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The market approach to education : an analysis of America's first voucher program
- Title
- The market approach to education : an analysis of America's first voucher program / John F. Witte.
- Author
- Witte, John F.
- Publication
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2000.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | LB2828.85.W6 W58 2000 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xiv, 221 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Milwaukee, one of the nation's most segregated metropolitan areas, implemented in 1990 a school choice program aimed at improving the education of inner-city children by enabling them to attend a selection of private schools. In this book, John Witte provides a broad yet detailed framework for understanding the Milwaukee experiment and its implications for the market approach to American education. Witte brings a balanced perspective to the picture by demonstrating why it is wrong-headed to be pro- or anti-school choice in the abstract. He explains why the voucher program seems to be working in the specific case of Milwaukee, but warns that such programs would not necessarily promote equal education - and most likely harm the poor - if applied universally, across the socioeconomic spectrum."--Jacket.
- Subject
- Educational vouchers > Wisconsin > Milwaukee > Case studies
- School choice > Wisconsin > Milwaukee > Case studies
- Education, Urban > Wisconsin > Milwaukee > Case studies
- 81.14 economics of education
- Education, Urban
- Educational vouchers
- School choice
- Schulpolitik
- Schulwahl
- Marktregulatie
- Onderwijs
- Schoolkeuze
- Education, Urban > Wisconsin > Milwaukee > Case studies
- Educational vouchers > Wisconsin > Milwaukee > Case studies
- School choice > Wisconsin > Milwaukee > Case studies
- Wisconsin > Milwaukee
- Milwaukee, Wis
- Genre/Form
- Case studies
- Case studies.
- Études de cas.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-218).
- Contents
- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Enduring Controversy over Educational Choice -- 3. Educational Choice and the Milwaukee Voucher Program -- App. to Ch. 3. Historical MPS Achievement Test Data -- 4. Who Participates in Choice Programs? -- 5. The Milwaukee Choice Schools -- 6. Outcomes of the Milwaukee Voucher Program -- App. to Ch. 6. Modeling Selection Bias -- 7. The Politics of Vouchers -- 8. Implications and Conclusions.
- ISBN
- 0691009449
- 9780691009445
- 0691089833
- 9780691089836
- LCCN
- 99028151
- OCLC
- ocm41131804
- 41131804
- SCSB-868539
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library