Leading intellectual figures in the school reform movement, all of them favoring approaches centered around the value of competition and choice, outlinedifferent visions for the goal of choice-oriented educational reform and the best means for achieving it. This volume takes the reader inside the movement to empower parents with choice, airing the more interesting debates that the reformers have with one another over the direction and strategy of their movement.

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Information

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Year

2011

ISBN

9780230119277

Topic

Education

Subtopic

Educational Psychology

Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of Tables and Figures
Foreword by Paul E. Peterson
Acknowledgments
1 The Big Rock Candy Mountain of EducationJay P. Greene
2 On the Way to School: Why and How to Make aMarket in EducationAndrew J. Coulson
3 The Design of School Choice Programs:A Systems ApproachGeorge A. Clowes
4 Private Choice as a Progressive Disruptive TechnologyMatthew Ladner
5 “Unbounded Liberty, and Even Caprice”:Why “School Choice” Is Dangerous to EducationSheldon Richman
6 Revolution at the Grassroots in Developing Countries:Implications for School Choice in AmericaPauline Dixon and James Tooley
7 Do Children Have a “Right” to an Education?C. Bradley Thompson
8 Universal Choice or Bust!Greg Forster
List of Contributors
Index