New and Better Schools

The Supply Side of School Choice

Edited by Michael Q. McShane

Publication date:

05 December 2014

Length of book:

262 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

ISBN-13: 9781475814378

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.

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 21^st 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

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!