School choice seeks to create a competitive arena in which public schools will attain academic excellence, encourage individual student performance, and achieve social balance. In debating the feasibility of this market approach to improving school systems, analysts have focused primarily on schools as suppliers of education, but an important question remains: Will parents be able to function as "smart consumers" on behalf of their children? Here a highly respected team of social scientists provides extensive empirical evidence on how parents currently do make these choices. Drawn from...
School choice seeks to create a competitive arena in which public schools will attain academic excellence, encourage individual student performance...
In Accountability in American Higher Education prominent academics, entrepreneurs, and journalists assess the obstacles to, and potential opportunities for, accountability in higher education in America. Providing analysis that can be used to engage institutions of higher education in the difficult but necessary conversation of accountability.
In Accountability in American Higher Education prominent academics, entrepreneurs, and journalists assess the obstacles to, and potential opportunitie...
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich BWL - Controlling, Note: 1,7, Hochschule fur Angewandte Wissenschaften Neu-Ulm; fruher Fachhochschule Neu-Ulm, 20 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Durch die fortschreitende Spezialisierung der Betriebe, den Einsatz neuer Technologien und die steigende Produktkomplexitat kommt der Arbeitsvorbereitung als Bindeglied zwischen Konstruktion und Fertigung eine immer umfangreichere Bedeutung hinsichtlich der Sicherstellung einer wirtschaftlichen Fertigung zu. Aus diesem Grund ist heute eine genaue Kenntnis der Ablaufe in der...
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich BWL - Controlling, Note: 1,7, Hochschule fur Angewandte Wissenschaften Neu-Ulm; fruher Fachhochschule N...
The United States, long considered to have the best higher education in the world, now ranks eleventh in the proportion of 25- to 34-year-olds with a college degree. As other countries have made dramatic gains in degree attainment, the U.S. has improved more slowly. In response, President Obama recently laid out a national -completion agenda- with the goal of making the U.S. the best-educated nation in the world by the year 2020. Getting to Graduation explores the reforms that we must pursue to recover a position of international leadership in higher education as well as the...
The United States, long considered to have the best higher education in the world, now ranks eleventh in the proportion of 25- to 34-year-olds with...
In Accountability in American Higher Education prominent academics, entrepreneurs, and journalists assess the obstacles to, and potential opportunities for, accountability in higher education in America. Providing analysis that can be used to engage institutions of higher education in the difficult but necessary conversation of accountability.
In Accountability in American Higher Education prominent academics, entrepreneurs, and journalists assess the obstacles to, and potential opportunitie...
