New and Better Schools: The Supply Side of School Choice

by Michael Q. McShane (Editor)

Overview

In the past decade, the number of students enrolled in private school choice programs has grown ten-fold. But granting students access to public financing for their private education has not led to the vibrant marketplace of school options many of its supporters envisioned. If school choice policy is to improve the American education landscape, careful thought must be put in to understand how it can expand existing high quality schools and create new high quality schools to serve more children. New and Better Schools attacks this problem from the perspective of both researchers and practitioners, documenting the hurdles entrepreneurial school leaders face and offering a way forward.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781475814385
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	12/05/2014
Series:	New Frontiers in Education
Pages:	262
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Michael Q. McShane is a research fellow in education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute. A prolific writer and commentator he co-edited Common Core Meets Education Reform and Teacher Quality 2.0. He began his career as an inner city Catholic school teacher in Montgomery, Alabama.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Chapter 1
Introduction
Michael Q. McShane
Part One- Framing the Debate: Lessons from Market Creation
Chapter 2
Lessons of Market Creation from Around the World
Michael Q. McShane
Chapter 3
What Private School Choice Can Learn From Chartering: Networks,
Incubation, and Authorization
Andy Smarick
Chapter 4
Lessons from the Private Sector: Making Private Schooling Less Expensive
Michael Q. McShane and Max Eden
Part Two- Teachers, Leaders, and Schools
Chapter 5
The Private School Teacher Pipeline: A Review of Catholic Educator Preparation
Programs
Karen Huchting and Matthew Cunningham
Chapter 6
Catalysts Needed to Create a Rapidly Expanding School Choice Sector
Andrew Neumann
Chapter 7
Operator Incentives: Lessons from the Notre Dame ACE Academies
Christian Dallavis
Part Three- Program Design, Capacity, and Research in an Educational Marketplace
Chapter 8
Liberty, Efficiency, and Equity: Reformatting Parental Choice
for the Challenges of the 21st Century
Matthew Ladner
Chapter 9
Choice Program Design and School Supply
Anna Egalite
Chapter 10
The Religious and Secular Supply of Schools in Choice Programs
David J. Fleming
Chapter 11
The School Choice Research-Program Nexus: Why We Know So Little
about School Choice Best Practices
Patrick J. Wolf
Chapter 12
Conclusion
Michael Q. McShane

Editorial Reviews

In New and Better Schools: The Supply Side of School Choice, Michael McShane and his team of policy experts thoroughly dissect the challenges and opportunities associated with growing the number of quality private schools in America. The road map they provide would, without question, improve the educational outcomes for countless numbers of kids. Our charge is to rally around this approach and get it done!

Kevin P. Chavous

Twenty-five years on from the first modern voucher program in Milwaukee, the private school choice movement is facing a daunting task once only dreamt of: how to build and sustain new private schools. With the release of The Supply Side of School Choice, edited by Michael McShane, we now have a primer that both highlights the serious supply side challenges facing private schools and points to the way forward for the school choice movement as a whole.

Robert Enlow

While the growth in support for school choice nationwide is evidenced by the considerable activity in state legislatures over the past few years — creating nearly three million voucher or tax-credit scholarships — we are a far cry from meeting the demand with only 11% of those opportunities being put to use by students. Clearly there’s a need to address the educational marketplace and McShane et al offer outstanding evidence and practical solutions for scaling up in New and Better Schools: The Supply Side of School Choice. Questions about demography, scale, capital (both human and financial), and the ever-present regulatory creep are taken to task by this esteemed cast of researchers and practitioners.

Kara Kerwin