Title: Public school choice vs. private school vouchers /
Authors: Kahlenberg, Richard D.
Date: 2003
Publisher: Century Foundation Press,
Physical description: x, 202 pages ; 23 cm
Language: English
LC classification: L
Abstract: In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision upholding the constitutionality of public funding for private religious schools, the debate over private school vouchers has intensified. This volume is a compilation of articles, papers, and discussions on public school choice and private school vouchers.
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.
Notes: "A Century Foundation volume of essays."
Subject headings (LCSH): Educational vouchers--United States.; School choice--United States.