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Chen,T. (2023). A Comparative Study of School District Systems in China and the United States: An Analysis Based on School Choice in the Elementary Education Stage. Lecture Notes in Education Psychology and Public Media,24,276-282.
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[4]. United States. Office of Educational Research, Improvement. Center for Education Statistics, & Institute of Education Sciences (US). (2010). Digest of education statistics (Vol. 46). US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Education Division, National Center for Education Statistics.
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[6]. Cookson, P. W. and Schneider, B. (2014). Why School Choice? In Transforming Schools, 557-577. Routledge.
[7]. Dong, H. and Li, L. (2019). School choice in China: Past, present, and future. ECNU Review of Education, 2(1), 95-103. https://doi.org/10.1177/2096531119840854.
[8]. Liu, S. and Apple, M. W. (2016). Parental Choice of School, Class Strategies, and Educational Inequality: An Essay Review of School Choice in China—A Different Tale? (X. Wu, New York, NY: Routledge, 2014, 168 Pp. ISBN 978-0-415-81769-1). Educational Policy, 30(6), 940-955. https://doi.org/10.1177/0895904816653633.
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[11]. Powers, J. M. and Cookson Jr, P. W. (1999). The politics of school choice research: Fact, fiction, and statistics. Educational Policy, 13(1), 104-122.
[12]. Moe, T. M. (2008). Beyond the free market: The structure of school choice. BYU L. Rev., 557.
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[16]. Hu, Y. and Tu, Y. (2006). Equity and Efficiency Analysis of the School Choice System in the United States. Foreign Primary and Secondary Education, 12, 1-11.
[17]. Hawkins, J. N. (2000). Centralization, decentralization, recentralization‐Educational reform in China. Journal of Educational Administration, 38(5), 442-455.
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[19]. Reese, W. J. (1999). The origins of the American high school. Yale University Press.
[20]. Ryan, J. E. (1999). Schools, race, and money. The Yale Law Journal, 109(2), 249-316.
[21]. Wang, Y. (2022). The development, problems and improvement of school district system in China. Curriculum and Teaching Research, (12), 12-14.
[22]. Zhang, X., Shi, Q. and Liu, L. (2022). Democracy and bureaucracy in American education: An analysis of school district governance. Journal of Educational Administration, 60(3), 435-453.
[23]. Hong, Y. and Cui, Y. (2022). Principal leadership in China: A review and future research agenda. Educational Administration Quarterly, 58(2), 291–329.
[24]. Beckham, J., Wills, B. K. and Weeks, K. M. (2016). School Boards: responsibilities, duties, decision making and legal basis for local school board powers.