 Vouchers,
Markets, and The Future of Public Education
Edited by Robert Lowe and Barbara Miner
Click here for a special collection of
links on school vouchers.
"Selling Out Our Schools" is divided into three main
sections (click on the section heading to go there):
- INTRODUCTION: Why We Are Publishing "Selling Out Our Schools"
- By the Editors of Rethinking Schools
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SECTION 1: VOUCHERS AND MARKET IDEOLOGY
- The
Hollow Promise of School Vouchers
- By Robert Lowe
- The
Market is Not the Answer
- An Interview with Jonathan Kozol
- Questions and Answers about School Choice
- By the Editors of Rethinking Schools
- Lessons from the Voucher War
- By Ann Bastian
- Lessons
of Chile's Voucher Reform
- By Martin Carnoy
- A Battle for the Soul of Public Education
- By Warren Furutani
- The Debate Is About Privatization, Not 'Choice'
- An interview with Deborah Meier
- The Danger of Market Rhetoric
- By Jeffrey Henig
- Markets and Schools
- By Peter Cookson, Jr
- 'Vouchers Are a Smokescreen'
- An interview with Linda Darling~Hammond
- Will Markets or Democracy Prevail?
- By Alex Molnar
- The GI Bill Doesn't Vouch for Vouchers
- By Robert Lowe
- Vouchers Would Devastate Our Schools
- By U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA)
- Playing Politics with 'Choice'
- By Gary Orfield
- 'Choice' and Public School Reform
- By Robert Peterkin
- What We Can Learn from Milwaukee
- By Barbara Miner
- Schundler's Coucher Crusade for Jersey City
- By Stan Karp
- Choice, Chelsea, and Clinton
- By Robert Lowe
- Teaching Students to Be Consumers
- By Phyllis Sides
- Our Schools Need Money, Not Rhetoric
- By CJ Prentiss
- Church/State Separation Vital to Democracy
- By Marvin Frankel
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SECTION 2: PUBLIC CHOICE AND CHARTERS
- Charter Schools: Potentials and Pitfalls
- An Interview with Ann Bastian
- Charters: Finding the Courage to Face Our Contradictions
- By Eric Rofes
- Jingletown: One Charter School's Story/B>
By Tamara Prevost and Margarita Jimenez-Silva
Total Decentralization: Too Much of a Good Thing?
By Bob Peterson
Public School Choice: Keeping the Focus on Equity
By Ann Bastian
For-Profit Firms Fail to Deliver
By Barbara Miner
Massachusetts: Robbing the Poor
By Stan Karp
Chicago: Public School Choice and Inequality
By Jonathan Kozol
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SECTION 3: THE CONSERVATIVE AGENDA
Bradley Foundation Bankrolls Conservative Agenda
By Barbara Miner
Bradley, "The Bell Curve," and School Choice
By Barbara Miner
Conservatives Push 'Parental Rights'
By Barbara Miner
Privately Funded Voucher Plans Proliferate
By Barbara Miner
Splits on the Right: Implications for Education
By Barbara Miner
Listing of Economic Conservative and Religious/Far Right Organizations
Progressive Groups that Monitor the Right Wing
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CONTENTS
Special Voucher Report -- Main Page
Free-Market Education
Seed Money for Conservatives
Distorting the Civil Rights Legacy
Vouchers: Special Ed Students Need Not Apply
The Conservative Connection
Privatizers' Trojan Horse
Tuition Tax Credits: Vouchers in Disguise
Voucher Decision Opens Pandora's Box
Vouchers: Turning Back the Clock
Vouchers Schools Cash In
(PDF version)
Payment "Surcharge" Gives $28 Million Extra
to Voucher Schools
Supreme Court Debates Vouchers
The Voucher Threat
High Court to Decide if Cleveland Voucher
Program Violates the Separation of Church and State
Church / State Separation Vital to Democracy
Vouchers and the False Promise of Academic Achievement
School Vouchers: A Threat to the Rights of Women
and Gays
False Choices: Vouchers, Public Schools, and
Our Children's Future
(PDF version)
Who's Bankrolling Vouchers?
Vouchers, Accoutability, and Money
With God On Their Side...
Teaching Religious Intolerance
Vouchers:Church / State Complexities
A Visit to a Religious Elementary School
Five
Years and Counting: A Closer Look at the Cleveland Voucher Program
Report Looks at Public and Private Schools
Vouchers and Public Accountability
The Hollow Promise of School Vouchers
The Market is Not the Answer
Lessons of Chile's Voucher Reform
The GI Bill Doesn't Vouch for Vouchers
Selling Out Our Schools: Vouchers, Markets,
and the Future of Public Education
Notable Quotes on Vouchers
Links to other important sites on vouchers.
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