| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 315 pages : illustrations) |
| Contents |
Introduction: School Choice, Parent Incentives, and the Use of Information -- Ch. 1. Reinventing the Governance Structure of Education: School Choice as Educational Reform -- Ch. 2. Parent Behavior and the Demand Side of School Choice -- Ch. 3. Studying Choice: The Research Design -- Ch. 4. The Distribution of Preferences: What Do Parents Want from Schools? -- Ch. 5. How Do Parents Search for Information? -- Ch. 6. Building Social Networks to Search for Information about Schools -- Ch. 7. The Distribution of Knowledge: How Much Do Parents Know about the Schools? -- Ch. 8. Allocational Efficiency: You Can't Always Get What You Want -- But Some Do -- Ch. 9. Productive Efficiency: Does School Choice Affect Academic Performance? |
| Summary |
"The authors analyze what parents value in education, how much they know about schools, how well they can match what they say they want in schools with what their children get, how satisfied they are with their children's schools, and how their involvement in the schools is affected by the opportunity to choose. They discover, most notably, that low-income parents value education as much as, if not more than, high-income parents, but do not have access to the same quality of school information. This problem comes under sensitive, thorough scrutiny as do a host of other important topics, from school performance to segregation to children at risk of being left behind."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-305) and index |
| Subject |
School choice -- United States
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EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General
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School choice.
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Schulwahl
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Schoolkeuze.
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Ouders.
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United States.
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USA.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Teske, Paul (Paul Eric)
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Marschall, Melissa, 1968-
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| LC no. |
00027872 |
| ISBN |
9780691225685 |
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0691225680 |
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