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"The authors analyze what parents value in education, how much they know about schools, how well they can match what they say they want in schools with what their children get, how satisfied they are with their children's schools, and how their involvement in the schools is affected by the opportunity to choose. They discover, most notably, that low-income parents value education as much as, if not more than, high-income parents, but do not have access...

"The goal of the authors of The School Choice Hoax is to expose the misleading hyperbole that has been driving the school choice movement and to show how charter schools can become more effective and useful to public school districts. This book will be helpful to parents who are faced with the prospect of making choice work better."--Jacket.

Advocating the near complete privatization of schools, Merrifield (economics, U. of Texas at San Antonio) reserves most criticism for the vouchers movement. He argues that advocates for vouchers have weakened their arguments to the point where the complete unleashing of "market forces" will not be achieved, thus failing to reach true competition. Distributed by the Independent Publishers Group. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland,...

Stern explores the growing demand for school choice among poor families in the inner city. Filled with timely insights and human drama, he vividly describes how even cash-starved schools can overcome educational obstacles.

"From the former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education, "whistleblower extraordinaire" (The Wall Street Journal), one of the foremost authorities on education and the history of education in the United States, author of the best-selling The Death and Life of the Great American School System; The Language Police ("Impassioned ... Fiercely argued ... Every bit as alarming as it is illuminating"--The New York Times); and the now-classic Great School...

Dwyer makes the case that state funding of religious and other private schools is not only permissible, but mandatory, as a moral and constitutional right of the children already in private schools. In Vouchers within reason, he also demonstrates the necessity of attaching to that funding robust standards for the content and nature of instruction and for treatment of students. These are just the sort of regulatory strings that most current supporters...

Exposes the modern barriers that deprive inner-city children of a good education and calls for increased school choice as the most effective way to achieve the goals of Brown v. Board. From publisher description.