School Choice Policies and Outcomes : Empirical and Philosophical Perspectives

"Perhaps no school reform has generated as much interest and controversy in recent years as the proposal to have parents select their children's schools. The contributors to this volume not only provide a clear assessment of the logic and evidence supporting the different sides of the debate but also unmask the assumptions about the relationship between markets, government, and educational achievement. Their message is that neither markets nor government alone will guarantee freedom, equality, achievement, or community. If choice is to improve education and advance equality, then educational policy cannot be placed on automatic and left to the "free" market. Rather, choice policy must be deliberately directed toward meeting these goals, and this book shows how that could be accomplished."--BOOK JACKET.