School Choice and the Question of Accountability: The Milwaukee Experience - Couverture rigide

Van Dunk, Emily; Dickman, Anneliese M.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0300099428 ISBN 13 : 9780300099423

Editeur : Yale University Press, 2003

Synopsis

This timely book refocuses the debate about school choice programs with a nonpartisan assessment of the nation’s largest and longest-running private school voucher program―the high profile Milwaukee experiment―and finds that the system undercuts the promise of school choice.

The authors argue that the Milwaukee experiment has not resulted in the one element necessary for school choice to be effective: an accountability system in which good schools thrive and poor schools close. They show that most ingredients of a robust market are missing. Well-informed consumers (parents) are not the norm. State fiscal incentives are counterproductive, and competition among public and choice schools is difficult to discern. They conclude that school choice could succeed if certain conditions were met, and they offer guidelines to strengthen accountability and repair the voucher system.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Emily Van Dunk is research director and Anneliese M. Dickman is senior researcher at the Public Policy Forum in Milwaukee.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Yale University Press
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0300099428
• ISBN 13: 9780300099423
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 240
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• Personne responsable: non disponible