Spin Cycle: How Research Is Used in Policy Debates: The Case of Charter Schools

摘要

Research on school choice has been contentious. As evidence, consider the vigorous and even nasty exchanges between John Witte and Paul E. Peterson, Caroline M. Hoxby and Jesse Rothstein, and Paul E. Peterson and Alan B. Kreuger that have played out on the pages of preeminent journals (Bob Davis 1996; Hoxby 2007; Krueger and Pei Zhu 2004a, 2004b; Peterson and William G. Howell 2004; Rothstein 2007). Consider also the episode that serves as the launching point for Jeff Henig's recent volume, Spin Cycle.