| School Choice and Competition: Markets in the Public Interest? Contributor(s): Woods, Philip (Author), Bagley, Carl (Author), Glatter, Ron (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415139775 ISBN-13: 9780415139779 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $66.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1998 Annotation: This book reports on the findings of a unique investigation into the impact of education reforms aimed at introducing more choice and competition into school systems. The authors consider the action schools are taking, or failing to take, in the new more competitive environment in which they now operate, and offer a more sociologically-informed notion of market competition for the assessment of schools. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | Educational Policy & Reform - Education | Finance |
| Dewey: 379.111 |
| LCCN: 97033309 |
| Series: Educational Management |
| Physical Information: 0.77" H x 6.34" W x 9.2" (1.03 lbs) 270 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book offers a unique record of the realities of parental choice and competitive pressures on schools. On the basis of research involving thousands of parents and eleven secondary schools monitored over several years, it sets out: * empirical findings on parents' preferences and experience of choice, how schools respond to competitive pressures, and local dynamics of quasi-markets * theoretical implications for understanding quasi-markets in education and the public interest * implications for educational policy, if schools are to be more responsive and inequalities lessened The book provides insights into whether pressures for choice and diversity are in the greater public interest, or if they benefit only the few, and suggests a notion of the public-market as a model for analysing public services. |
