Choice and Equity in Teacher Supply
Author: Jodie Reed
Publisher: Institute for Public Policy Research
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 94
ISBN-13: 9781860302725
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Author: Jodie Reed
Publisher: Institute for Public Policy Research
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 94
ISBN-13: 9781860302725
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Julian R. Betts
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780815753322
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Analyzes the potential costs and benefits of school choice and discusses policy mechanisms that would maximize its benefits while mitigating its social costs, specifically in terms of racial and religious issues and the promotion of civic values"--Provid
Author: Janelle T. Scott
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Published: 2005-08-20
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780807745991
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of essays will help readers to disentangle the complex relationship between school choice and student diversity in the post-Brown era. Presenting the views of the most prominent researchers of school choice reforms in the U.S., this book argues that the contexts under which school choice plans are adopted are actually responsible for shaping student diversity within schools. Using sociological, economic, and political analysis, the authors present studies of controlled and voluntary choice plans, charter schools, private school selection, and their interaction with race, social class, gender, and student disability.
Author: Paul T. Hill
Publisher: Hoover Institution Press
Published: 2013-11-01
Total Pages: 152
ISBN-13: 0817938966
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis review of the furious national debate over school choice examines the benefits of choice for children, families, and schools—and shows how properly designed choice programs can prevent the harmful outcomes opponents fear.
Author: R. Kenneth Godwin
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2010-01-01
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 0292778945
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEducational policy in a democracy goes beyond teaching literacy and numeracy. It also supports teaching moral reasoning, political tolerance, respect for diversity, and citizenship. Education policy should encourage liberty and equality of opportunity, hold educational institutions accountable, and be efficient. School Choice Tradeoffs examines the tradeoffs among these goals when government affords parents the means to select the schools their children attend. Godwin and Kemerer compare current policy that uses family residence to assign students to schools with alternative policies that range from expanding public choice options to school vouchers. They identify the benefits and costs of each policy approach through a review of past empirical literature, the presentation of new empirical work, and legal and philosophic analysis. The authors offer a balanced perspective that goes beyond rhetoric and ideology to offer policymakers and the public insight into the complex tradeoffs that are inherent in the design and implementation of school choice policies. While all policies create winners and losers, the key questions concern who these individuals are and how much they gain or lose. By placing school choice within a broader context, this book will stimulate reflective thought in all readers.
Author: Geoffrey Walford
Publisher: Burns & Oates
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book studies the history of choice in education, looking in particular at two schemes in the UK - assisted places and city technology colleges - which were promoted to increase parental choice in schools. As a contrast, the author examines the debate in the United States, looking at the magnet schools programme and the experiment in Boston, where all parents are forced to choose.
Author: Stephen Gorard
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 2010-02-24
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on the views of teenagers across Europe and in the Far East, this book argues that we need to reconsider how we judge schools and what they are for. It shows that the treatment of pupils in schools makes more difference to teenagers' views on society, and on what it means to be fair, than it does to differences in attainment.
Author: Robert Pondiscio
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2020-06-02
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 0525533753
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn inside look at America's most controversial charter schools, and the moral and political questions around public education and school choice. The promise of public education is excellence for all. But that promise has seldom been kept for low-income children of color in America. In How the Other Half Learns, teacher and education journalist Robert Pondiscio focuses on Success Academy, the network of controversial charter schools in New York City founded by Eva Moskowitz, who has created something unprecedented in American education: a way for large numbers of engaged and ambitious low-income families of color to get an education for their children that equals and even exceeds what wealthy families take for granted. Her results are astonishing, her methods unorthodox. Decades of well-intended efforts to improve our schools and close the "achievement gap" have set equity and excellence at war with each other: If you are wealthy, with the means to pay private school tuition or move to an affluent community, you can get your child into an excellent school. But if you are poor and black or brown, you have to settle for "equity" and a lecture--about fairness. About the need to be patient. And about how school choice for you only damages public schools for everyone else. Thousands of parents have chosen Success Academy, and thousands more sit on waiting lists to get in. But Moskowitz herself admits Success Academy "is not for everyone," and this raises uncomfortable questions we'd rather not ask, let alone answer: What if the price of giving a first-rate education to children least likely to receive it means acknowledging that you can't do it for everyone? What if some problems are just too hard for schools alone to solve?
Author: Caroline M. Hoxby
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2007-11-01
Total Pages: 367
ISBN-13: 0226355349
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNow that the U.S. Supreme Court has declared school voucher programs constitutional, the many unanswered questions concerning the potential effects of school choice will become especially pressing. Contributors to this volume draw on state-of-the-art economic methods to answer some of these questions, investigating the ways in which school choice affects a wide range of issues. Combining the results of empirical research with analyses of the basic economic forces underlying local education markets, The Economics of School Choice presents evidence concerning the impact of school choice on student achievement, school productivity, teachers, and special education. It also tackles difficult questions such as whether school choice affects where people decide to live and how choice can be integrated into a system of school financing that gives children from different backgrounds equal access to resources. Contributors discuss the latest findings on Florida's school choice program as well as voucher programs and charter schools in several other states. The resulting volume not only reveals the promise of school choice, but examines its pitfalls as well, showing how programs can be designed that exploit the idea's potential but avoid its worst effects. With school choice programs gradually becoming both more possible and more popular, this book stands out as an essential exploration of the effects such programs will have, and a necessary resource for anyone interested in the idea of school choice.