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Choosing Schools: Consumer Choice and the Quality of American Schools
Mark Schneider
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Description for Choosing Schools: Consumer Choice and the Quality of American Schools
Paperback. School choice seeks to create a competitive arena in which public schools will attain academic excellence, encourage student performance, and achieve social balance. This book analyses what parents value in education, how much they know about schools, and how well they can match what they say they want in schools with what their children get. Num Pages: 336 pages, 53 illus., 64 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JNL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 485.
School choice seeks to create a competitive arena in which public schools will attain academic excellence, encourage individual student performance, and achieve social balance. In debating the feasibility of this market approach to improving school systems, analysts have focused primarily on schools as suppliers of education, but an important question remains: Will parents be able to function as "smart consumers" on behalf of their children? Here a highly respected team of social scientists provides extensive empirical evidence on how parents currently do make these choices. Drawn from four different types of school districts in New York City and suburban New ... Read more
School choice seeks to create a competitive arena in which public schools will attain academic excellence, encourage individual student performance, and achieve social balance. In debating the feasibility of this market approach to improving school systems, analysts have focused primarily on schools as suppliers of education, but an important question remains: Will parents be able to function as "smart consumers" on behalf of their children? Here a highly respected team of social scientists provides extensive empirical evidence on how parents currently do make these choices. Drawn from four different types of school districts in New York City and suburban New ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
330
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691092836
SKU
V9780691092836
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99-1
About Mark Schneider
Mark Schneider is Professor of Political Science at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. His books include The Competitive City and, with Paul Teske, Public Entrepreneurs (Princeton). Paul Teske is Professor of Political Science at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. Melissa Marschall is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of ... Read more
Reviews for Choosing Schools: Consumer Choice and the Quality of American Schools
Winner of the Aaron Wildavsky Best Book Award "[A] very comprehensive volume... The reader will be stimulated by the depth of analyses and the originality of the interpretations... Clearly, this book will be the standard departure point for further study on informing school choice."
Henry M. Levin, Urban Affairs Review "This timely, thoughtful, and useful guide, which clearly favors educational choice ... Read more
Henry M. Levin, Urban Affairs Review "This timely, thoughtful, and useful guide, which clearly favors educational choice ... Read more