Improving school accountability: check-ups or choice
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam Elsevier JAI ©2006
Ausgabe:1st ed
Schriftenreihe:Advances in applied microeconomics v. 14
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Cover; Copyright page; Contents; List of Contributors; Editors' Introduction; Tinkering Toward Accolades: School Gaming under a Performance Accountability System; Accountability, Ability and Disability: Gaming the System?; Do Good High Schools Produce Good College Students? Early Evidence from New York City; Efficiency and Performance in Texas Public Schools; An Examination of Student Achievement in Michigan Charter Schools; Does School Choice Increase School Quality? Evidence from North Carolina Charter Schools
This volume brings together ten papers by outstanding researchers who tackle important economic issues surrounding school accountability reforms. The existing state of K-12 public education in the United States is perceived as unacceptable by a large number and wide variety of critics. How to improve upon this state is the subject of much disagreement. The public discussion is heated, and even the academic debate is often sharp. One common thread of argument stresses the need to increase accountability as a strategy for improving public school quality. There are two broad mechanisms for i
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 279 pages)
ISBN:0080475736
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