School Choice at the Crossroads (eBook, ePUB)

Research Perspectives
Redaktion: Berends, Mark; Schoenig, John; Waddington, R. Joseph

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

School Choice at the Crossroads compiles exemplary, policy-relevant research on school choice options-voucher, private, charter, and traditional public schools-as they have been implemented across the nation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351213295
• Artikelnr.: 54361889

Autorenporträt

Mark Berends is a Professor of Sociology and the Director of the Center for Research on Educational Opportunity at the University of Notre Dame, USA. R. Joseph Waddington is Assistant Professor of Educational Policy Studies and Evaluation at the University of Kentucky, USA. John Schoenig is the Senior Director of Teacher Formation and Educational Policy for the Alliance for Catholic Education (ACE) at the University of Notre Dame, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Preface
Section I: Introduction and Overview
1. Introduction: School Choice at the Crossroads
Mark Berends, R. Joseph Waddington, and John Schoenig
Section II: Where We Are
2. Educational Vouchers and Tax Credit Scholarship Programs in the
United States: 1990-2017
John F. Witte
3. Organizational and Social Costs of Schools' Participation in a
Voucher Program
Megan Austin
4. Does Private School Choice Improve Student Achievement? A Review of
the Evidence
Patrick J. Wolf, and Anna J. Egalite,
Charter Schools
5. The Effects of Charter Schools on Student Achievement
Julian R. Betts, and Y. Emily Tang
6. Innovation in Charter Schools: An Exploratory Analysis
Mark Berends, Roberto V. Peñaloza, Marisa Cannata, amd Ellen B.
Goldring
7. Redefining What It Means to be a Teacher: An Examination of Teacher
Autonomy and Innovation in Indianapolis Charter Schools
Madeline Mavrogordato
8. Taking Charge of Choice: The Case and Implications of Mayoral Charter
Control
Claire Smrekar, and Madeline Mavrogordato
9. Scaling up and Sustaining Charter School Effects
Mark Berends and R. Joseph Waddington
Section III: Understanding the Context of School Choice
10. Achievement versus Attainment: Are School Choice Evaluators Looking
for Impacts in the Wrong Places?
Collin Hitt, Patrick J. Wolf, and Michael Q. McShane
11. Searching for Policies and Practices that Make Charter Schools
Successful: What Can Research Tell Us?
Philip M. Gleason
12. The Politics of Charter School Evidence in Local Context: The Case of
Los Angeles
Janelle Scott, Elizabeth DeBray, Christopher Lubienski, Johanna
Hanley, Elise Castillo, and Samantha L. Hedges
13. Self-Governing Schools, Parental Choice and the Public Interest
Helen F. Ladd
Contributor Bios