What America Can Learn from School Choice in Other Countries
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ISBN: 1930865759 / Publisher: Cato Institute, April 2005
"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.
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Advocating for the establishment of an American education system "based on consumer choice and free markets," Salisbury (director, Cato Institute's Center for Educational Freedom, US) and Tooley (director, E. G. West Centre for Market Solutions in Education, U. of Newcastle, UK) present 10 papers that collect international evidence for the success of such systems. Contributors positively describe school choice programs in several Canadian provinces and Sweden, Chile's voucher program, the effect of school choice on hard-to-educate students in number of foreign countries, and the recent New Zealand experience with market competition in education. Authors frequently offer advice on how the United States could best follow these examples. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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