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Informationen zum Autor Mark Berends is professor of sociology, director of the University of Notre Dame's Center for Research on Educational Opportunity, and director of the National Center on School Choice. Marisa Cannata is a senior research associate in the department of Leadership, Policy, and Organizations and associate director of the National Center on School Choice at Vanderbilt University. Ellen B. Goldring is Patricia and Rodes Hart Professor of Education Policy and Leadership and chair of the Department of Leadership, Policy, and Organizations at Vanderbilt University Klappentext School Choice and School Improvement 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. The book includes sophisticated and insightful research on private schools and vouchers; charter schools and traditional public schools; and intradistrict transfer programmes, adding depth and perspective to the ongoing debates about school choice options. The authors provide rigorous research and empirical data to answer central policy questions. What is the impact of school choice on student outcomes? In systems that provide school choice, do parents choose to move their children from low-achieving schools to higher-achieving schools? Does school choice result in increased competition among schools? What is the relationship between school choice and racial or ethnic segregation in the schools? The chapters in this volume collectively exemplify the directions in which research on school choice is developing and push the field toward a more systematic and nuanced understanding of the impact of school choice. Zusammenfassung In School Choice and School Improvement! editors have consolidated trending research and thought experiments relating to school choice to answer these vital questions: Is school choice healthy? Does it foster competition? Does it encourage segregation? ...
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Mark Berends is professor of sociology, director of the University of Notre Dame's Center for Research on Educational Opportunity, and director of the National Center on School Choice.
Marisa Cannata is a senior research associate in the department of Leadership, Policy, and Organizations and associate director of the National Center on School Choice at Vanderbilt University.
Ellen B. Goldring is Patricia and Rodes Hart Professor of Education Policy and Leadership and chair of the Department of Leadership, Policy, and Organizations at Vanderbilt University
