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Any links about Sweden? Most voucher efforts in the US seem to work by taking the best students and/or most engaged parents out of the public schools. And Swe

Any links about Sweden? Most voucher efforts in the US seem to work by taking the best students and/or most engaged parents out of the public schools. And Swedish PISA test scores seem to have floated around 500 for the last 15 years, with a slight downward trend, if any.

njepa 8y ago
As far as I know schooling hasn't improved in Sweden because of the voucher system, instead schools have fallen behind the neighboring countries which have more traditional systems.
gridlockd 8y ago
Sweden adopted the voucher system in 1992, not fifteen years ago. There is evidence that the outcome was an improvement: https://web.archive.org/web/20130512223637/http://www.ifau.se/Upload/pdf/se/2012/wp12-19-Independent-schools-and-long-run-educational-outcomes.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20130512223637/http://www.ifau.s... Of course, there's a political debate attached to it and you will find a lot of people to frame it all differently, but the facts are clear: The private schools are superior. https://tino.us/2011/03/on-the-swedish-voucher-system/ https://tino.us/2011/03/on-the-swedish-voucher-system/ Sinking PISA scores in the last years is probably best explained by a lowering of standards to accommodate, among other things, for a surging population of newly-arrived immigrants.