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. …

School finance and urban education reform / Christopher Roellke and Jennifer King Rice -- Can whole-school reform … improve the productivity of urban schools? : the evidence on three models / Robert Bifulco -- Whole school reform and school … / Nicola Alexander -- School performance and resource use : the role of districts in New York City / Patrice Iatarola, Leanna …