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Educating citizens : international perspectives on civic values and school choice / Patrick J. Wolf, Stephen Macedo, editors, with David J. Ferrero and Charles Venegoni.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- School choice--Case studies.
- School choice.
- Civics--Study and teaching--Case studies.
- Civics.
- Private schools--Finance--Case studies.
- Private schools.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (412 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The United States is in the midst of historic experiments with publicly funded choice in K-12 education, experiments that recently received a 'green light' from the Supreme Court. Other countries have long experience with the funding and regulation of nonpublic schools. What is the US hoping to learn from these experiences?
- Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Contents; Preface; 1. Introduction: School Choice, Civic Values, and Problems of Policy Comparison; 2. Regulating School Choice to Promote Civic Values: Constitutional and Political Issues in the Netherlands; 3. Private Schools as Public Provision for Education: School Choice and Market Forces in the Netherlands; 4. Regulation, Choice, and Basic Values in Education in England and Walkes: A Legal Perspective; 5. School Choice Policies and Social Integration: The Experience of England and Wales; 6. Regulating School Choice in Belgium's Flemish Community
- 7. The Civic Implications of Canada's Education System8. School Choice and Civic Values in Germany; 9. School Choice and Its Regluation in France; 10. Italy: The Impossible Choice; 11. Do Public and Religious Schools Really Differ? Assessing the European Evidence; 12. Civic Republicanism, Political Pluralism, and the Regulation of Private Schools; 13. Regulatory Strings and Religious Freedom: Requiring Private Schools to Promote Public Values; 14. School Choice as a Question of Design; 15. Regulation in Public and Private Schools in the United States
- 16. A Regulated Market Model: Considering School Choice in the Netherlands as a Model for the United StatesContributors; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786610813070
- 9781280813078
- 1280813075
- 9780815796688
- 0815796684
- OCLC:
- 476016573
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