Choice and Competition in American Education

Herausgeber: Peterson, Paul E.

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the likely promise and pitfalls of many of the most controversial forms of school choice as well as the introduction of greater competition into the recruitment and compensation of teachers and principals. In a group of essays originally published in Education Next: A Journal of Opinion and Research, these essays paint the picture of an education landscape that will be greatly shaped by choice and competition in the 21st century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 615g
• ISBN-13: 9780742545809
• ISBN-10: 0742545806
• Artikelnr.: 22089565

Autorenporträt

Paul E. Peterson is Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government and director of the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard University, and Editor-In-Chief of Education Next: A Journal of Opinion and Research. Peterson is the author or editor over one hundred articles and twenty books and is a former director of the Center for American Political Studies at Harvard University and of the Governmental Studies program at the Brookings Institution.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 The Private Can Be Public Chapter 2 The Costs of Privatization
Chapter 3 Regulations Do More Harm than Good Chapter 4 In Defense of
Regulation Chapter 5 We Need New Types of Administrators Chapter 6 New
Leaders: Will Public Schools Hire Them? Chapter 7 Fringe Benefits: AFT and
NEA Teacher Salary Surveys Chapter 8 Low Pay, Low Quality Chapter 9 he Case
for Merit Pay Chapter 10 Wage Compression and the Decline in Teacher
Quality Chapter 11 A Union by Any Other Name Chapter 12 Reform Unionism Is
Here Chapter 13 Charter Schools: Mom and Pops or Corporate Design Chapter
14 Charter-School Politics Chapter 15 A School Built for Horace: Tales from
a Start-up Charter School Chapter 16 The Impact of Vouchers on Student
Performance Chapter 17 Do Vouchers and Charters Push Public Schools to
Improve? Chapter 18 School Choice and Social Cohesion Chapter 19 How
Vouchers Came to D. C. Chapter 20 Contracting Out: The Story behind
Philadelphia's Edison Contract Chapter 21 Home Schooling: The Nation's
Fastest-growing Education Sector Chapter 22 School Choice in No Child Left
Behind Chapter 23 Selling Supplemental Services

Rezensionen

In these 21 articles contributors wrestle with such issues as the profit motive and whether it will benefit kids, deregulation of entry into the teaching profession, making teacher pay more competitive, the belief that teacher unions stifle reform, and the ever-increasing pressures to create charter schools, use school voucher program, contract schools out, increase home schooling, and sell supplemental services. They also take a hard look at school choice after No Child Left Behind. Reference and Research Book News This collection of essays explores how market concepts have been applied to education as a means of school reform. The authors question whether teachers and principals would be more effective if their training, recruitment, compensation, and retention were deregulated, and debate the merits and shortcomings of school choice options such as charter schools, vouchers, and home schooling. Education Week