School Choice International: Exploring Public-Private Partnerships

✍ Scribed by Rajashri Chakrabarti, Paul E. Peterson

• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 281
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Analyses and studies of public-private partnerships in education and the varied forms they take in different parts of the world.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
I School Choice: Worldwide Perspectives......Page 10
1 Perspectives in Public-Private
Partnerships in Education......Page 12
2 Public-Private Partnerships and Student Achievement: A Cross-Country Analysis......Page 22
3 Mobilizing the Private Sector in the United States: A Theoretical
Overview......Page 56
4 The Practice of Public-Private Partnerships......Page 80
II Traditional Forms of School Choice......Page 98
5 Public-Private Schools in Rural
India......Page 100
6 School-Sector Effects on Student Achievement in
India......Page 120
III Public Funding of Privately Managed Schools......Page 150
7 School Vouchers in
Colombia......Page 152
8 The Public-Private School Controversy in
Chile......Page 174
9 The Concession Schools of Bogota,
Colombia......Page 202
10 Public and Private Schooling Initiatives in
England......Page 228
IV Conclusions......Page 252
11 Education Contracting: Scope of Future
Research......Page 254
Contributors......Page 268
Index......Page 270