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School Choice and the Question of Accountability

The Milwaukee Experience

By: Emily Van Dunk,Anneliese M. Dickman

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School Choice and the Question of Accountability

The Milwaukee Experience

By: Emily Van Dunk,Anneliese M. Dickman

This timely book refocuses the debate about school choice programs with a nonpartisan assessment of the nation’s largest and longest-running private school voucher program—the high profile Milwaukee experiment—and finds that the system undercuts the promise of school choice. The authors argue that the Milwaukee experiment has not resulted in the one element necessary for school choice to be effective: an accountability system in which good schools thrive and poor schools close. They show that most ingredients of a robust market are missing. Well-informed consumers (parents) are not the norm. State fiscal incentives are counterproductive, and competition among public and choice schools is difficult to discern. They conclude that school choice could succeed if certain conditions were met, and they offer guidelines to strengthen accountability and repair the voucher system.

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Yale University Press

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0300127979

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9780300127973

Water and Aid in Mozambique

Gendered Perspectives of Change

By: Emily Van Houweling

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Water and Aid in Mozambique

Gendered Perspectives of Change

By: Emily Van Houweling

Analysing how water development projects unfolded in five rural communities in Mozambique, Emily Van Houweling offers an alternative perspective on water and the politicised nature of water management in the region. Using a hydro-social cycle framework, she demonstrates how water is tied to everyday life in matrilineal Nampula and how social relations, gender roles, and local politics were reconfigured during the project. While centring the experience of community members, Van Houweling also includes the perspectives of project implementers, showing how project plans were translated and negotiated as they worked their way down to the community. Employing the concept of organisational culture, Van Houweling reveals the tensions that resulted from different actors' decision-making processes and motivations, and illuminates possible explanations for the gaps between policy and practice. Exploring women's empowerment, community ownership, and participation, this book facilitates innovative ways for thinking about evaluation, sustainability, and gender-water relations.

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243

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Cambridge University Press

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1009239740

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9781009239745

School Choice and the Question of Accountability

The Milwaukee Experience

By: Emily Van Dunk,Anneliese Dickman

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School Choice and the Question of Accountability

The Milwaukee Experience

By: Emily Van Dunk,Anneliese Dickman

State fiscal incentives are counterproductive and competition among public and choice schools is difficult to discern." "The real-life result, Van Dunk and Dickman say, is that under the current system parents by themselves are unable to hold schools fully accountable. Instead of junking choice, the authors conclude that school choice could fulfill its promise if certain conditions were met, and they offer guidelines to strengthen accountability and repair the voucher program."--BOOK JACKET.

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0300099428

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9780300099423

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School Choice and the Question of Accountability

School Choice and the Question of Accountability

Water and Aid in Mozambique

Water and Aid in Mozambique

School Choice and the Question of Accountability

School Choice and the Question of Accountability

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