first article, by Peter Robert, is a sequel of an earlier one on school effectiveness. Robert improves the older analysis by defining the education markets of 23 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries on the basis of major divisions in the school system like public–private, tracking either by curriculum or by ability, and schools’ practices regarding student admissions.
The second article, by Patrick Wolf, describes a school voucher initiative of the District of Columbia Opportunity Scholarship Program, targeted to disadvantaged students in the US capital.
The third article, by Jaap Dronkers and Silvia Avram, is also a sequel of an earlier one on school effectiveness. The researchers apply propensity score matching to the estimation of differential school effectiveness between the publicly funded private sector and the public one in a sample of 26 countries.
The fourth article, by Catherine Barthon and Brigitte Monfroy, discusses the sociospatial aspects of school choice. The authors highlight the importance of taking into account the spatial dimension in the analysis of parents’ choices of secondary schools.
The last article, by Marc Demeuse, Antoine Derobertmasure, and Nathanael Friant, points to an important possible consequence of education markets and school choice : a high level of socioeconomic segregation between schools.
