The Choices We Make [microform] : An Examination of the Impact of a Decade of Parental Choice & School Accountability Experimentation in England
- Bib ID:
- 5676459
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- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Public School Forum of North Carolina, Raleigh
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1999
- 29 p.
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In little over a decade, England has given its 24,000 governing boards of public schools the power to hire their principals and virtually autonomous authority over their school budgets. England established, and then curtailed, a national voucher program. It made all its public schools "schools of choice." It created a new type of public school that received total autonomy from local school authorities and additional funding. However, the nation is now in the process of bringing those schools back into their school systems, while reducing additional funding. Simultaneously, they have initiated a very demanding accountability process that exceeds the typical standardized testing model common in the United States. The Labour party is launching sweeping changes in teacher preparation, proposing to initiate merit-pay incentives, and is creating "education enterprise zones" that will experiment with privatizing schools. A North Carolina delegation of educators, policymakers, and business leaders presents the findings of their look at England's experimentation with an educational choice laboratory and their first-hand observations of what comes from sweeping parental choice programs. (DFR)
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- Availability: Public School Forum, 3739 National Drive, Suite 210, Raleigh, NC 27612 ($10). Tel: 919-781-6833; Fax: 919-781-6527; Web site: http://www.ncforum.org; e-mail: amilliken@ncforum.org.
- ERIC Note: Findings of a North Carolina delegation of educators, policymakers, and business leaders who traveled to England in March 1999. Support received from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, the Kenan Family Trust, and the BlaxoWellcome Corporation.
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- 1999
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