School choice international : exploring public-private partnerships / / edited by Rajashri Chakrabarti and Paul E. Peterson

• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, MA, : MIT Press, c2009
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (281 p.)
• Disciplina: 379.1/11
• Soggetto topico: School choice; Public schools; Charter schools; Education and state
• Altri autori: ChakrabartiRajashri PetersonPaul E
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents ; Preface; I School Choice: Worldwide Perspectives; 1 Perspectives in Public-Private Partnerships in Education; 2 Public-Private Partnerships and Student Achievement: A Cross-Country Analysis; 3 Mobilizing the Private Sector in the United States: A Theoretical Overview; 4 The Practice of Public-Private Partnerships; II Traditional Forms of School Choice; 5 Public-Private Schools in Rural India; 6 School-Sector Effects on Student Achievement in India; III Public Funding of Privately Managed Schools; 7 School Vouchers in Colombia; 8 The Public-Private School Controversy in Chile ; 9 The Concession Schools of Bogota, Colombia 10 Public and Private Schooling Initiatives in England; IV Conclusions; 11 Education Contracting: Scope of Future Research; Contributors; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume analyses and studies public-private partnerships in education and the varied forms they take in different parts of the world, for example it studies publicly-funded vouchers in Chile and Columbia and private schools in India.
• Titolo autorizzato: School choice international
• ISBN: 0-262-30925-4; 0-262-27011-0; 1-4356-9407-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910807121303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II