New and Better Schools: The Supply Side of School Choice(New Frontiers in Education)

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.

Table of Contents:
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 21st 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

About the Author :
Michael Q. McShane is a research fellow in education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute. A prolific writer and commentator he co-edited Common Core Meets Education Reform and Teacher Quality 2.0. He began his career as an inner city Catholic school teacher in Montgomery, Alabama.

Review :
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! While the growth in support for school choice nationwide is evidenced by the considerable activity in state legislatures over the past few years -- creating nearly three million voucher or tax-credit scholarships -- we are a far cry from meeting the demand with only 11% of those opportunities being put to use by students. Clearly there’s a need to address the educational marketplace and McShane et al offer outstanding evidence and practical solutions for scaling up in New and Better Schools: The Supply Side of School Choice. Questions about demography, scale, capital (both human and financial), and the ever-present regulatory creep are taken to task by this esteemed cast of researchers and practitioners. Twenty-five years on from the first modern voucher program in Milwaukee, the private school choice movement is facing a daunting task once only dreamt of: how to build and sustain new private schools. With the release of The Supply Side of School Choice, edited by Michael McShane, we now have a primer that both highlights the serious supply side challenges facing private schools and points to the way forward for the school choice movement as a whole.