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School Accountability, Autonomy and Choice Around the World (Ifo Economic Policy)

Accountability, autonomy and choice are now the watchwords of education reformers around the globe. This book presents new evidence from the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) test on whether students perform better in school systems with such institutional measures in place. It also provides a theoretical framework for considering these reforms and summarizes previous international evidence. The results confirm that various policies promoting accountability, autonomy and choice are strongly associated with higher achievement for students from both disadvantaged and advantaged backgrounds. In particular, choice through public funding for private schools is associated with both higher performance overall and higher equality of opportunity. Providing detailed and rich facets of different forms of accountability, autonomy and choice, this book is unique in its empirically based and internationally oriented treatment of this up-to-date policy topic. It will be of great interest to academics, policy-makers and practitioners, as well as students in education policy and in the economics of education.

Author: Ludger Woessmann, Elke Luedemann, Gabriela Schuetz, Martin R. West,

Binding: Hardcover

EAN: 9781848445291

Condition: New

Manufacturer: Edward Elgar Pub

Number of pages: 143

Product group: Book

Studio: Edward Elgar Pub

Publication Date: 2009-06-30

Publisher: Edward Elgar Pub

Pages: 143

ISBN: 1848445296

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Ludger Wößmann ist Professor für Volkswirtschaftslehre, insbesondere Bildungsökonomik an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München und leitet das ifo Zentrum für Bildungsökonomik am ifo Institut. Seine zentralen Forschungsfragen sind, was langfristigen Wohlstand und schulische Leistungen beeinflusst.