Hess, Frederick M.

Revolution at the margins the impact of competition on urban school systems / [electronic resource] : Frederick M. Hess. - Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2002. - xiv, 268 p.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-260) and index.

The market and the urban school system -- Urban systems as competitors -- Milwaukee, 1989-95 : prologue -- Milwaukee, 1995-99 : hints of the pickax -- Cleveland, 1995-99 : muffled by the din -- Edgewood, 1998-2000 : an outside invasion -- A political market -- You say you want a revolution?


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.






School choice--United States.
Educational change--United States.
Urban schools--United States.


Electronic books.

LB1027.9 / .H49 2002

379.1/11/0973