| Description |
xii, 372 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Studying privatization in education / Henry M. Levin -- Educational vouchers and the media / Lee D. Mitgang and Christopher V. Connell -- Legal status of privatization and vouchers in education / Frank R. Kemerer -- Information and choice in educational privatization / Mark Schneider -- Preschools and privatization / Ellen Magenheim -- Privatization in higher education / Arthur Levine -- Privatization through vouchers in developing countries : the cases of Chile and Colombia / Martin Carnoy and Patrick J. McEwan -- Privatization in industrialized countries / Geoffrey Walford -- Assessing the growth and potential of charter schools / Pearl Rock Kane and Christopher J. Lauricella -- Privatization and charter school reform : economic, political and social dimensions / Amy Stuart Wells and Janelle Scott -- Vouchers, privatization, and the poor / Gary Natriello -- Teachers and privatization / Caroline Hodges Persell -- Criteria for evaluating school voucher studies / David E. Myers -- Designing education voucher experiments : recommendations for researchers, funders, and users / Fred Doolittle and Wendy Connors. |
| Subject |
Privatization in education.
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| Added Author |
Levin, Henry M.
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| ISBN |
0813366402 (alk. paper) |
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