Equity and Efficiency?: School Management in an International ContextInherent in the educational policies of most countries are concerns to make education both more efficient and more equitable. In theory these goals are not incompatible. However this book examines the reasons why, in practice, the harmonization of equity and efficiency has not proved feasible. |
Contents
Centralization Decentralization and Control | 11 |
3 | 36 |
4 | 56 |
Ethnicity Pluralism and Antiracism | 89 |
6 | 129 |
8 | 158 |
The Management of Equity Policies in the School | 179 |
Management as distributive politics | 197 |
Bibliography | 217 |
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