Listening to some education policy-makers, the average observer might think that the Great Voucher Debate represents a full scale Armageddon, where the righteous are violently battling the wicked over the future of American public schools. What the rhetoric fails to explain, of course, is what exactly vouchers are all about. The following voucher "cliff notes" should properly arm you with the jargon and opinions necessary to fling yourself headlong into the debate.