Markets and Myths: Autonomy in Public and Private Schools

Creator

Sandra Rubin Glass

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Publisher

Arizona State University, University of South Florida

Publication Date

January 1997

Abstract

School choice is the most controversial education policy of the 1990s. John Chubb and Terry Moe's Politics, Markets and America's Schools stimulated this investigation. They concluded that teacher and administrator autonomy was the most important influence on student achievement. They assumed that the organization of private schools offered greater autonomy resulting in higher student achievement and that the bureaucracy of public schools stifles autonomy limiting student achievement. The research undertaken here elaborates, elucidates, and fills in the framework of teacher and principal autonomy in public and private secondary schools.

Keywords

Private schools, Public schools

Extent

51

Volume

5

Issue

1

Language

English

Media Type

Journals (Periodicals)

Format

Digital Only

Identifier

E11-00070

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.

Recommended Citation

Glass, Sandra Rubin, "Markets and Myths: Autonomy in Public and Private Schools" (1997). Education Policy Analysis Archives (EPAA). 11.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/usf_EPAA/11