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Berends, Mark, Ed.; Cannata, Marisa, Ed.; Goldring, Ellen B., Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 2011
"School Choice and School Improvement" brings together a collection of exemplary, policy-relevant papers that examine how communities, districts, and states use choice as a strategy for improving schools and student learning. The book includes sophisticated and insightful research on private schools and vouchers; charter schools and traditional…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Private Schools, Transfer Programs, Racial Segregation
Rethinking Schools, Ltd. Milwaukee, WI. – 1996
The central issue in educational reform should be how to confront educational inequalities, but the conservative movement has tried to transform the issue from one of inequality to one of "choice." The choice being promoted by conservative forces comes at the expense of community in that it seeks to set up schools that respond to the…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Conservatism, Democracy, Educational Change
Billingsley, K. L., Ed. – 1994
This collection presents a sampling of opinions of both proponents and opponents in the school choice debate from a variety of professional perspectives, including academics, bureaucrats, politicians, union leaders, economists, lawyers, parents, and activists. The following essays are included: (1) "School Choice Promotes Educational…
Descriptors: American Indians, Black Students, Decision Making, Educational Attitudes