The Market Approach to Education: An Analysis of America's First Voucher Program.

Autor/in	Witte, John F.
Titel	The Market Approach to Education: An Analysis of America's First Voucher Program.
Quelle	(2000), (221 Seiten)Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
ISBN	0-691-00944-9
Schlagwörter	Educational Vouchers; Elementary Secondary Education; Free Enterprise System; Inner City; Private Schools; Program Effectiveness; Public Schools; School Choice + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Educational voucher; Bildungsgutschein; Freie Wirtschaft; Private school; Privatschule; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Choice of school; Schulwahl
Abstract	In 1990, Milwaukee, Wisconsin implemented a school choice program aimed at improving the education of inner-city children by enabling them to attend a selection of private schools. This book provides a broad, yet detailed, framework for examining the Milwaukee approach and its implications for the market approach to U.S. education. It explains why the Milwaukee program seems to be working, but discusses why such programs do not necessarily promote equal education and how they might harm the disadvantaged if applied across the socioeconomic spectrum. The chapters are: (1) "Introduction"; (2) "The Enduring Controversy over Educational Choice"; (3) "Educational Choice and the Milwaukee Voucher Program"; (4) "Who Participates in Choice Programs?"; (5) "The Milwaukee Choice Schools"; (6) "Outcomes of the Milwaukee Voucher Program"; (7) "The Politics of Vouchers"; and (8) "Implications and Conclusions." (Contains 5 figures, 34 tables, and 140 references.) (SLD)
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC