Game, set and match: new evidence from the Swedish voucher reform

A new paper on the Swedish voucher reform system demonstrates that it takes time before competitive incentives have an impact – which has implications for how we evaluate other school choice programmes. Moreover, it indicates that competition is the key mechanism behind producing better outcomes, not the fact that some schools are better than others. It also shows that for-profit schools are just as good as non-profit schools when it comes to raising the overall attainment levels in a voucher system. 

Read the full blog post here

Source: http://www.iea.org.uk/blog/game-set-and-match-new-evidence-from-the-swedish-voucher-reform

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