School choice
Subtitle: examining the evidence
By: Edith Rasell, Richard Rothstein, editors.
Contributors: Rasell, M. Edith.; Rothstein, Richard.; Economic Policy Institute.
Publisher: Economic Policy Institute
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 364
Subjects: School choice -- Social aspects -- United States.; Public schools -- United States.; Private schools -- United States.; Academic achievement -- United States.
Description: xiv, 364 : 23 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-350) and index.
"Foreword by Ernest L. Boyer"--Cover.
Table of contents: title: The sociology of school choice : why some win and others lose in the educational marketplace / Amy Stuart Wells; title: The Scottish experience of parental school choice / J. Douglas Willms and Frank H. Echols; title: The Milwaukee parental choice program / John F. Witte; title: Effects of choice in education / Stephen Plank ... [et al.]; title: Comments and general discussion / Michael Alves and Paul L. Pryde, Jr.; title: Choice, achievement, and school community / Mary Erina Driscoll; title: Assessing private school effects : implications for school choice / Peter W. Cookson, Jr.; title: Science or policy argument? A review of the quantitative evidence in Chubb and Moe's Politics, markets, and America's schools / Valerie E. Lee and Anthony S. Bryk; title: A re-examination of Chubb and Moe's Politics, markets, and America's schools / Marla E. Sukstorf, Amy Stuart Wells, and Robert L. Crain; title: The forest and the trees : a response to our critics / John E. Chubb and Terry M. Moe; title: Science or policy argument? A rejoinder to Chubb and Moe / Anthony S. Bryk and Valerie E. Lee; title: A final word on Chubb and Moe / Marla E. Sukstorf, Amy Stuart Wells, and Robert L. Crain; title: Comments and general discussion / Paul Hill and Herbert J. Grover; title: New York City's career magnet high schools : lessons about creating equity within choice programs / Robert L. Crain; title: Democratizing choice : reinventing, not retreating from, public education / Michelle Fine; title: Comments and general discussion / Herbert J. Walberg and Anthony J. Alvarado; title: A dialogue between two educators / Michael Cohen and Chester E. Finn ; moderated by Kathleen Matthews.