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The Market Comes to Education in Sweden: An Evaluation of Sweden s Surprising School Reforms by Russell Sage Foundation.;Bjorklund, Anders;Clark, Melissa A.;Edin, per-Anders;Fredriksson, Peter;Krueger, Alan B is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Title Page 1 Copyright 4 Contents 5 About the Authors 7 Preface 9 1. Introduction 11 2. Education, Equality, and Efficiency 21 3. Education, Skills, and Earnings: The Swedish Record 30 4. Resources, Decentralization, and Student Achievement 46 5. Teacher Supply 68 6. The Consequences of School Choice 86 7. Quantitative Tests as an Evaluation Device 108 8. The Impact of Education and Education Policy on Family Background and Earnings 124 9. Conclusions 136 Notes 149 References 157 Index 171 Publisher:Russell Sage Foundation,Published:2005,ISBN:9781610440554,Related ISBN:9780871541406,Language:English,OCLC:794929282 A large central government providing numerous public services has long been a hallmark of Swedish society, which is also well-known for its pursuit of equality. Yet in the 1990s, Sweden moved away from this tradition in education, introducing market-oriented reforms that decentralized authority over public schools and encouraged competition between private and public schools. Many wondered if this approach would improve educational quality, or if it might expand inequality that Sweden has fought so hard to hold down. In The Market Comes to Education in Sweden, economists
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- Author
- Russell Sage Foundation.;Bjorklund, Anders;Clark, Melissa A.;Edin, per-Anders;Fredriksson, Peter;Krueger, Alan B
- Publisher
- Russell Sage Foundation. 112 East 64th Street, New York, NY 10065. Tel: 212-750-6000; Fax: 212-371-4761; e-mail: [email protected]; Web site: http://www.russellsage.org
- Published
- 2006
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781610440554
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Education, Economics, History
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