Hess, Frederick M.

Revolution at the margins the impact of competition on urban school systems / [electronic resource] : Frederick M. Hess. - Washington, D.C., Eash. : Brookings Institution Press, c2002. - 1 online resource.

Includes bibliographical references 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?

9780815702085 9780815798576 (electronic bk.)


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

LB1027.9 / .H49 2002