School Choice and Competition: Markets in the Public Interest?

by Philip A. Woods, Ron Glatter, Carl Bagley

This book offers a unique record of the realities of parental choice and competitive pressures on schools. On the basis of research involving thousands of parents and eleven secondary schools monitored over several years, it sets out: * empirical findings on parents' preferences and experience of choice, how schools respond to competitive pressures, and local dynamics of quasi-markets * theoretical implications for understanding quasi-markets in education...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415139775
• ISBN13: 9780415139779
• Release Date: April 1998
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.2"