SCHOOL CHOICE INTERNATIONAL

... The findings speak quite clearly:

• Competition from private schools improves student achievement, and appears to do so for public school as well as private school students.
• It produces these benefits while decreasing the total resources devoted to education, as measured by cumulative educational spending per pupil.
• Under competitive pressures from private schools, the productivity of the school system measured as the ratio between output and input increases by even more than is suggested by looking at educational outcomes alone.
• Ironically, although Catholics historically placed less emphasis on education than did adherents of many other religions, their resistance to state-run schooling in many countries helped create institutional configurations that continue to outperform government run systems.

[seems like another waisted study as common sense tells us competition improves the product - students included. But the article also sites union critics that label the effects 'unproven' and that student achievement in the public sector could* decline as students become 'segregated' - so hopefully this large study will provide some 'proof' of what all non-union adults already know... Recommended > ]

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