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Wagner, Tony – Phi Delta Kappan, 1996
Debunks two fantasies: the feasibility of a free-market educational system and the idea that greater choice automatically means better schools. Public education is too labor-intensive and undercapitalized to be profitable. Communities need "skunk works" schools of choice to do research and development and smaller, collaboratively managed…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Educational Improvement, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
