Charters Vouchers and Public Education

This volume brings together the most current empirical research on two important innovations reshaping American education today-voucher programs and charter schools.

Info autore

Paul E. Peterson is the Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government at Harvard, the director of PEPG, and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is author or editor of numerous books, including The Education Gap: Vouchers and Urban Schools, with William G. Howell (Brookings, 2004 and 2006). He is coeditor (with Martin West) of No Child Left Behind? The Practice and Politics of School Accountability (Brookings, 2003). David E. Campbell is the John Cardinal O'Hara, C.S.C. Associate Professor of Political Science and a research fellow with the Institute for Educational Initiatives at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of Why We Vote: How Schools and Communities Shape Our Civic Life (Princeton University Press, 2006) and a coauthor or coeditor of The Education Gap: Vouchers and Urban Schools (Brookings, revised 2006), Democracy at Risk (Brookings, 2005), and Charters, Vouchers, and Public Education (Brookings, 2001).

Riassunto

This volume brings together the most current empirical research on two important innovations reshaping American education today-voucher programs and charter schools.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Paul E. (EDT)/ Campbell Peterson
• Con la collaborazione di: David E. Campbell (Editore), Paul E. Peterson (Editore)
• Editore: Brookings Institution Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 01.11.2001
• EAN: 9780815770268
• ISBN: 978-0-8157-7026-8
• Pagine: 322
• Dimensioni: 159 mm x 235 mm x 32 mm
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Pedagogia > Istruzione