, implying that school choice plans may have the smallest impact on the choices of the families they are targeting. This paper …-Mecklenburg Public School District (CMS) and a field experiment we designed and implemented as part of the district's 2006 school choice … plan to examine how transparent information on school-level academic performance affects the test scores of the schools …

high performance standards, for example, and well-designed school choice--but also raises considerable doubts about whether … many current school policies are effective in dramatically altering the opportunity structure. The evidence presented also … educational outcomes, human capital policy aimed at disadvantaged students, and private/public school choice. …