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The market approach to education

John F. Witte

2001,2000,1999

Overview

Milwaukee, one of the nation's most segregated metropolitan areas, implemented in 1990 a school choice program aimed at improving the education of inner-city children by enabling them to attend a selection of private schools. The results of this experiment, however, have been overshadowed by the explosion of emotional debate it provoked nationwide. In this book, John Witte provides a broad yet detailed framework for understanding the Milwaukee experiment and its implications for the market approach to American education. In a society supposedly devoted to equality of opportunity, the concept of school choice or voucher programs raises deep issues about liberty versus equality, government versus market, and about our commitment to free and universal education. Witte brings a balanced perspective to the picture by demonstrating why it is wrongheaded to be pro- or anti-school choice in the abstract. He explains why the voucher program seems to be working in the specific case of Milwaukee, but warns that such programs would not necessarily promote equal education—and most likely harm the poor—if applied universally, across the socioeconomic spectrum.

• Publisher: Princeton University Press,California Princeton Fulfillment Services
• Subject: Activism / Administration / Alternative education / Alternative school / At-risk students / BE Education / Brown v. Board of Education / Case studies / Choice School / Class size / Classroom / Committee for Economic Development / Common school / Compulsory education / Curriculum / Curriculum development / EDUCATION / EDUCATION / General / Education Act / Education in the United States / Education policy / Education reform / Education Week / Education, Urban / Education, Urban -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee -- Case studies / Educational attainment / Educational institution / Educational organization / Educational research / Educational stage / Educational Vouchers / Educational vouchers -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee -- Case studies / Elementary Secondary Education / Equal Education / Free Enterprise System / Further education / Grading (education) / Higher education / Homeschooling / Income / Inner City / Institute for Justice / Institute of Public Affairs / Integrated education / Kindergarten / Learning environment / Magnet school / Market economy / Market Systems Approach / Milwaukee / Milwaukee Case studies / Milwaukee Public Schools WI / Montessori education / Mueller v. Allen / National Assessment of Educational Progress / National Center for Education Statistics / National Education Association / Of Education / Parochial school / Pedagogy / Philosophy of education / Policy / Policy debate / Preschool / Primary school / Private school / Private Schools / Program Effectiveness / Public expenditure / Public school (United Kingdom) / Public Schools / Religious education / Remedial education / Report card / School / School Choice / School choice -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee -- Case studies / School district / School of education / School voucher / Secondary education / State school / Student / Subsidy / Teaching method / Tuition payments / Voucher / Waldorf education / Wisconsin
• ISBN: 1400808642, 1400823315, 9781400823314, 0691089833, 9781400808649, 9780691089836, 9780691009445, 0691009449