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What America can learn from school choice in other countries / edited by David Salisbury and James Tooley.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- School choice--Cross-cultural studies--Congresses.
- School choice.
- School choice--United States--Congresses.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (249 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Cato Institute, c2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "The book is, in part, the product of the May 2004 Cato Institute conference, 'Looking Worldwide : What America Can Learn from School Choice in Other Countries'"--Introd.
- Contents:
- Public funding of school choice in Canada: a case study / Claudia R. Hepburn
- School choice in Sweden: is there danger of a counterrevolution? / F. Mikael Sandstrom
- The Chilean education voucher system / Claudio Sapelli
- The special education scare: fact vs. fiction / Lewis M. Andrews
- What the United States can learn from other countries / Charles L. Glenn
- Private education for the poor: lessons for America? / James Tooley
- School choice: lessons from New Zealand / Norman LaRocque
- Evidence on the effects of choice and accountability from international student achievement tests / Ludger Woessmann
- Market education and its critics: testing school choice criticisms against the international evidence / Andrew Coulson
- Choice as an education reform catalyst: lessons from Chile, Milwaukee, Florida, Cleveland, Edgewood, New Zealand, and Sweden / John Merrifield.
- Notes:
- "The book is, in part, the product of the May 2004 Cato Institute conference, 'Looking Worldwide: What America Can Learn from School Choice in Other Countries'"--Introd.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9786611905712
- 9781281905710
- 1281905712
- 9781933995687
- 1933995688
- 9781598755961
- 159875596X
- OCLC:
- 644702492
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