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Restructuring Eduation: Innovations and Evaluations of Alternative Systems

Simon Hakim, Daniel J. Ryan, and Judith C. Stull, eds.
Forword by Lamar Alexander.

American education is undergoing rapid change. Concern over poor student performance, the ability and motivation of teachers, and the inefficiency of school bureaucracy have led to numerous recommendations for changing the structure of American education. These vary from small changes in the current structure to wholesale privatization of public schools. The contributions in this book discuss a wide range of proposals, including greater school choice, charter schools, promoting contact with the business community, public-private partnerships, and more. Several chapters assess the current research on choice and restructuring. Overall the consensus is that proposed reforms have a good chance of yielding significant benefits.

2000. 288 pp. $65.00, library binding.
ISBN 0-275-95176-6. C5176.
Praeger Publishers.

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Contents

  • Foreword and Introduction
  • A New Social Contract and the Future of Education
    by Lamar Alexander
  • Recent Trends in Education
    by Judith C. Stull and Daniel J. Ryan
  • The Education Framework
  • School Choice for Strong Schools
    by Peter Cookson
  • Who Should Decide the Why, What, and How of Schooling?
    by Charles L. Glenn
  • Choice in Education
  • Choice, Charters, and Privitazation
    by David W. Kirkpatrick
  • Can School Choice Deliver What It Promises
    by Richard Rothstein
  • Historical Trends and Experiences in School Choice: An International Phenonmenon
    by Patrick Lynch
  • School Choice: The Case of New York's District 4
    by Christine Roch, Mark Schneider, Paul Teske and Melissa Marschall
  • School Choices as a Policy Reform: Issues and Approaches
    by Michael Mintrom, Douglas J. Lamdin
  • Restructuring Education -- Accountability: Renewing Public Schools in Chicago
    by Richard M. Daley
  • Chartered in Uncharted Waters
    by Afiya Graham
  • Market-Driven Education
    by A.J. Clegg
  • Making Greater and Better Use of the Private Sector in Education: Suggestions for School-Business Partnerships
    by Elaine Morley
  • The Contracting Out of Instructional Services
    by Douglas J. Lamdin
  • Restructuring Schools Through School-Based Management: Experiences and Insights from 12 Districts
    by Mary Kopczynski
  • Teaching Know-How: The School-to-Work Movement to Restructure Education
    by Jan Hively

SIMON HAKIM is Professor of Economics and Codirector of the Privatization Research Center of Temple University.

DANIEL J. RYAN is Assistant Professor of Economics at Temple University. He has been with the Economics Department at Temple since 1990, including three years at the Japan campus in Tokyo. He is the editor of Privatization and Competition in Telecommunications: International Developments (Praeger, 1997) and is currently doing research on business cycles and productivity growth.

JUDITH C. STULL is Associate Professor of Sociology at LaSalle University and Senior Research Associate at the Mid-Atlantic Laboratory for Student Success at Temple University Center in Human Development and Education. She has published extensively in sociology, economics, and education journals and is the author of Software and Sociology, a volume using computers to teach sociology.

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