Rethinking School Choice: Limits of the Market Metaphor

Jeffrey R. Henig

Published by Princeton University Press 1995

Rethinking School Choice

Limits of the Market Metaphor

Jeffrey R. Henig

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400821037

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About this book

Advocates of school vouchers and other choice proposals couch their arguments in the fashionable language of economic theory. Choice initiatives at all levels of government have succeeded, it is claimed, because they shift responsibility for education reform from government to market forces. This timely book disputes the appropriateness of the market metaphor as a guide to education policy.

Author / Editor information

Jeffrey R. Henig is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for Washington Area Studies at George Washington University. His other books include Public Policy and Federalism: Issues in State and Local Politics.

Reviews

This book makes a forceful, tough-minded contribution to the raging debate over school choice. But it goes well beyond this debate, and refocuses the way we look at education.---John F. Witte, University of Wisconsin-Madison, co-editor of, Choice and Control in American Education

"This book makes a forceful, tough-minded contribution to the raging debate over school choice. But it goes well beyond this debate, and refocuses the way we look at education."—John F. Witte,University of Wisconsin-Madison

For anyone interested in a full treatment of [choice], Henig's Rethinking School Choice is an absolute must. Exhaustive, comprehensive, and balanced, Henig's book sets the standard, for style as well as context, against which others will be measured.---Gerald Bracey, The Washington Post

A tightly argued effort to reduce the crisis mentality about American education and suggest that shopping for schools is not the same as shopping for VCRs. . . . An intricate but fair-minded discussion that ultimately--while for choice--comes down against market-based vouchers.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Figures and Tables Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xi
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xiii
PART ONE: DEFINING THE PROBLEM
CHAPTER ONE. The Call for Choice and Radical Reform Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
CHAPTER TWO. The Political Meaning of “Crisis” Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	26
PART TWO: EVOLUTION OF AN IDEA
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
CHAPTER THREE. Application of the Market Model Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
CHAPTER FOUR. Repackaging Choice Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	78
PART THREE: REINTERPRETING THE HISTORY OF SCHOOL CHOICE
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
CHAPTER FIVE. Evolving Practice: Problematic Lessons from History Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
CHAPTER SIX. Uses of Evidence: The Empirical Case that “Choice Works” Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
CHAPTER SEVEN. Reinterpreting the Lessons of Experience Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
PART FOUR: CHOOSING OUR FUTURE
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
CHAPTER EIGHT. How Market-Based Plans Will Fail Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	174
CHAPTER NINE. Putting Educational Choice in Its Place Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	196
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267

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