Essays on the Publicness of Education and the Effects of School Choice on Student Achievement
Title | Essays on the Publicness of Education and the Effects of School Choice on Student Achievement PDF eBook |
Author | Kerry A. King |
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Pages | |
Release | 2005 |
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The Case Against School Choice
Title | The Case Against School Choice PDF eBook |
Author | Kevin B. Smith |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 172 |
Release | 2016-09-16 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1315286556 |
"Compelling arguments, supported by both anecdotal and empirical evidence to convince readers that school choice does nothing to improve the quality of education. ... Solidly researched and written, Smith's and Meier's effort should sway those still undecided on the issue". -- Publishers Weekly
Exploring the School Choice Universe
Title | Exploring the School Choice Universe PDF eBook |
Author | Kevin G. Welner |
Publisher | IAP |
Pages | 366 |
Release | 2013-02-01 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1623960452 |
Exploring the School Choice Universe: Evidence and Recommendations gives readers a comprehensive, complete picture of choice policies and issues. In doing so, it offers cross-cutting insights that are obscured when one looks only at single issue or a single approach to choice. The book examines choice in its various forms: charter schools, home schooling, online schooling, voucher plans that allow students to use taxpayer funds to attend private schools, tuition tax credit plans that provide a public subsidy for private school tuition, and magnet schools and other forms of public school intra- and interdistrict choice. It brings together some of the top researchers in the field, presenting a comprehensive overview of the best current knowledge of these important policies. The questions addressed in Exploring the School Choice Universe are of most importance to researchers and policy makers. What do choice programs actually do? What forms do they take? Who participates, and why? What are the funding implications? What are the results of different forms of school choice on outcomes that matter, like student performance, segregation, and competition effects? Do they affect teachers’ working conditions? Do they drive innovation? The contents of this book offer reason to believe that choice policies can further some educational goals. But they also suggest many reasons for caution. If choice policies are to be evidence-based, a re-examination is in order. The information, insights and recommendations facilitate a more nuanced understanding of school choice and provide the basis for designing sensible school choice reforms that can pursue a range of desirable outcomes.
School Choice
Title | School Choice PDF eBook |
Author | Peter W. Cookson |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 196 |
Release | 1995-08-01 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9780300064995 |
The school choice reform movement believes parents should have a choice of where they send their children to school. In this book the author, an educational sociologist, discusses the practice and politics of school choice objectively and comprehensively.
School Choice around the World
Title | School Choice around the World PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher J. Counihan |
Publisher | London Publishing Partnership |
Pages | 203 |
Release | 2019-06-06 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 0255367805 |
This volume of essays examines the empirical evidence on school choice in different countries across Europe, North America, sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. It demonstrates the advantages which choice offers in different institutional contexts, whether it be Free Schools in the UK, voucher systems in Sweden or private-proprietor schools for low-income families in Liberia. Everywhere experience suggests that parents are ‘active choosers’: they make rational and considered decisions, drawing on available evidence and responding to incentives which vary from context to context. Government educators frequently downplay the importance of choice and try to constrain the options parents have. But they face increasing resistance: the evidence is that informed parents drive improvements in school quality. Where state education in some developing countries is particularly bad, private bottom-up provision is preferred even though it costs parents money which they can ill-afford. This book is both a collection of inspiring case studies and a call to action.
Essays on the Effects of School Quality in School Choice Behavior and Student Outcomes
Title | Essays on the Effects of School Quality in School Choice Behavior and Student Outcomes PDF eBook |
Author | Tracyann Letitia Henry |
Publisher | |
Pages | 390 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Education |
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Handbook of Research on School Choice
Title | Handbook of Research on School Choice PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Berends |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 1153 |
Release | 2009-05-07 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1135593892 |
Since the early 1990s when the nation’s first charter school was opened in Minneapolis, the scope and availability of school-based options to parents has steadily expanded. No longer can public education be characterized as a monopoly. Sponsored by the National Center on School Choice (NCSC), this handbook makes readily available the most rigorous and policy-relevant research on K-12 school choice. Coverage includes charters, vouchers, home schooling, magnet schools, cyber schools, and other forms of choice, with the ultimate goal of defining the current state of this evolving field of research, policy, and practice. Key Features include: Comprehensive – this is the first book to provide a comprehensive review of what is known about the major forms of school choice from multiple perspectives: historical, political, economic, legal, methodological, and international. It also includes work on the governance, structure, process, effectiveness, and costs of school choice. Readable – the editors and authors have taken care to translate rigorous research findings into comprehensible prose accessible to a broad range of readers. International – in addition to thorough coverage of domestic research, the volume also draws on international and comparative studies of choice in foreign countries. Expertise – the National Center on School Choice (NCSC) is a consortium that is headquartered at Vanderbilt University and includes the following partners: Brookings Institution, Brown University, Harvard University, National Bureau of Economic Research, Northwest Evaluation Association, and Stanford University. This book is suitable for researchers, faculty and graduate students in education policy studies, politics of education, and social foundations of education. It should also be of interest to inservice administrators and policy makers.