{"product_id":"choosing-schools-consumer-choice-and-the-quality-of-american-schools-9780691092836","title":"Choosing Schools  Consumer Choice and the Quality","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSchool choice seeks to create a competitive arena in which public schools will attain academic excellence, encourage student performance, and achieve social balance. This book analyses what parents value in education, how much they know about schools, and how well they can match what they say they want in schools with what their children get.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the Aaron Wildavsky Best Book Award \"[A] very comprehensive volume... The reader will be stimulated by the depth of analyses and the originality of the interpretations... Clearly, this book will be the standard departure point for further study on informing school choice.\"--Henry M. Levin, Urban Affairs Review \"This timely, thoughtful, and useful guide, which clearly favors educational choice as a solution to the many challenges facing American schools today, should be read by those on both sides of the debate.\"--Library Journal \"A rich ... interesting book... Choosing Schools is relentlessly fair in its efforts to stay true to the data.\"--Jeffrey R. Henig, Journal of Politics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Figures vii  List of Tables ix  Acknowlegments xiii  Introduction School Choice, Parent Incentives, and the Use of Information 3  PART ONE  Chapter 1 Reinventing the Governance Structure of Education: School Choice as Educational Reform 21  Chapter 2 Parent Behavior and the Demand Side of School Choice 39  Chapter 3 Studying Choice: The Research Design 59  PART TWO  Chapter 4 The Distribution of Preferences: What Do Parents Want from Schools? 87  Chapter 5 How Do Parents Search for Information? 108  Chapter 6 Building Social Networks to Search for Information about Schools 126  PART THREE  Chapter 7 The Distribution of Knowledge: How Much Do Parents Know about the Schools? 149  Chapter 8 Allocational Efficiency: You Can't Always Get What You Want -- But Some Do 164  Chapter 9 Productive Efficiency: Does School Choice Affect Academic Performance? 185  Chapter 10 Does Choice Increase Segregation and Stratification? 204  Chapter 11 Choosing Together Is Better than Bowling Alone: School Choice and the Creation of Social Capital 223  Chapter 12 Opting Out of Public Schools: Can Choice Affect the Relationship between Private and Public Schools? 238  CONCLUSION  Chapter 13 Myths and Markets: Choice Is No Panacea, But It Does Work 261  Notes 275  References 285  Index 307","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359104139607,"sku":"9780691092836","price":40.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691092836.jpg?v=1754123605","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/choosing-schools-consumer-choice-and-the-quality-of-american-schools-9780691092836","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}