Exploring the school choice universe : evidence and recommendations

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 choi...

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Other Authors Miron, Gary (Editor), Welner, Kevin G. (Editor), Hinchey, Patricia H. (Editor), Mathis, William J. (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, 2012.
SeriesNEPC series.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806614776
DOI10.1108/978-1-62396-045-2
Physical Description1 online resource (vii, 356 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Gary Miron and Kevin G. Welner
  • Chapter 1. Negotiating public and private: Philosophical frameworks for school choice / Terri S. Wilson
  • Chapter 2. How legislation and litigation shape school choice / Julie F. Mead
  • Chapter 3. Who chooses schools, and why? The characteristics and motivations of families who actively choose schools / Natalie Lacireno-Paquet and Charleen Brantley
  • Chapter 4. School choice and accountability / Gregg Garn and Casey Cobb
  • Chapter 5. Funding formulas, school choice, and inherent incentives / Clive R. Belfield
  • Chapter 6. Teacher qualifications and work environments across school choice types / Marisa Cannata
  • Chapter 7. Educational innovation and diversification in school choice plans / Christopher Lubienksi
  • Chapter 8. School choice and segregation by race, ethnicity, class, and achievement / Roslyn Arlin Mickelson, Martha Cecilia Bottia, and Stephanie Southworth
  • Chapter 9. The competitive effect of school choice policies on public school performance / David Arsen and Yongmei Ni
  • Chapter 10. The impact of school choice reforms on student achievement / Gary Miron and Jessica L. Urschel
  • Conclusions and recommendations / William J. Mathis and Patricia H. Hinchey.