Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Intergovernmental RelationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education, Elementary
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
State and Local Innovations in Educations Choice
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Intergovernmental RelationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education, Elementary
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
The Economics of School Choice
Author: Caroline M. HoxbyPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226355349
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
Now 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.
School Choice and the Betrayal of Democracy
Author: Robert AsenPublisher: Penn State University Press
ISBN: 9780271091396
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Evidence shows that the increasing privatization of K-12 education siphons resources away from public schools, resulting in poorer learning conditions, underpaid teachers, and greater inequality. But, as Robert Asen reveals here, the damage that market-based education reform inflicts on society runs much deeper. At their core, these efforts are antidemocratic. Arguing that democratic communities and public education need one another, Asen examines the theory driving privatization, the neoliberalism of Milton and Rose Friedman, as well as the case for school choice promoted by former secretary of education Betsy DeVos and the controversial voucher program of former Wisconsin governor Scott Walker. What Asen finds is that a market-based approach holds not just a different view of distributing education but a different vision of society. When the values of the market--choice, competition, and self-interest--shape national education, that policy produces individuals, Asen contends, with no connections to community and no obligations to one another. The result is a society at odds with democracy. Probing and thought-provoking, School Choice and the Betrayal of Democracy features interviews with local, on-the-ground advocates for public education and offers a countering vision of democratic education--one oriented toward civic relationships, community, and equality. This book is essential reading for policymakers, advocates of public education, citizens, and researchers.
Views and Estimates of Committees of the House (together with Supplemental and Minority Views) on the Congressional Budget for Fiscal Year ...
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the BudgetPublisher:
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Category : Budget
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Views and Estimates of Committees of the House (with Additional, Supplemental, and Minority Views) on the Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for Fiscal Year 2008
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the BudgetPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Budget
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Exploring the School Choice Universe
Author: Kevin G. WelnerPublisher: IAP
ISBN: 1623960452
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
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 choice in its various forms: charter schools, home schooling, online schooling, voucher plans that allow students to use taxpayer funds to attend private schools, tuition tax credit plans that provide a public subsidy for private school tuition, and magnet schools and other forms of public school intra- and interdistrict choice. It brings together some of the top researchers in the field, presenting a comprehensive overview of the best current knowledge of these important policies. The questions addressed in Exploring the School Choice Universe are of most importance to researchers and policy makers. What do choice programs actually do? What forms do they take? Who participates, and why? What are the funding implications? What are the results of different forms of school choice on outcomes that matter, like student performance, segregation, and competition effects? Do they affect teachers’ working conditions? Do they drive innovation? The contents of this book offer reason to believe that choice policies can further some educational goals. But they also suggest many reasons for caution. If choice policies are to be evidence-based, a re-examination is in order. The information, insights and recommendations facilitate a more nuanced understanding of school choice and provide the basis for designing sensible school choice reforms that can pursue a range of desirable outcomes.
Black Educational Choice
Author: Diana T. Slaughter-KotzinPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
This important book provides African American parents with the knowledge to diversify K–12 school choices beyond traditional neighborhood public schools in order to optimize the educational chances of their own children, and it will help educators and policymakers to close the black-white academic achievement gap throughout America. Closing the K–12 achievement gap is critical to the future welfare of African American individuals, families, and communities—and to the future of our nation as a whole. The black-white academic achievement gap—the significant statistical difference in academic performance between African American students and their white peers—is the single greatest impediment to achieving racial equality and social justice in America. Black Educational Choice provides parents, citizens, educators, and policymakers the critical knowledge they need to leverage the national trend toward increasing and diversifying K–12 school choice beyond traditional neighborhood public schools. Parents can use this information to optimize the success of their own African American children, while policymakers and educators can apply these insights to help close the black-white academic achievement gap throughout America. The book collects the interdisciplinary, multi-racial, and multi-ethnic perspectives of education experts to address the questions of millions of anxious African American families: "Would sending our children to a private school or a charter school significantly better their chances of closing the achievement gap and becoming successful individuals? And if so, what kinds of challenges would they likely experience in these alternative educational settings?"
The President's National Urban Policy Report
Author: United States. Department of Housing and Urban DevelopmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
The President's National Urban Policy Report.
Author: Stephen CurriePublisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 9780788101311
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Objectives: expand homeownership and affordable housing opportunities; create jobs and economic development through enterprise zones; empower the poor through resident management and homesteading; enforce fair housing for all; help make public housing drug free; and help end the tragedy of homelessness. Graphs.
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