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Charters, Vouchers, and Public Educationreviewed by Carol Ascher - 2003 Title: Charters, Vouchers, and Public Education Author(s): Paul E. Peterson and David E. Campbell (Editors) Publisher: Brookings Institution, Washington D.C. ISBN: 081577026X, Pages: 320, Year: 2001 Search for book at Amazon.com Apparently an increasing number of Americans believe that
families should be able to choose their children’s elementary
and secondary schools. This belief in the benefits of public
school choice, charter schools, and vouchers is the result of both
an economic system that stresses competition and choice as
universal engines of improvement, and failing schools in low-income
neighborhoods of color that make choosing another school seem an
immediate solution for some families. Yet if some families rightly
view choice as a means of escape, the choice movement has been
propelled by promises of systemic school improvement, greater
desegregation and equity, and even better preparation for civic
life in a democracy among students.
Charters, Vouchers, and Public Education, edited by Paul
Peterson and David Campbell, is based on essays first presented at
a Program on Education Policy and Governance held at Harvard
University in March 2000. Shortly before then, Peterson
aroused controversy in the academic world with his methodologically
controversial analyses of voucher programs, and his positive spin
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