School choice policies and outcomes
Subtitle: empirical and philosophical perspectives
By: edited by Walter Feinberg and Christopher Lubienski.
Contributors: Feinberg, Walter, 1937-; Lubienski, Christopher.
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780791475713
Subjects: School choice -- United States; Education and state -- United States; Educational equalization -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Walter Feinberg and Christopher Lubienski; title: Common schooling and educational choice as a response to pluralism / Rob Reich; title: Educational equality and varieties of school choice / Harry Brighouse; title: Evidence, the conservative paradigm, and school choice / Kenneth R. Howe; title: Intergenerational justice and school choice / Kathleen Knight Abowitz; title: The politics of parental choice : theory and evidence on quality information / Christopher Lubienski; title: Social class differences in school choice : the role of preferences / Courtney A. Bell; title: Managers of choice : race, gender, and the philosophies of the new urban school leadership / Janelle T. Scott; title: Where does the power lie now? devolution, choice, and democracy in schooling / Liz Gordon; title: Parental choice : the liberty principle in education finance in postapartheid South Africa / Bekisizwe S. Ndimande; title: The dialectic of parent rights and societal obligation : constraining educational choice / Walter Feinberg.