{"id":11582,"date":"2011-10-12T08:22:49","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T12:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=11582"},"modified":"2011-10-21T11:10:17","modified_gmt":"2011-10-21T15:10:17","slug":"ontario-education-system-has-set-up-a-remarkably-clean-and-ongoing-experiment-in-the-effects-of-school-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/10\/12\/ontario-education-system-has-set-up-a-remarkably-clean-and-ongoing-experiment-in-the-effects-of-school-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;Ontario education system [is] a remarkably clean and ongoing experiment in the effects of school choice&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/report-on-business\/economy\/economy-lab\/stephen-gordon\/why-separate-schools-are-outperforming-public-boards\/article2198221\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen Gordon<\/a> explains why Ontario&#8217;s two parallel school systems are helping to prove the efficacy of school choice:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Public funding for the Ontario separate school system is sometimes a controversial topic for reasons I won\u2019t get into here. But by offering one set of parents with the choice of which school they can send their children, the Ontario education system has set up a remarkably clean and ongoing experiment in the effects of school choice. Catholics have the choice of sending their elementary-school aged children either to separate or to public schools, and non-Catholics do not have this choice.<\/p>\n<p>Elementary school administrators in the two systems face very different constraints:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Public schools have a monopoly on non-Catholics who can\u2019t afford private school.<\/li>\n<li>Separate schools face a clientele that always has the option of switching to the public school system.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Of the two, separate school administrators have the greater incentive to provide higher-quality education: if the separate system were widely known to be dysfunctional, it would likely disappear.<\/p>\n<p>Basic economics would predict that the competitive pressures on separate school administrators would provide stronger incentives to provide better education outcomes. And that seems to be just what is happening. A recent study (pdf) by McMaster University economists Martin Dooley and Abigail Payne in collaboration with UC-Berkeley\u2019s David Card that examine these effects finds \u201ca statistically significant but modest-sized impact of potential competition on the growth rate of student achievement.\u201d In a related study using similar data, a CD Howe study done by Wilfrid Laurier\u2019s David Johnson finds that of the 13 &#8216;above-average&#8217; school boards, 11 are in the separate school system, while none of the 10 &#8216;below-average&#8217; school boards are. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Gordon explains why Ontario&#8217;s two parallel school systems are helping to prove the efficacy of school choice: Public funding for the Ontario separate school system is sometimes a controversial topic for reasons I won\u2019t get into here. 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