Advocates of market-based education reforms (including such
policies as choice, charters, vouchers, and outright privatization)
argue that they represent ready solutions to clearly defined
problems. Critics of market models, on the other hand, argue that
these reforms misperceive the purposes of public education and
threaten its democratic ethos. This book explores both the promises
and pitfalls of market forces -- their potential to improve the
quality of public education and their compatibility with its
republican justifications. Smith argues that although market models
of education are not without utilitarian merit, their potential to
alter the social-democratic purposes of education is seriously
underestimated. He supports this claim with a series of
sophisticated analyses of the key assumptions underlying these
models, and by examining the normative elements of theory and
methodology that can -- and often do -- skew empirical policy
analysis toward market preferences. He concludes that market
reforms are not just a ready means to effectively address the
problems of public schooling but rather represent a clear attempt
to ideologically redefine its ends.
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