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Author Van Dunk, Emily, 1966-

Title School choice and the question of accountability : the Milwaukee experience / Emily Van Dunk and Anneliese Dickman
Published New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (223 pages)
Contents The limitations of parental accountability -- Parental choice, parental power, and accountability -- The response of public schools to competition -- What parents know : an examination of informed consumers -- Shopping for schools -- Do the dollars follow the child? -- Choice school accountability : a consensus of views -- Releasing the power of school choice through accountability
Summary This account refocuses the debate about school choice programmes in America, with a non-partisan assessment of the nation's largest and longest-running private school voucher programme - the high-profile Milwaukee experiment - and finds that the system undercuts the promise of school choice
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-215) and index
Notes English
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Subject School choice -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee -- Case studies
Educational accountability -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee -- Case studies
EDUCATION -- Teaching Methods & Materials -- General.
EDUCATION -- Experimental Methods.
Educational accountability.
School choice.
Schulwahl
Wisconsin -- Milwaukee.
Milwaukee, Wis.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Form Electronic book
Author Dickman, Anneliese, 1972-
LC no. 2003010389
ISBN 9780300127973
0300127979
1281729876
9781281729873
9786611729875
6611729879