Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has declared school voucher programs constitutional, the many unanswered questions … concerning the potential effects of school choice will become especially pressing. Contributors to this volume draw on state …-of-the-art economic methods to answer some of these questions, investigating the ways in which school choice affects a wide range of …

, school evaluation and school system evaluation. It has been developed using the majority of key design principles recommended … their communities, school development planning processes are also monitored as part of external school evaluation by a … entirely school based, but there is a set of common competence standards for teachers. …

education they receive. School enrollment rates have increased dramatically in developing counties since 1960, but many children … still leave school at a young age and often learn little while in school. This chapter reviews recent research on the impact …