Rethinking School Choice

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ISBN: 9780691044729 | 0691044724
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 7/24/1995

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Advocates of school vouchers and other choice proposals couch their arguments in the fashionable language of economic theory. Choice initiatives at all levels of government have succeeded, it is claimed, because they shift responsibility for education reform from government to market forces. This timely book disputes the appropriateness of the market metaphor as a guide to education policy.

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List of Figures and Tables
Preface
The Call for Choice and Radical Reform	p. 3
The Political Meaning of "Crisis"	p. 26
Application of the Market Model	p. 57
Repackaging Choice	p. 78
Evolving Practice: Problematic Lessons from History	p. 101
Uses of Evidence: The Empirical Case that "Choice Works"	p. 117
Reinterpreting the Lessons of Experience	p. 149
How Market-Based Plans Will Fail	p. 174
Putting Educational Choice in Its Place	p. 196
Afterword	p. 223
Notes	p. 243
Index	p. 291
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