School choice and American democracy -- Evaluating voucher programs -- Seeking and using a voucher -- Attending urban schools -- Social consequences -- The urban test score gap -- Satisfaction with urban schools -- Vouchers and urban schools

In the fall of 1997, the Washington Scholarship Fund (WSF) announced the expansion of a privately funded school voucher program in Washington, D.C. originally established in 1993. In the spring of 1998, over six thousand students from public and private schools applied to the new program; of...