Choosing Schools : : Consumer Choice and the Quality of American Schools /

Choosing Schools : : Consumer Choice and the Quality of American Schools / / Mark Schneider, Melissa Marschall, Paul Teske.

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Schneider, Mark,
Marschall, Melissa,
Teske, Paul,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022]
©2000
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (329 p.) :; 53 illus., 64 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction. School Choice, Parent Incentives, and the Use of Information
  • Part One
  • Chapter 1. Reinventing the Governance Structure of Education: School Choice as Educational Reform
  • Chapter 2. Parent Behavior and the Demand Side of School Choice
  • Chapter 3. Studying Choice: The Research Design
  • Part Two
  • Chapter 4. The Distribution of Preferences: What Do Parents Want from Schools?
  • Chapter 5. How Do Parents Search for Information?
  • Chapter 6. Building Social Networks to Search for Information about Schools
  • Part Three. Chapter 6 Building Social Networks to Search for Information about Schools
  • Chapter 7. The Distribution of Knowledge: How Much Do Parents Know about the Schools?
  • Chapter 8. Allocational Efficiency: You Can't Always Get What You Want—But Some Do
  • Chapter 9. Productive Efficiency: Does School Choice Affect Academic Performance?
  • Chapter 10. Does Choice Increase Segregation and Stratification?
  • Chapter 11. Choosing Together Is Better than Bowling Alone: School Choice and the Creation of Social Capital
  • Chapter 12. Opting Out of Public Schools: Can Choice Affect the Relationship between Private and Public Schools?
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 13. Myths and Markets: Choice Is No Panacea, But It Does Work
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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