Many activists and writers have ascribed continuing racial
segregation in American schools to a failure of will. In this view,
forced transfers of students and other aggressive judicially
mandated policies would lead to greater equality in education if
only legislators and judges had the will to continue trying to make
school districts conform to plans for redesigning schools and even
American society. Controls and Choices: The Educational Marketplace
and the Failure of School Desegregation provides a detailed
examination of the nature of the educational marketplace, supported
by historical evidence, to argue that school desegregation failed
because it involved monopolistic efforts at redistributing
opportunities. These efforts were fundamentally at odds with the
self-interest of the families who had the greatest ability to make
choices in the educational marketplace. The authors use the concept
of the educational marketplace to explain how market-based attempts
at school reform, notably vouchers and charter schools, have grown
out of the failure of desegregation and remain hampered by lack of
recognition of how the schools really function as markets. Some
additional key features of this book include: *Gives a clear
understanding of how schools function as markets *Illustrates the
argument with histories of specific school districts *Links the
history of school desegregation to school vouchers and charter
schools *Includes easy to read and interpret graphs and figures
*Includes most up-to-date school population and census information
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