Balancing freedom, autonomy, and accountability in education | Volume 3

Freedom, autonomy and accountability are commonly regarded as very important, but policy-makers do not always pay sufficient attention to the tensions among them. Thus freedom or school autonomy may be sacrificed to accountability, or accountability may be weakened in an effort to provide a wider range of choices for parents, or to give more decision-making authority to individual schools. The authors are convinced that wise design and implementation can produce a successful balance among freedom, autonomy, and accountability, and that considering the approaches adopted by different educational systems can contribute both to design and to implementation.
 
This four volume collection presents a worldwide overview of the status of freedom, autonomy, and accountability in education, with detailed information on forty countries. 

This publication is a useful reference manual for students, government officials, educational lawyers and policy-makers.
 
Volume 3included chapters on national education systems, describing the laws and policies under which both public and non-public schools operate in each. 

TABLE OF CONTENTS 

Introduction Charles Glenn and Jan De Groof
 Albania Nikoleta Mita and Juliana Latifi
 Argentina Hugo Chavez, Rodrigo Agrelo and Cara Stillings Candal
 Australia Brian Caldwell
 Belarus Iryna Ulasiuk
 Brazil Nina Ranieri
 Canada Derek J. Allison and Deani A. Neven Van Pelt
 Chile Francisco J. Leturia I. and Francisca Vallejo
 Colombia Jorge Alberto Mahecha Rodríguez and Luis Enrique García De Brigard
 Cuba Daniele Vidoni
 El Salvador Daniele Vidoni
 Iceland Margrét Hardardóttir 
Israel Moshe Cohen-Eliya and Amos Zehavi 
Jordan Mahasen M. Aljaghoub
 Mexico Rosa Elena Terán Morales and Jorge Alberto Mahecha Rodríguez 
New Zealand Carol Mutch
 Philippines Vivian Talisayon and others
 Qatar Louay Constant, Charles A. Goldman and Gail L. Zellman
 South Africa Rika Joubert and Willem van Vollenhoven with Johan Beckmann and Justus Prinsloo
 United States Charles Glenn and Charles Russo 
Autonomy and Accountability in the New Era of American Education Cara Stillings Candal
 A Snapshot of School Choice in the United States Paul DiPerna
 Uruguay Pablo Landoni