Sunday, January 15

What happens when parents choose

...research on the impact of choice in education carried out at the Centre for Market and Public Organisation, a think-tank, offers some cautious support for the policies [of school choice] in the white paper. It concludes that the greatest social sorting occurs when parents are free to choose but supply is rigid; next comes strict neighbourhood schooling; and the least takes place when parents choose and schools respond quickly to market signals—that is, when it is easy to set up new schools and expand popular ones, and unpopular schools quickly close.

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