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Special Edition on Contemporary School Choice Research

AUTHORS:
Mark Berends, Guest Editor
Matthew G. Springer, Guest Editor
Warren E. Langevin, Guest Editor

PUBLISHED BY:
Peabody Journal of Education, Volume 82, Numbers 2-3
(Forthcoming in 2007)


This special edition of the Peabody Journal of Education reports scientific, comprehensive, and timely scholarship on the individual and systemic effects of school choice and competition in public and private education. In coordination with the National Center on School Choice, Guest Editors Mark Berends, Matthew Springer, and Warren Langevin present new empirical and theoretical studies from political scientists, economists, policy analysts, and legal scholars on the policy environment for school choice around the world:

Editor's Introduction
Mark Berends, Warren E. Langevin, and Matthew G. Springer

Politics of Charter Schools: Competing National Advocacy Coalitions Meet Local Politics
Michael W. Kirst

The Institutional Landscape of Interest-Group Politics and School Choice
Elizabeth H. DeBray-Pelot, Christopher A. Lubienski, and Janelle T. Scott

What Have We Learned about Home Schooling?
Eric Isenberg

Parent and Student Voices on the First Year of the DC Opportunity Scholarship Program
Thomas Stewart, Patrick J. Wolf, and Steven Q. Cornman

Should I Stay or Should I Go? Teacher Mobility in Florida's Charter and Traditional Public Schools
Debbie C. Harris

Getting Inside the Black Box: Explaining How the Operation of Charter Schools Affect Performance
Ron Zimmer and Richard Buddin

Going Charter? A Study of School District Competition in Wisconsin
John F. Witte, Paul A. Schlomer, and Arnold F. Shober

Policy Expansion of School Choice in the American States
Kenneth K. Wong and Warren E. Langevin

School Choice in London, England: Characteristics of Students in Different Types of Secondary Schools
Anne West and Audrey Hind

Common Problems, Different Solutions
Charles L. Glenn

International Evidence on School Competition, Autonomy and Accountability: A Review
Ludger Woessmann

The complete edition of the Peabody Journal of Education will be available from Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, but a selection of research articles and the editors' introduction may be downloaded from the National Center on School Choice website at the time of publication.