School Accountability, Autonomy, and Choice Around the World

摘要

One of the most important questions facing policymakers today is how best to provide education so that both students and society achieve the optimal level of education. When debating this issue, policymakers are often concerned about how to hold schools accountable for student outcomes, what level of autonomy to grant to principals, and how much choice to give parents over where their children go to school. Most literature on the effects of educational reform on these three fronts uses data from one country to estimate the effects rather than using data from several countries. School Accountability, Autonomy, and Choice Around the World fills this gap in the literature by utilizing an international survey to estimate the effects of different levels of accountability, autonomy, and choice on student outcomes.