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Contributor(s): Garcia, David R. (Author)

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ISBN: 0262535904     ISBN-13: 9780262535908
Publisher: MIT Press
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: September 2018
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BISAC Categories:
- Education | Finance
- Education | Educational Policy & Reform - Federal Legislation
- Education | Home Schooling
Dewey: 379.111
LCCN: 2018010195
Age Level: 18-UP
Grade Level: 13-UP
Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.1" W x 7" L (0.40 lbs) 216 pages
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product
 
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An accessible guide to the major issues and arguments surrounding school choice.

The issues and arguments surrounding school choice are sometimes hijacked to make political points about government control, democratic ideals, the public good, and privatization. In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, David Garcia avoids partisan arguments to offer an accessible, objective, and comprehensive guide to school choice. He first outlines the different types of school choice, including home schooling, private schools, freedom-of-choice plans, magnet schools, charter schools, vouchers, and education savings accounts. Two themes emerge as particularly resonant in the American school choice debate: the long history of school desegregation, and debates over the roles and responsibilities of government. Is education a public good, for the collective benefit of society, or a private good, to benefit the individual?

Garcia describes and evaluates the major arguments supporting school choice policies: the elimination of government bureaucracies, the introduction of competition into education through market forces, the promotion of parental choice, and the casting of school choice as a civil right. He examines the research on the effects of school choice and summarizes general trends. Finally, he considers how school choice policies are likely to evolve. He notes that the Trump administration's Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, is an advocate for school choice, and that the administration's budget allocations signal a deliberate shift from long-standing federal policies that provide supplemental funding for low-income schools. Instead, new policies provide incentives for low-income families to leave public schools altogether through choice. This book will be an essential resource for participating in the debates that are sure to follow.


Contributor Bio(s): Garcia, David R.: - David R. Garcia is Associate Professor at the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona Sate University.
 
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