Making up our mind : what school choice is really about /: what school choice is really about. (2019)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- Making up our mind : what school choice is really about /: what school choice is really about. (2019)
- Main Title:
- Making up our mind : what school choice is really about
- 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.
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