What America Can Learn from School Choice in Other Countries

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David F. Salisbury, James Tooley
Cato Institute, 2005 - 236 หน้า
This book draws out the critical lessons for U.S. policymakers and shows how freedom to choose schools and healthy competition among schools can create strong academic success.

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PUBLIC FUNDING OF SCHOOL CHOICE IN CANADA A CASE STUDY
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SCHOOL CHOICE IN SWEDEN IS THERE DANGER OF A COUNTERREVOLUTION?
23
THE CHILEAN EDUCATION VOUCHER SYSTEM
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THE SPECIAL EDUCATION SCARE FACT VS FICTION
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WHAT THE UNITED STATES CAN LEARN FROM OTHER COUNTRIES
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PRIVATE EDUCATION FOR THE POOR LESSONS FOR AMERICA?
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SCHOOL CHOICE LESSONS FROM NEW ZEALAND
105
EVIDENCE ON THE EFFECTS OF CHOICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY FROM INTERNATIONAL STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT TESTS
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MARKET EDUCATION AND ITS CRITICS TESTING SCHOOL CHOICE CRITICISMS AGAINST THE INTERNATIONAL EVIDENCE
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CHOICE AS AN EDUCATION REFORM CATALYST LESSONS FROM CHILE MILWAUKEE FLORIDA CLEVELAND EDGEWOOD NEW ZEA...
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หน้า 81 - It is essential to respect the liberty of parents and, where applicable, of legal guardians, firstly to choose for their children institutions other than those maintained by the public authorities but conforming to such minimum educational standards as may be laid down or approved by the...
หน้า 81 - ... of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace. 3. Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children.
หน้า 82 - No person shall be denied the right to education. In the exercise of any functions which it assumes in relation to education and to teaching, the State shall respect the right of parents to ensure such education and teaching in conformity with their own religious and philosophical convictions.
หน้า 95 - In a private school, the teachers are accountable to the manager (who can fire them), and, through him or her, to the parents (who can withdraw their children). In a government school, the chain of accountability is much weaker, as teachers have a permanent job with salaries and promotions unrelated to performance.
หน้า 76 - What Are We Spending on Special Education Services in the United States, 1999-2000, estimated the excess cost of educating a student with a disability at $5.918 for the 1999-2000 school year.
หน้า 60 - Jay P. Greene. Paul E. Peterson, and Jiangtao Du, Effectiveness of School Choice: The Milwaukee Experiment (Cambridge, Mass.: Program in Education Policy and Governance, Harvard University, 1997).
หน้า 169 - Barriers, Benefits and Costs of Using Private Schools to Alleviate Overcrowding in Public Schools," US Department of Education, Office of the Undersecretary, November 1998, p.
หน้า 169 - R. Dianda and Ronald G. Corwin, "What a Voucher Could Buy: A Survey of California's Private Schools," Southwest Regional Laboratory, February 1993, p.
หน้า 84 - voluntary aided" schools had a definite advantage in producing good educational outcomes. There was "a consistent pattern of associations between voluntary status and schools' effects upon a number of the cognitive and non-cognitive outcomes. ... It is likely that schools which were chosen for very specific reasons may have had the advantages of greater parental support for their educational aims and, because of such support, were helped to be more effective.

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