Making up our mind : what school choice is really about /: what school choice is really about. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Sigal R. Ben-Porath and Michael C. Johanek.
• Authors: Ben-Porath, Sigal R, 1967-; Johanek, Michael C
• Contents: Introduction -- School choice today -- Not your parents' schooling -- Design trade-offs -- What follows -- Historical reflections on school choice. Original choices ; An educational ecology emerges ; Between Rome and Albany ; Rebels with causes ; Choosing neighbors and schools ; Brown: crawling past plessy ; The bus stops here ; Experimental visions ; Toward plural public education ; From plural visions to bounded choices ; Federal support shifts from magnets to charters -- The value of choice: a normative assessment. Whose education is it? ; Private options for education consumers ; Schools for the public, by the public ; Can parents be effective education consumers? ; Labs for innovation, or unaccountable "ghost districts"? ; Choice through privatization supports innovation ; The limits of innovation ; Limits of accountability through private choice ; Accountability through transparency ; Accountability through participation ; Accountability through sanctioning ; Accountability through resistance ; Equal access to quality education, or another layer of separation? ; Choice provides equal access to quality education ; Choice creates another layer of inequality and separation ; Higher-quality education? ; Equal access to quality education? ; New layers of separation -- Conclusion: making up our collective mind.
• Publisher Details: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (pages)
• Subjects: 379.1/11; School choice -- United States; Education -- Aims and objectives -- United States; Educational equalization -- United States; Education -- Aims and objectives; Educational equalization; School choice; EDUCATION / Administration / General; EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General; United States; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780226619774
• Related ISBNs: 022661977X; 9780226619460; 022661946X; 9780226619637; 022661963X
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 21, 2019).
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