Incentivising excellence: school choice and education quality
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School choice has in the past decades gone from a fringe academic theory to become a mainstream policy option exercised by governments worldwide. In theory, school choice and competition can increase achievement through facilitating better matches between pupil and school (‘choice effects’), allowing the reallocation of pupils to better schools (‘school effects’), and forcing schools to compete to attract pupils (‘competition effects’). The success of these effects depends on a number of assumptions being met:
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تاریخ انتشار 2013