Responding to the Consumer: Parental Choice and School Effectiveness

1 August 1993

journal article
research article
Published by Taylor & Francis in School Effectiveness and School Improvement

Vol. 4 (3) , 205-229
https://doi.org/10.1080/0924345930040303

Abstract

This article reports on aspects of the PASCI (Parental and School Choice Interaction) Study which is investigating the interaction between school decision‐making and parental choice of school. The article focuses on findings concerning how schools in a pilot case study area (part of the PASCI Study's exploratory fieldwork) are responding to parental choice and competition between schools.

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