School choice international : exploring public-private partnerships /

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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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Chakrabarti, Rajashri, Peterson, Paul E.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2009.
Subjects:
School choice > Cross-cultural studies.
Public schools > Cross-cultural studies.
Charter schools > Cross-cultural studies.
Education and state > Cross-cultural studies.
Écoles > Choix > Études transculturelles.
Écoles publiques > Études transculturelles.
Écoles à charte > Études transculturelles.
Éducation > Politique gouvernementale > Études transculturelles.
EDUCATION > Finance.
Charter schools
Education and state
Public schools
School choice
ECONOMICS/General
EDUCATION/General
Cross-cultural studies
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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

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