Food for Thought: Building a High-Quality School Choice Market

Autor/in	Dillon, Erin
Institution	Education Sector
Titel	Food for Thought: Building a High-Quality School Choice Market
Quelle	(2009), (20 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Community Leaders; Neighborhoods; Charter Schools; School Choice; Supply and Demand; Educational Quality; Public Education; Food Service; Instructional Leadership; School Community Relationship; Educational Planning; Elementary Secondary Education; Academic Achievement; Banking; California; District of Columbia; Illinois; New Jersey; Pennsylvania + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Community leadership; Gemeindeleitung; Neighbourhoods; Nachbarschaft; Charter school; Charter-Schule; Choice of school; Schulwahl; Bedarfsplanung; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Öffentliche Erziehung; Instruction; Leadership; Bildung; Erziehung; Führung; Bildungsplanung; Schulleistung; Bankgeschäft; Kalifornien
Abstract	Although the for-profit retail and nonprofit education markets are not identical, many of the strategies used by reformers to improve markets for banking and food services could nonetheless benefit public education. As district and community leaders, charter school authorizers, and policymakers expand the marketplace of schools, they would be well-served by learning from these innovations. Nearly 20 years after the first charter schools were founded, it has become increasingly clear that opening up markets to new providers is only the first step in dramatically improving the supply and demand for great public schools. This report looks beyond schools to other markets operating in low-income, urban neighborhoods for strategies to improve the supply of high-quality education options and the informed demand necessary to take advantage of those options. The report notes that as district and community leaders approach the prospect of an expanded marketplace of schools, they would be well-served by examining the experiences of industries already operating in inner-city communities and incorporating the following strategies for proactively developing a functioning market: (1) Map the quality of the education market, including both neighborhood needs and strengths, and update this information annually; (2) Establish a financing initiative to bring new schools and education providers to communities that need them; (3) Initiate a coordinated information campaign to build knowledge of school choice and available options and to help guide parents on the best sources of information about school quality; (4) Think outside of the schoolhouse; (5) Start small; and (6) Make sure the community is involved, at the school, local and/or district level. (Contains 2 figures and 48 endnotes.) (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10