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School choice and the question of accountability : the Milwaukee experience / Emily Van Dunk and Anneliese Dickman.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2003.Description: 1 online resource (223 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780300127973
  • 0300127979
  • 1281729876
  • 9781281729873
  • 9786611729875
  • 6611729879
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: School choice and the question of accountability.DDC classification:
  • 371.1/11/0977595 21
LOC classification:
  • LB1027.9 .V36 2003eb
Other classification:
  • DV 2850
  • 5,3
Online resources:
Contents:
The limitations of parental accountability -- Parental choice, parental power, and accountability -- The response of public schools to competition -- What parents know : an examination of informed consumers -- Shopping for schools -- Do the dollars follow the child? -- Choice school accountability : a consensus of views -- Releasing the power of school choice through accountability.
Summary: This account refocuses the debate about school choice programmes in America, with a non-partisan assessment of the nation's largest and longest-running private school voucher programme - the high-profile Milwaukee experiment - and finds that the system undercuts the promise of school choice.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-215) and index.

The limitations of parental accountability -- Parental choice, parental power, and accountability -- The response of public schools to competition -- What parents know : an examination of informed consumers -- Shopping for schools -- Do the dollars follow the child? -- Choice school accountability : a consensus of views -- Releasing the power of school choice through accountability.

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This account refocuses the debate about school choice programmes in America, with a non-partisan assessment of the nation's largest and longest-running private school voucher programme - the high-profile Milwaukee experiment - and finds that the system undercuts the promise of school choice.

English.

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