Choice and competition in American education
By: edited by Paul E. Peterson.
Contributors: Peterson, Paul E.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
Subjects: School choice -- United States.; Educational change -- United States.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the use of market incentives in education / Paul E. Peterson; title: The private can be public / John E. Chubb; title: The costs of privatization / Henry M. Levin; title: Regulations do more harm than good / Frederick M. Hess; title: In defense of regulation / Mary E. Diez; title: We need new types of administrators / Frederick M. Hess; title: New leaders : will public schools hire them? / Alexander Russo; title: Fringe benefits : AFT and NEA teacher salary surveys / Michael Podgursky; title: Low pay, low quality / Peter Temin; title: The case for merit pay / Lewis C. Solmon; title: Wage compression and the decline in teacher quality / Caroline Hoxby & Andrew Leigh; title: A union by any other name / Terry M. Moe; title: Reform unionism is here / Charles Taylor Kerchner; title: Charter schools : mom and pops or corporate design / Bryan C. Hassel; title: Charter-school politics / Bruno V. Manno; title: A school built for Horace : tales from a start-up charter school / Nancy Faust Sizer & Theodore R. Sizer; title: The impact of vouchers on student performance / William J. Howell ... [et al.]; title: Do vouchers and charters push public schools to improve? / Caroline Hoxby; title: School choice and social cohesion / David Campbell; title: How vouchers came to D.C. / Spencer S. Hsu; title: Contracting out : the story behind Philadelphia's Edison contract / Jay Mathews; title: Home schooling : the nation's fastest-growing education sector / Christopher W. Hammons; title: School choice in No Child Left Behind / William G. Howell; title: Selling supplemental services / Siobhan Gorman.