The uneven playing field of school choice : evidence from New Zealand
By: LADD, Helen F
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Contributor(s): FISKE, Edward B.
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ArticlePublisher: 2001Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 20 n.1 2001, 1, p. 43-64Abstract: New Zealand`s 10-year experience with self-governing schools operating in a competitive environment provides new insights into school choice initiatives now being hotly debated in the United States with limited evidence. This article examines how New Zealand`s system of parental choice of schools played out in that country`s three major urban areas with particular emphasis on the sorting of students by ethnic and socioeconomic status. The analysis documents that schools with large initial proportions of minorities (Maori and Pacific Island students in the New Zealand context) where at a clear disadvantage in the educational market place relative to other schools and that the effect was to generate a system in which gaps between the "successful"and the "unsucessful"schools became wider
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New Zealand`s 10-year experience with self-governing schools operating in a competitive environment provides new insights into school choice initiatives now being hotly debated in the United States with limited evidence. This article examines how New Zealand`s system of parental choice of schools played out in that country`s three major urban areas with particular emphasis on the sorting of students by ethnic and socioeconomic status. The analysis documents that schools with large initial proportions of minorities (Maori and Pacific Island students in the New Zealand context) where at a clear disadvantage in the educational market place relative to other schools and that the effect was to generate a system in which gaps between the "successful"and the "unsucessful"schools became wider
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