The "Developing" Achievement Gap: Colombian Voucher Reform

Autor/in	Stern, Jonathan M. B.
Titel	The "Developing" Achievement Gap: Colombian Voucher Reform
Quelle	In: Peabody Journal of Education, 89 (2014) 1, S.43-57 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0161-956X
DOI	10.1080/0161956X.2014.862471
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Achievement Gap; Educational Vouchers; Educational Change; School Choice; Educational Finance; Secondary Education; Cost Effectiveness; Enrollment Influences; Educational Legislation; Ancillary School Services; Access to Education; Equal Education; Efficiency; Academic Achievement; Change Strategies; Educational Assessment; Colombia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Educational voucher; Bildungsgutschein; Bildungsreform; Choice of school; Schulwahl; Bildungsfonds; Sekundarbereich; Kosten-Nutzen-Analyse; Kosten-Nutzen-Denken; Bildungsrecht; Schulgesetz; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Effectiveness; Effektivität; Wirkungsgrad; Schulleistung; Lösungsstrategie; assessment; Bewertungssystem; Kolumbien
Abstract	The achievement gap in many developing countries is defined in terms of rich/poor and public/private. The prevailing explanation for the "developing" achievement gap is an underfunded, inefficient, and/or inadequately supplied public school sector. Via an analysis of a Colombian voucher experiment, this article examines the extent to which income-contingent vouchers can narrow the achievement gap and provide a cost-effective method for increasing secondary school enrollments. Despite structural and implementation flaws, which diminish the program's impact on achievement and enrollments, its successes strengthen the argument that implementing an income-contingent voucher program can help narrow the achievement gap in developing countries. To cost-effectively increase enrollments, however, significant modifications and expansions to the program would be necessary--as explained in the conclusion of this article. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10