Selling Out Our Schools

Articles include:

The Hollow Promise of School Vouchers by Robert Lowe

The Debate is About Privatization, Not 'Choice' An Interview with Deborah Meier

Vouchers Would Devastate Our Schools by Rep. Maxine Waters

Chicago: Public School Choice and Inequality by Jonathan Kozol

'Vouchers Are a Smokescreen'
An Interview with Linda Darling-Hammond

Will Markets or Democracy Prevail? by Alex Molnar

Vouchers, Markets, and The Future of Public Education

Edited by Robert Lowe and Barbara Miner

Vouchers are one of the hottest controversies in school reform.

Selling Out Our Schools covers the major issues surrounding not only vouchers but efforts to privatize our public schools and make them beholden to the marketplace. It includes a special section on the conservative agenda for education.

Selling Out Our Schools is an invaluable resource. More than 35 articles by nationally respected educators and policy makers explain how vouchers and marketplace approaches to education threaten our basic concepts of equality and opportunity.

See the complete Table of Contents with links to the full text of selected articles.

Check out our special collection of links on school vouchers.