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Academic achievement
Accuracy and precision
Achievement test
Addition
Alternative school
Attendance
Author_Mark Schneider
Author_Melissa Marschall
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Board of education
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Calculation
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Choice School
Class size
Classroom
Collaborative writing
Coproduction (public services)
Curriculum
Database
Decentralization
Decision-making
Dummy variable (statistics)
Economist
Education
Education reform
Educational stage
Effective schools
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Estimation
Income
Institution
Likelihood function
Linear regression
Low-information rationality
Magnet school
Middle school
Minority group
Multivariate analysis
Of Education
Outreach
Parochial school
Percentage
Percentage point
Politics
Private school
Probability
Probit
Productive efficiency
Project
Public policy
Public school (United Kingdom)
Quality Education
Quasi-market
Racial segregation
Report card
Respondent
School
School choice
School district
Selection bias
Social capital
Social science
Socioeconomic status
Standard deviation
Standard error
State school
Statistical significance
Structural holes
Student
Teacher
Test score
Trade-off
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- ISBN 9780691092836
- Weight: 482g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 07 Apr 2002
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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School choice seeks to create a competitive arena in which public schools will attain academic excellence, encourage individual student performance, and achieve social balance. In debating the feasibility of this market approach to improving school systems, analysts have focused primarily on schools as suppliers of education, but an important question remains: Will parents be able to function as "smart consumers" on behalf of their children? Here a highly respected team of social scientists provides extensive empirical evidence on how parents currently do make these choices. Drawn from four different types of school districts in New York City and suburban New Jersey, their findings not only stress the importance of parental decision-making and involvement to school performance but also clarify the issues of school choice in ways that bring much-needed balance to the ongoing debate.
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.
Mark Schneider is Professor of Political Science at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. His books include The Competitive City and, with Paul Teske, Public Entrepreneurs (Princeton). Paul Teske is Professor of Political Science at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. Melissa Marschall is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
