Product Description: While educators, parents and policymakers are still debating the pros and cons of school choice, it is now possible to learn from choice experiments in public, private, and charter schools across the country. This book examines the evidence from these early school choice programs and looks at the larger implications of choice and competition in education...read more

Outlines the battle over school choice in Wisconsin where minority students from the poorest sections of Milwaukee use money from the state to attend selected private schools in their neighborhoods

Product Description: This book examines ways in which school structures can change to increase parental involvement. This book offers a response to the policy failures associated with parent involvement in schools by arguing against traditional, piecemeal approaches to enhancing parent involvement in schools, and amplifying the importance of parents' social networks in the discussion of family-school partnerships...read more