Politics, market and school

Author: Chubb John E.
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Publish Date: 2003-01-01
Features: Education and National Development Series. Politics, Markets, and Schools is a groundbreaking educational research work by Professor John E. Chubb and Professor Terry M. Moe of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, as well as a highly controversial bestseller published by Brookings Institution in 1990. It has been widely cited in academic studies on contemporary educational reforms. The book uses 500 public and private schools as analytical samples and examines over 20,000 students, teachers, and principals, collecting vast amounts of data. It proposes bold and radical educational reform views: strongly advocating for market-oriented education, introducing free-market principles into the U.S. education system, and reforming U.S. public middle and high schools through the model of private schools. The authors are active proponents of the "school choice" movement in the U.S. and Western countries, and the book is widely recognized by Western educational theorists as one of the most influential works on educational reform in the last decade of the 20th century.