Choosing Schools
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| Rating | : | 4.69 (752 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0691050570 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-01-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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A. Ruhil said A must read for parents, educators, and politicians. In the 1990s school choice has been a highly contentious and passionately debated topic of discussion in schools, government and the popular press. There are, I am sure, more reams devoted to this subject than to violence in schoolyards. Yet, much of what is claimed to be evidence for or against school choice is colored by ideology and/or politics - not careful analysis of the causes and consequences of choice programs. And therein lies the distinction between Choosing Schools: Consumer Choice and the Quality of American Schools and the myriad other texts on the market today.Utilizing information culled f
They discover, most notably, that low-income parents value education as much as, if not more than, high-income parents, but do not have access to the same quality of school information. This problem comes under sensitive, thorough scrutiny as do a host of other important topics, from school performance to segregation to children at risk of being left behind.. In debating the feasibility of this market approach to improving school systems, analysts have focused primarily on schools as suppliers of education, but an important question remains: Will parents be able to function as "smart consumers" on behalf of their children? Here a highly respected team of social scientists provides extensive empirical evidence on how parents currently do make these choices. Drawn from four different types of school districts in New York City and suburban New Jersey, their findings not only stress the importance of parental decision-making and involvement to school performance but also clarify the issues of school choice in ways that bring much-needed balance to the ongoing debate.The authors analyze what parents value in education, how much they know about schools, how well they can match what they say they want in schools with what their children get, how satisfied they are with their children's schools, and how their involvement in the schools is affected by the opportunity to choose. School choice seeks to create a competitive arena in which public schools will
From Library Journal ED Schneider, Paul Teske (both political science, SUNY at Stony Brook), and Melissa Marschall (government and international studies, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. . Examining in minute detail the standards by which parents evaluate their children's education, the authors stress the importance of parental decision-making and involvement and clarify many issues that relate to school choice. They also thoroughly investigate questions about segregation and the possibility of children being left behind. In the first of three parts, the authors develop their perspective on school organization and discuss how choice reforms schools; in the second, they explore factors that