School Choice and School Governance: A Historical Study of the United States and Germany

ISBN-13: 9781403973023 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 207 str.

Jurgen Herbst

Opis

For over 200 years legislators, educators, and public-minded citizens have debated ways of governing their country's public schools. In these debates the opportunity, or its absence, of participating in the choice and the administration of their children's school has been an ever-present concern to parents. This book reviews these debates and discusses such present-day school choice related issues as racial integration, ethnicity, social class, vouchers, charter, magnet and private schools in the United States, the former German Democratic Republic, and the Federal Republic of Germany.

Recenzje

"Jurgen Herbst's latest work is a path-breaking study of school choice as it has developed over the past two centuries, fascinating for what it tells us about parents, schools, and education policy in general." - Professor Gary McCulloch, Brian Simon Professor of the History of Education, Institute of Education, University of London

Spis treści

Introduction: School Choice: A Brief Overview Beginnings The Systematization of Public Education School Governance and School Choice 1900-1950 School Choice in the United States after World War II Schulwahl in the Post World War II Period Retrospect and Outlook

O autorze

JURGEN HERBST is Professor Emeritus of Educational Policy Studies and History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.