What America can learn from school choice in other countries
Title:
What America can learn from school choice in other countries
Author:
Salisbury, David F., 1951-
ISBN:
9781933995687
9781281905710
Publication Information:
Washington, D.C. : Cato Institute, c2005.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (vii, 236 p.) : ill.
General Note:
"The book is, in part, the product of the May 2004 Cato Institute conference, 'Looking Worldwide: What America Can Learn from School Choice in Other Countries'"--Introd.
Contents:
Public funding of school choice in Canada: a case study / Claudia R. Hepburn -- School choice in Sweden: is there danger of a counterrevolution? / F. Mikael Sandström -- The Chilean education voucher system / Claudio Sapelli -- The special education scare: fact vs. fiction / Lewis M. Andrews -- What the United States can learn from other countries / Charles L. Glenn -- Private education for the poor: lessons for America? / James Tooley -- School choice: lessons from New Zealand / Norman LaRocque -- Evidence on the effects of choice and accountability from international student achievement tests / Ludger Woessmann -- Market education and its critics: testing school choice criticisms against the international evidence / Andrew Coulson -- Choice as an education reform catalyst: lessons from Chile, Milwaukee, Florida, Cleveland, Edgewood, New Zealand, and Sweden / John Merrifield.
Abstract:
"The book is, in part, the product of the May 2004 Cato Institute conference, 'Looking Worldwide : What America Can Learn from School Choice in Other Countries'"--Introd.
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