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Milton Friedman is famous for his book title: “Free to Choose.” He also favors educational vouchers, which denies the freedom to choose to people who do not wish to subsidize the education of other people’s children. Thus, he is guilty of a logical contradiction. Why is it important to...
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segregation in English secondary schools in 2001, using a novel graphical method to explore its nature and spatial variation. We … composition, with arguments that ethnically segregated schools both retard the development of multi-ethnic understanding and … find substantial segregation on ethnic criteria in some places. Nevertheless, over the country as a whole, attendance at …
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-cut. When school choice measures do not depend on the proximity of pupils to their chosen schools, residential segregation …Dis-location considers the theory and empirical research behind the impact of school choice on residential segregation … to schools in the form of school buses. Policy could also increase equity by expanding choice to more pupils and enabling …
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tests. Racial segregation is frequently pointed out as one of the main factors behind this situation in the international … literature. We studied the effects of racial segregation on the black-white score gap for 5th-grade students in Brazil. Even … after the inclusion of several control variables, we found that the higher school racial segregation is, the higher the …
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This paper looks at the inclusion of excluded groups, notably the racial transformation of the South African university system. Both demand-side factors - are qualified black people hired as faculty? - and supply-side factors - are there enough qualified black people who can be hired as faculty?...
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Milton Friedman is famous for his book title: 'Free to Choose.' He also favors educational vouchers, which denies the freedom to choose to people who do not wish to subsidize the education of other people's children. Thus, he is guilty of a logical contradiction. Why is it important to assess...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010436073
decision to participate in England, but has a strong influence on institutional choice. Institution attendance probabilities …
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the decision to participate, but has a strong influence on institutional choice. Institution attendance probabilities fall …
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The use of choice as a mechanism to improve public service delivery is now well established in the UK. Current policy … assumption that choice (exit) and voice complement each other in creating user-driven incentives to increase quality for all … particular, I argue that in the current system, choice and voice may complement each other for only a subset of consumers. …
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