School Choice and Student Well-Being: Opportunity and Capability in Education

by Anthony Kelly

Book Overview

This review of research in school choice adapts Sen's theory of Capability developing a more complex theoretical framework for understanding education markets. This gives those most affected by the perceived failure of public education a better explication of the tension between the rhetoric of public good and the reality of everyday disadvantage.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230549268
• ISBN13: 9780230549265
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 247 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 8.6"