Every School a School of Choice: School Choice in Ireland as Viewed through American Eyes

Autor/inn/en	Buchanan, Nina K.; Fox, Robert A.
Titel	Every School a School of Choice: School Choice in Ireland as Viewed through American Eyes
Quelle	In: Irish Educational Studies, 27 (2008) 3, S.267-279 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0332-3315
Schlagwörter	National Curriculum; School Choice; Parent Role; Foreign Countries; Comparative Education; Educational Assessment; Politics of Education; School Demography; Interviews; Administrator Attitudes; School Restructuring; Teacher Role; Educational Policy; Policy Analysis; Ireland; United States + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Choice of school; Schulwahl; Parental role; Elternrolle; Ausland; Vergleichende Erziehungswissenschaft; Education; assessment; Bewertungssystem; Educational policy; Bildungspolitik; Schulbesuchsrate; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Schulreformplan; Schulumwandlung; Lehrerrolle; Politics of education; Politikfeldanalyse; Irland; USA
Abstract	"Choice" and "freedom" as measured by the ability of parents to select their children's schools are deeply embedded in the national ethos of the United States of America. Wealthy American parents have always exercised school choice but minority and low-income students are often trapped in failing schools. This paper is based on research conducted in a purposive sample of Irish primary schools into the nature of school choice. The authors examine five aspects of the Irish national primary school system that could provide models for American educators, whose vision often stops at the boundaries of the United States: education law, school choice for all, a national curriculum framework, the role of assessment, and the role of parents and educators in the creation of new schools. While arguably the five relate directly to school choice of different degrees, they collectively weave a web whereby school systems in the Republic of Ireland and the USA may productively be compared to the benefit of both. (Contains 1 table and 7 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10