concepts and terms in curriculum studies
type: Concept
narrower: vouchers

governance issues
type: Concept
narrower: vouchers

precollegiate education
type: Concept
narrower: vouchers

economic concepts
type: Concept
narrower: vouchers

education policy
type: Concept
narrower: vouchers

concepts
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member: vouchers

vouchers
definition: Vouchers (also referred to as educational or school vouchers) are a policy and practice by which financial credits (sometimes called scholarships) are awarded to students so that they can select the school that they wish to attend and use the voucher to pay for tuition and other costs. Vouchers are a direct growth out of a free-market philosophy characterized by the Nobel laureate Milton Freidman in his book Free to Choose and are a political mainstay of several conservative movements during the past 20 years. [Source: Encyclopedia of Educational Psychology; Vouchers]
broader: precollegiate education
broader: governance issues
broader: education policy
broader: economic concepts
broader: concepts and terms in curriculum studies
type: Concept