School choice and school improvement
By: edited by Mark Berends, Marisa Cannata, and Ellen B. Goldring
Publisher: Harvard Education Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9781934742525; 9781934742532
Subjects: School choice; School improvement programs; Research
Description: Brings together a collection of exemplary, policy-relevant papers that examine how communities, districts, and states use choice as a strategy for improving schools and student learning. This book includes sophisticated and insightful research on private schools and vouchers; charter schools and traditional public schools; and intradistrict transfer programs, adding depth and perspective to the ongoing debates about school choice options.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-293) and index.
Table of contents: title: School choice debates, research, and context : toward systematic understanding and better educational policy  -- Mark Berends, Marisa Cannata, and Ellen B. Goldring; title: School vouchers in the nation's capital : summary of experimental impacts  -- Patrick J. Wolf ... [et al.]; title: Charter school effects in Indianapolis : an analysis of student achievement gains  -- Anna Nicotera, Maria Mendiburo, and Mark Berends; title: Eighth graders and compliance : social capital and school sector impacts on the noncognitive skills of early adolescents  -- Paul E. Peterson and Martina G. Viarengo; title: Does intradistrict transfer make the grade? : a case study of the effects of school choice on achievement  -- Kristie J.R. Phillips, Charles S. Hausman, and Elisabeth S. Larsen; title: Do parents do as they say? : choosing Indianapolis charter schools  -- Marc L. Stein, Ellen B. Goldring, and Xiu Cravens; title: Barriers to access : high school choice processes and outcomes in Chicago  -- W. David Stevens, Marisa de la Torre, and David W. Johnson; title: Communication breakdown : informing immigrant families about high school choice in New York City  -- Carolyn Sattin-Bajaj; title: How do principals respond to charter school competition? : understanding the mechanisms of the competitive effects of choice  -- Marisa Cannata; title: Shaking up public schools with competition : are they changing the way they spend money?  -- David Arsen and Yongmei Ni; title: Charter schools : do they cream skim, increasing student segregation?  -- Ron Zimmer ... [et al.]; title: Does parental choice foster segregated schools? : insights from the Netherlands -- Helen F. Ladd, Edward B. Fiske, and Nienke Ruijs.