Diversity, Choice and the Quasi-Market: An Empirical Analysis of Secondary Education Policy in England
Diversity, Choice and the Quasi-Market: An Empirical Analysis of Secondary Education Policy in England
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多样性、选择和准市场：英国中等教育政策的实证分析
DOI：
10.1111/j.1468-0084.2009.00572.x
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2010
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Jim Taylor
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S. Bradley;Jim Taylor
本文调查了三项主要教育改革对义务教育结束时考试成绩的影响程度：1988年《教育改革法》（education Reform Act）后引入准市场；1994年推出的特殊学校倡议；以及1999年推出的卓越城市计划。通过对英格兰所有公立中学（1992-2006）的一组调查，我们发现，学校考试成绩的提高中，只有大约三分之一是直接归因于这三项主要教育改革的综合影响。然而，这项政策的分配结果估计是有利的，来自贫困家庭的学生比例最高的学校取得了最大的收益。
This article investigates the extent to which exam performance at the end of compulsory education has been affected by three major education reforms: the introduction of a quasi-market following the Education Reform Act (1988); the specialist schools initiative introduced in 1994; and the Excellence in Cities programme introduced in 1999. Using a panel of schools for all state-funded secondary schools in England (1992–2006), we find that only about one-third of the improvement in school exam scores is directly attributable to the combined effect of these three major education reforms. The distributional consequences of the policy, however, are estimated to have been favourable, with the greatest gains being achieved by schools with the highest proportion of pupils from poor families.