Public school choice vs. private school vouchers / Richard D. Kahlenberg, editor.
2003
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Title
Public school choice vs. private school vouchers / Richard D. Kahlenberg, editor.
Published
New York : Century Foundation Press, [2003]
Copyright
©2003
Call Number
LB1027.9 .P73 2003
ISBN
0870784846
Description
x, 202 pages ; 23 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)53217086
Note
"A Century Foundation volume of essays."
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references.
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Table of Contents
Foreword / Richard C. Leone
1
Introduction: The Three Liberal Responses to Private School Vouchers / Richard D. Kahlenberg
1
Pt. I
The False Promise of School Vouchers
9
2
Overview
Overblown Claims and Nagging Questions / Gordon MacInnes
11
The Problem with Private School Tax Exemptions / Richard C. Leone
31
3
Myth #1: Vouchers Raise Student Achievement
33
The Early Research on School Vouchers / Gordon MacInnes
33
Recent Evidence on the Effectiveness of School Voucher Programs / Bernard Wasow
41
The Problem of Taking Private School Voucher Programs to Scale / Richard D. Kahlenberg
51
4
Myth #2: Vouchers Are Part of the New Civil Rights Movement
61
Vouchers and Brown v. Board of Education / Richard C. Leone
61
Vouchers and Segregation The Century Foundation Task Force on the Common School
63
Choice and Segregation in New Zealand / Edward B. Fiske Helen F. Ladd
65
Private Schools and Segregation / Sean F. Reardon John T. Yun
71
Charter Schools and Racial and Social Class Segregation / Amy Stuart Wells Jennifer Jellison Holme Alejandra Lopez Camille Wilson Cooper
81
Choosing Segregation / Gordon MacInnes
89
5
Myth #3: Vouchers Promote Democracy
93
Vouchers and Citizenship / Richard D. Kahlenberg
93
Why School Choice Could Demolish National Unity / Richard Just
97
Religious Schooling with Public Dollars / Gordon MacInnes
101
6
Myth #4: American Public Is Clamoring for Vouchers
105
Vouchers and Public Opinion / Ruy Teixeira
105
Congress and School Vouchers / Thad Hall
115
Pt. II
The Public School Choice Alternative
123
7
Overview
125
Progressive Alternatives to School Vouchers / Brent Staples Christopher Edley, Jr. Elliot Mincberg Adam Urbanski
125
The People's Choice for Schools / Richard D. Kahlenberg
133
8
Public School Choice: Student Achievement, Integration, Democracy, and Public Support
137
Equitable Public School Choice / Richard D. Kahlenberg
137
Eliminating Poverty Concentrations through Public School Choice The Century Foundation Task Force on the Common School
153
Public Support for Public School Choice / Richard D. Kahlenberg
171
Notes
177