Choosing Schools: Consumer Choice and the Quality of American Schools - Couverture rigide

Schneider, Mark; Teske, Paul; Marschall, Melissa

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0691050570 ISBN 13 : 9780691050577

Editeur : Princeton University Press, 2000

Synopsis

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 Jersey, their findings not only stress the importance of parental decision making and involvement to school performance but also clarify the issues of school choice in ways that bring much-needed balance to the ongoing debate.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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 Illinois at Chicago.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Princeton University Press
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0691050570
• ISBN 13: 9780691050577
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 336
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Princeton University Press; https://press.princeton.edu/books; ; 7th Floor, New South Building; PRINCETON; NJ; 8544; Etats-Unis
• Personne responsable: non disponible