ISIL Freedom Network: United States > Books > School Choice
- Publicly Funded School Voucher Programs: A Policy Analysis
Source: Dissertation.com
Author: Nathan A. Benefield
Country: United States
- This research provides an analysis of voucher programs in Cleveland and Milwaukee and of political, legal, and programmatic constraints facing voucher programs. 2001, Paperback, 79 p. $19.95, or $9.00 in PDF download format.
- School Choice: Why We Need It -- How You Get It
Source: Amazon/Cato Institute
Author: David Harmer
Country: United States
- Concise guide to the ideas behind the movement toward school choice by the author of Proposition 174, the Parental Choice in Education Initiative on the California ballot in 1993. (Pb, 203p, 1994, Amazon price $12.95)
- The Market Approach to Education: An Analysis of America's First Voucher Program
Source: Amazon/Princeton University Press
Author: John F. Witte
Country: United States
- Political science professor and an independent evaluator of the Milwaukee voucher program lays out the pros and cons of vouchers. Says they can be a lifeline for poor families struggling with inferior inner-city schools, but does not offer wholehearted endorsement. (Hc, 232p., 2000, Amazon price $20.97)
- Learning from School Choice
Source: Amazon/Brookings Institute
Author: Paul E. Peterson and Bryan C. Hassel, eds.
Country: United States
- Examines evidence from early school choice programs, including voucher programs and charter schools, and looks at the larger implications of choice and competition in education. (Pb, 350p., 1998, Amazon price $15.56)
- Choice in Schooling: A Case for Tuition Vouchers
Source: Amazon/Loyola Univ. Press
Author: David W. Kirkpatrick, Chester E., Jr. Finn
Country: United States
- History of school choice proposal. The idea was first proposed by Adam Smith in The Wealth of Nations in 1776, and endorsed by Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, John Stuart Mill, Milton Friedman, and Daniel Patrick Moynihan. (Pb, 222p, 1999, Amazon price $14.95)
- Challenging Assumptions in Education
Source: Alternate Press/Amazon
Author: Wendy Priesnitz
Country: United States
- The founder of the Canadian Alliance of Homeschoolers says the current crisis in public education is evidence of a system that has outlived its usefulness. And the solution is to abandon the myth that learning must happen in schools. (Amazon price $12.95, paperback.)
- School Choice and Social Controversy: Politics, Policy and Law
Source: Amazon/Brookings Institute
Author: Stephen D. Sugarman, Frank R. Kemerer, eds.
Country: United States
- Legal and public policy scholars on issues critical to the successful drafting and implementation of school choice programs. (Pb., 400p., Amazon Price $16.96)
- Politics of School Choice
Source: Amazon/Rowman and Littlefield
Author: Hubert Morken, Jo Renee Formicola
Country: United States
- Contents include "The Federal Government, the Courts, and School Choice," "Elections and Legislation: Colorado and California," "Consensus Building: Michigan and Pennsylvania," "Entrepreneurial Strategies," "Scholars, Activists, and Advocacy." (Pb, 416p., 1999, Amazon price $24.95)
- How to Pick a Perfect Private School
Source: Amazon/Facts on File
Author: Harlow G. Unger
Country: United States
- Covers various categories of schools, and discusses the advantages private schools offer, how to finance private school education, how to determine a child's educational needs, the criteria for evaluating a school, how to determine the financial condition of a school.(Hc, 240p, 1998, Amazon price $22.95)
- EduCrisis! What To Do When Public Schools Fail
Source: James T. Evans
Country: United States
- How parents can escape government-run education: by relying on highly-motivated, high-performing parochial schools; joining the home-schooling explosion; finding the real reasons why private schools excel; and support in the growing voucher revolution. (Pb, 247p, 1999, Amazon price $16.95)
- A Choice for Our Children: Curing the Crisis in America's Schools
Source: Amazon/ICS Press
Author: Alan Bonsteel, Carlos A. Bonilla
Country: United States
- A discussion of and proposal to cure the school crisis "void of political safety nets." (Pb, 272p, 1997, Amazon price: $19.95)
- Politics, Markets and America's Schools
Source: Amazon/Brookings Institute
Author: by John E. Chubb, Terry M. Moe
Country: United States
- "The education book of the year...an icon-smashing book on school reform."--Wall StreetJournal. Published under the aegis of the liberal Brookings Institute, the book sparked a national debate by recommending a new system of public education built around parent-student choice and school completion. (Pb, 318., 1990, Amazon price $15.16.)
- Learning from School Choice
Source: Amazon/Brookings Institute
Author: Paul E. Peterson, Bryan C. Hassel, eds.
Country: United States
- Examines the evidence from early school choice programs in San Antonio, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, and Cleveland; and looks at the larger implications of choice and competition in education. (Pb, 350p., 1998, Amazon price $15.96.)
- Choosing Equality : School Choice, the Constitution, and Civil Society
Source: Amazon/Brookings Institute
Author: Joseph P. Viteritti
Country: United States
- A philosophical manual that, according to Heartland Institute, can "unite both left and right political constituencies" supporting school choice. "Education is the only profession where the providers' lack of confidence in their own product is used as a rationale for rejecting an alternative." (Pb, 352p., 1999, Amazon price $20.97.)
- Not Yet 'Free at Last': The Unfinished Business of the Civil Rights Movement: Our Battle for School Choice
Source: Amazon/Institute for Contemporary Studies
Author: Mikel Holt
Country: United States
- A chronicle of the struggle for school choice in Milwaukee that is also a plea for changes in the civil rights movement. (Pb, 314p., 1999, Amazon price $19.95.)
- EduCrisis! What To Do When Public Schools Fail
Source: Amazon/West Eagle
Author: James T. Evans
Country: United States
- Exposes the forces that control public education at the expense of students and taxpayers -- and shows how parents can escape government-run education. (Pb, 247p., 1999, Amazon price $16.95.)
- A Choice for Our Children: Curing the Crisis in America's Schools
Source: Amazon/ICS Press
Author: Alan Bonsteel, Carlos A. Bonilla, eds.
Country: United States
- Essays on school choice by the authors and Milton Friedman, John Coons, Stephen Sugarman, and James Horsman. (Pb, 272p., 1997, Amazon price $19.95.)
- The Complete Home Learning Source Book
Source: Amazon/Three Rivers
Author: Rebecca Rupp
Country: United States
- A comprehensive sourcebook of curricula. Covers basic academic subjects but also those off the beaten path of public school curricula, such as paleontology and meteorology. (Pb., 752p., 1998, Amazon price $23.96)
- The Unschooling Handbook: How to Use the Whole World as Your Child's Classroom
Source: Amazon/Prima
Author: Mary Griffith
Country: United States
- Unschooling, a by-product of the widespread homeschooling movement, is a unique approach to education -- one that uses children's natural curiosity to propel them into a world of learning. This guides reveals the secrets of unschooling success and addresses the misconceptions and criticisms. (Pb, 240p., 1998, Amazon price $11.96)
- And What About College?
Source: Amazon/Holt
Author: Cafi Cohen, Helen Hegener (Editor), Patrick Farenga (Editor)
Country: United States
- Subtitled "How Homeschooling Can Lead to Admissions to the Best Colleges & Universities." (Pb, 176p., 1997, Amazon price $18.95.)
- School Choices: True and False
Source: Independent Institute/Amazon.com
Author: John Merrifield
Country: United States
- Well-written monograph highlighting the failure of reform to change educational system structure, and the failure of school choice advocates to focus on real choice measures. (Pub. 9/02; paperback; 100 pp.; Amazon price $11.17)
- Ten Myths About School Choice
Source: NCPA
Author: Howard Fuller and Kaleem Caire
Country: United States
- The book, "Ten Myths About School Choice: Answering the Campaign Against School Vouchers," charges opponents of school choice with continuing to " ... use arguments based on myths, inaccuracies, half-truths, distortions and, in some instances, outright lies" to refute the proven success of tax-funded school voucher programs in Milwaukee, Cleveland and Florida. (12/01)
- Voucher Wars: Waging the Legal Battle over School Choice
Source: Cato Institute/Amazon.com
Author: Clint Bolick
Country: United States
- An engaging, honest look at Bolick's battle for school choice, with a personal feel that immerses the reader in Bolick's idealism in pursuit of his quest. (Pub. 3/03, trade paper, 219 pp., current Amazon price $9.60)
- The Future of School Choice
Source: Hoover
Author: Paul E. Peterson
Country: United States
- "School vouchers, tax credits, charter schools, the right to leave failing schools—all are concepts hardly known as recently as fifteen years ago. Though propounded as early as 1955 by Hoover scholar Milton Friedman, these ideas did not gain currency much later and now appear on the verge of pressing onward to become accepted options in American education." (11/03)
- The Future of School Choice
Source: Hoover Institution
Author: Paul E. Peterson
Country: United States
- In "The Future of School Choice", a group of distinguished authors examine the meaning of the recent Supreme Court decision that the school voucher program in Cleveland, Ohio, did not violate the Constitution's ban on the "establishment" of religion. They also consider the new political and policy context it has created. (11/03)
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