Vouchers, Markets, and The Future of Public Education
Edited by Robert Lowe and Barbara Miner
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"Selling Out Our Schools" is divided into three main sections (click on the section heading to go there):
- Vouchers and Market Ideology -- Addresses vouchers as well as broader concerns about marketplace approaches to education reform.
- Public Choice and Charters -- -- Discusses the potential, both good and bad, of these two reform movements.
- The Conservative Agenda -- -- Discusses school reform issues within the context of the conservative movement's political priorities.
- INTRODUCTION: Why We Are Publishing "Selling Out Our Schools"
- By the Editors of Rethinking Schools
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- 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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- 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>
- 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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- 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