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Public school choice vs. private school vouchers
2003, Century Foundation Press
in English
0870784846 9780870784842
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Table of Contents
Introduction : The three liberal responses to private school vouchers / Richard D. Kahlenberg
pt. 1. The false promise of school vouchers
Overview: Overblown claims and nagging questions / Gordon MacInnes ; The problem with private school tax exemptions / Richard C. Leone
Myth # 1. Vouchers raise student achievement: The early research on school vouchers / Gordon MacInnes ; Recent evidence on the effectiveness of school voucher programs / Bernard Wasow ; The problem of taking private school voucher programs to scale / Richard D. Kahlenberg
Myth #2. Vouchers are part of the new civil rights movement: Vouchers and Brown v. Board of Education / Richard C. Leone ; Vouchers and segregation / Century Foundation Task Force on the Common School ; Choice and segregation in New Zealand / Edward B. Fiske and Helen F. Ladd ; Private schools and segregation / Sean F. Reardon and John T. Yun ; Charter schools and racial and social class segregation / Amy Stuart Wells, et al. ; Choosing segregation / Gordon MacInnes
Myth #3. Vouchers promote democracy: Vouchers and citizenship / Richard D. Kahlenberg ; Why school choice could demolish national unity / Richard Just ; Religious schooling with public dollars / Gordon MacInnes
Myth #4. American public is clamoring for vouchers: Vouchers and public opinion / Ruy Teixeira ; Congress and school vouchers / Thad Hall
pt. 2. The public school choice alternative
Overview : Progressive alternatives to school vouchers / Brent Staples, et al. ; The people's choice for schools / Richard D. Kahlenberg
Public school choice : student achievement, integration, democracy, and public support: Equitable public school choice / Richard D. Kahlenberg ; Eliminating poverty concentrations through public school choice / Century Foundation Task Force on the Common School ; Public support for public school choice / Richard D. Kahlenberg.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-202).
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