School choice policies and outcomes : empirical and philosophical perspectives /
"Perhaps no school reform has generated as much interest and controversy in recent years as the proposal to have parents select their children's schools. The contributors to this volume not only provide a clear assessment of the logic and evidence supporting the different sides of the deba...
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Walter Feinberg and Christopher Lubienski
- Common schooling and educational choice as a response to pluralism / Rob Reich
- Educational equality and varieties of school choice / Harry Brighouse
- Evidence, the conservative paradigm, and school choice / Kenneth R. Howe
- Intergenerational justice and school choice / Kathleen Knight Abowitz
- The politics of parental choice : theory and evidence on quality information / Christopher Lubienski
- Social class differences in school choice : the role of preferences / Courtney A. Bell
- Managers of choice : race, gender, and the philosophies of the new urban school leadership / Janelle T. Scott
- Where does the power lie now? devolution, choice, and democracy in schooling / Liz Gordon
- Parental choice : the liberty principle in education finance in postapartheid South Africa / Bekisizwe S. Ndimande
- The dialectic of parent rights and societal obligation : constraining educational choice / Walter Feinberg