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.
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