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The National Center on School Choice is funded by the United States Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences. The Center exercises national leadership in school choice research, including charter and magnet schools, private school vouchers, teacher recruitment, school management, and state policymaking.

Peabody College at Vanderbilt University
The Center's lead institution is Vanderbilt University, a national private university located in Nashville, Tennessee. The Center is managed by the Learning Sciences Institute on the campus of Peabody College, one of the nation's top graduate schools of education. Learn more |
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The National Center on School Choice seeks to conduct scientific, comprehensive, and timely investigation on the individual and systemic effects of school choice and competition. The Center exercises national leadership in resolving the complex intersection of multiple disciplines, methodologies, and substantive issues associated with school choice in the United States. Our comprehensive research agenda engages nationally known scholars across major social science disciplines in several different projects.
View the Comprehensive Program of Research by Home Institution or Alphabetical Order.
Experimental Design Studies
Quasi-Experimental Design Studies
Longitudinal Data Analysis on the Main Effects of School Choice
Dale Ballou, Vanderbilt University
Mark Berends, Vanderbilt University
Martha McCall, Northwest Evaluation Association |
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Organizational Analysis on What Works Under What Conditions
Mark Berends, Vanderbilt University
Ellen Goldring, Vanderbilt University
Martha McCall, Northwest Evaluation Association
Tom Loveless, Brookings Institution |
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Curriculum Effects of School Choice
Mark Berends and Ellen Goldring, Vanderbilt University
Ruth Green, University of Indianapolis
Tom Loveless, Brookings Institution
Michael Kamil and Herbert Walberg, Stanford University |
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Opening the Black Box of Choice and Regular Public Schools
Mark Berends, Vanderbilt University
Ellen Goldring, Vanderbilt University
Martha McCall, Northwest Evaluation Association |
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Parental Satisfaction and Involvement in Magnet Schools
Ellen Goldring, Vanderbilt University
Claire Smrekar, Vanderbilt University |
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Studying Competitive Effects of Vouchers in a Natural Experiment
Paul Peterson, Harvard University
William Howell, University of Chicago |
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Generalizability of Gains on State Exams
Paul Peterson, Harvard University
William Howell, Harvard University |
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Assessing Impact of Choice and Competition in Milwaukee
Paul Peterson, Harvard University
William Howell, Harvard University |
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Surveying High Achieving Charter Schools: Identifying Best Practices
Tom Loveless, Brookings Institution
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Institutions and Governance
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