How Choice Changes the Education System: A Michigan Case Study |
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| Authors: | Plank David Sykes Gary |
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| Institution: | (1) Michigan State Univeristy, 419 Erickson Hall, East Lansing, MI, 48824-1034;(2) Michigan State University, 410 Erickson Hall, East Lansing, MI, 48824-1034 |
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| Abstract: | In countries around the world policy makers propose that parents should exercise more control over the choice of schools that their children attend. This paper considers the ways in which the introduction of new opportunities for school choice changes the education system. It argues that choice affects the education system as a whole by introducing new actors into the system, by changing the terms of relationships among existing actors, and by creating new pressures within the system that require new responses. The nature, magnitude, and consequences of these effects cannot be predicted in advance, as they depend on a number of factors including the social and economic context. The empirical basis for this paper derives from a case study of the implementation of choice policies in the state of Michigan in the US, but the conceptual issues raised have important implications for the study of school choice wherever such policies are adopted. |
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