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The Economist on Education Vouchers

By Dweep Chanana ⋅ May 6, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

The Economist is carrying a piece on the success of education vouchers. Sweeping aside criticism from the “education establishment”, The Economist states simply that “they work”.
But these arguments are now succumbing to sheer weight of evidence. Voucher schemes are running in several different countries without ill-effects for social cohesion; those that use a lottery to [...]

Private Education for the Poor Part 2: Evaluating Vouchers

By Dweep Chanana ⋅ February 21, 2007 ⋅ 4 comments

In response to my last post, Private Education for the Poor, Alex pointed me to an article in The Hindu (The Farce of School Choice) specific to the Indian case that is worth discussing. The author Jayati Ghosh shows candidly the limitations of vouchers.

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