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Title

Holding schools accountable : performance-based reform in education / Helen F. Ladd, editor.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution, ©1996.

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Additional Authors

Ladd, Helen F.

Description

xii, 382 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

Comprises ten papers. Analyses the effectiveness of various performance-based systems aiming to improve schools' academic achievement. Discusses, for example, a rewards and penalties system, as well as an administrative mechanism (voucher system) to give parents some freedom of choice in selecting schools for their children. Considers other factors leading to better educational results, particularly among disadvantaged pupils.

Subject

• Competency-based education > United States
• School management and organization > United States
• Educational change > United States
• Competency-based education
• Educational change
• School management and organization
• Qualitätssteigerung
• Schulreform
• Bildungsökonomie
• Kongress
• Schule
• Onderwijsmanagement
• Schoolorganisatie
• Financiering
• Studieresultaten
• educational policy
• educational reform
• competency based training
• educational system
• primary school
• secondary school
• public education
• social responsibility
• educational level
• educational wastage
• educational expenditure
• educational facilities
• educational research
• low income
• pupil
• case study
• statistical table
• politique éducative
• réforme de l'enseignement
• formation fondée sur la compétence
• système éducatif
• école primaire
• école secondaire
• enseignement public
• responsabilité sociale
• niveau d'enseignement
• gaspillage d'enseignement
• dépenses d'éducation
• équipements éducatifs
• recherche en éducation
• faible revenu
• élève
• étude de cas
• tableau statistique
• política educativa
• reforma educativa
• formación por suficiencia
• sistema educativo
• escuela primaria
• escuela secundaria
• enseñanza pública
• responsabilidad social
• nivel educativo
• deserción escolar
• presupuesto de la educación
• instalaciones educativas
• investigación pedagógica
• bajos ingresos
• alumno
• estudio de casos
• cuadros estadísticos
• United States
• USA
• USA
• Etats-Unis
• Estados Unidos

Genre/Form

• proceedings.
• bibliography.
• list of participants.
• rapport de réunion.
• bibliographie.
• liste de participants.
• informe de reunión.
• bibliografía.
• lista de participantes.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Recognizing and rewarding success in public schools / Charles T. Clotfelter and Helen F. Ladd -- The new accountability in state education reform : from process to performance / Richard F. Elmore, Charles H. Abelmann, and Susan H. Fuhrman -- Standards-based school reform : policy, practice, and performance / David K. Cohen -- Comments on chapters two, three, and four / Eric A. Hanushek and Robert H. Meyer -- School choice and student performance / John F. Witte -- The effects of private school vouchers on schools and students / Caroline Minter Hoxby -- Comments on chapters five and six / Thomas J. Kane -- The allocation of resources to special education and regular instruction / Hamilton Linkford and James Wyckoff -- Comments on chapter seven / Jane Hannaway -- How and why money matters : an analysis of Alabama schools / Ronald F. Ferguson and Helen F. Ladd -- Economics of school reform : three promising models / W. Steven Barnett -- Alternative approaches to measuring the cost of education / William Duncombe, John Ruggiero, and John Yinger -- Comments on chapters eight, nine, and ten / William H. Clune and Richard J. Murnane.

ISBN

• 0815751044
• 9780815751045
• 0815751036
• 9780815751038

LCCN

95046845

OCLC

• ocm33439148
• 33439148
• SCSB-8918132

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library