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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455857203321

Autore

Hess Frederick M

Titolo

Revolution at the margins [[electronic resource] ] : the impact of competition on urban school systems / / Frederick M. Hess

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : Brookings Institution Press, c2002

ISBN

0-8157-9857-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (284 p.)

Disciplina

379.1/11/0973

Soggetti

School choice - United States

Educational change - United States

Urban schools - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-260) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The market and the urban school system -- Urban systems as competitors -- Milwaukee, 1989-95 : prologue -- Milwaukee, 1995-99 : hints of the pickax -- Cleveland, 1995-99 : muffled by the din -- Edgewood, 1998-2000 : an outside invasion -- A political market -- You say you want a revolution?