School choice or best systems
Subtitle: what improves education?
By: edited by Margaret C. Wang, Herbert J. Walberg.
Contributors: Wang, Margaret C.; Walberg, Herbert J., 1937-
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Mahwah, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
Subjects: School choice -- United States; Educational change -- United States; School improvement programs -- United States -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Understanding market-based school reform / Herbert J. Walberg, Joseph L. Bast; title: Chartered governance of urban public schools / Bruno V. Manno; title: Private vouchers : politics and evidence / Terry M. Moe; title: School choice experiments in urban education / Paul E. Peterson; title: Integrated governance in Chicago and Birmingham (UK) / Kenneth K. Wong; title: Turning around low-performing schools : the case of the Washington, DC schools / Margaret C. Wang, JoAnn Manning; title: Redefining success : the San Antonio case / Diana Lam; title: Strategies for reforming Houston schools / Rod Paige, Susan Sclafani; title: Incentive effects New York's minimum competency exams / John H. Bishop, Ferran Mane; title: Contracted solutions to urban education problems / James W. Guthrie; title: Epilogue / Margaret C. Wang, Herbert J. Walberg.