1. The Marketization of New Zealand Schools: Assessing Fiske and Ladd.
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Woodfield, Alan and Gunby, Philip
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EDUCATION ,EDUCATIONAL change ,EDUCATIONAL planning ,EDUCATIONAL innovations ,COMPREHENSIVE school reform ,EDUCATIONAL equalization ,EDUCATIONAL quality ,TEACHERS - Abstract
The article discusses the major market-based education reforms in New Zealand. Household choices of where children should be schooled are expanded by proposals for market-based school reforms. It is argued that the New Zealand experiment is the most thorough and dramatic transformation of a compulsory state education system ever undertaken by an industrialized economy. Central authorities have a role in determining teacher employment contracts, approving school charters and maintaining educational standards. Much of the research concerns the impact of the reforms of educational equality rather then educational quality.
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- 2003
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