ERIC Number: EJ456688
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Publication Date: 1992
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Can We Build a System of Choice That Is Not Just a "Sorting Machine" or a Market-Based "Free-for-All"?
Tyack, David
Equity and Choice, v9 n1 p13-17 Fall 1992
Argues that school choice plans should be limited to public schools. A system of controlled choice overcomes many problems associated with school choice. District 4 of the New York City public schools offers an example of how greater choice for parents has reinvigorated innercity schools. (SLD)
Descriptors: Decentralization, Educational Change, Educational Vouchers, Elementary Secondary Education, Free Choice Transfer Programs, Inner City, Magnet Schools, Nontraditional Education, Parent Participation, Policy Formation, Public Schools, School Choice, School Districts, School Restructuring, Systems Development, Urban Schools
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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