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Breaking the Mold: Charter Schools, Contract Schools, and Voucher Plans by Frederick M. Hess - 2003Choice-based and contractual reforms offer a radical approach to addressing
the problems that plague school governance. Proponents of
choice argue that the traditional design of state-controlled public education
tends to produce ineffective, unresponsive, and inequitable schools,
and that democratic control and public bureaucracy have given rise to
interest group dominance, institutional rigidity, insensitivity to the preferences
of families, and weak systems of managerial control (Chubb and
Moe, 1990). By introducing market mechanisms into education, choicebased
reforms are designed to strike at the root of the problem by enhancing
the power of individual consumers (families) at the expense of
organized interests and public employees.  View Full Text in PDF Format| This article originally appeared as NSSE Yearbook Vol 102. No. 1. |
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- Introduction: Public Education's Crisis of Performance and Legitmacy: Introduction and Overview of the Yearbook
- Rethinking the Finance System for Improved Student Achievement
- What's Wrong with Public Education Governance in Big Cities . . . And How Should It Be Fixed?
- Vouchers, the Supreme Court, and the Next Political Rounds
- "Ravening Tigers" Under Siege: Teacher Union Legitimacy and Institutional Turmoil
- Educational Bankruptcy, Takeovers, and Reconstitution of Failing Schools
- Getting to Scale: Ideas, Opportunities, and Resources in the Early Diffusion of the Charter Management Organization, 1999–2006
- Does the Organization of Instruction Differ in Charter Schools? Ability Grouping and Students' Mathematics Gains
- Charter Schools at the Crossroads: Predicaments, Paradoxes, and Possibilities
- Work Hard, Be Hard: Journeys Through “No Excuses” Teaching
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- Frederick Hess
American Enterprise Institute
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FREDERICK M. HESS is a Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and
author, most recently, of Revolution at the Margins: The Impact of Competition on Urban
School Systems.
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