School Choice Tradeoffs

Informationen zum Autor R. Kenneth Godwin is Marshall Rausch Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. Frank Kemerer is Regents Professor-Emeritus of Education Law and Administration at the University of North Texas and founder of the Texas School Administrators Legal Digest. He lives in San Diego, California. Klappentext Educational policy in a democracy goes beyond teaching literacy and numeracy. It also supports teaching moral reasoning, political tolerance, respect for diversity, and citizenship. Education policy should encourage liberty and equality of opportunity, hold educational institutions accountable, and be efficient. School Choice Tradeoffs examines the tradeoffs among these goals when government affords parents the means to select the schools their children attend.Godwin and Kemerer compare current policy that uses family residence to assign students to schools with alternative policies that range from expanding public choice options to school vouchers. They identify the benefits and costs of each policy approach through a review of past empirical literature, the presentation of new empirical work, and legal and philosophic analysis.The authors offer a balanced perspective that goes beyond rhetoric and ideology to offer policymakers and the public insight into the complex tradeoffs that are inherent in the design and implementation of school choice policies. While all policies create winners and losers, the key questions concern who these individuals are and how much they gain or lose. By placing school choice within a broader context, this book will stimulate reflective thought in all readers. Zusammenfassung An overview of the issues in school choice. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface 1. School Choice Options and Issues: An Overview Why Change Current Policies? Why Use School Choice to Promote Equity? Types of School Choice Major Issues in the Choice Debate Educational Outcomes Liberal Democratic Theory and Education Policy Parental Rights and Equality of Opportunity The Constitutionality of Vouchers and Tax Credits The Economics of Choice Accountability versus Autonomy Designing a Voucher Program That Promotes Equity 2. The Outcomes of School Choice Policies Why Proponents Expect Choice to Increase Academic Outcomes The Effects of Competition Increased Parental Involvement and Better Matching of Students and Schools Democratic Control and Bureaucratic Inefficiencies The Particular Problems Facing Inner-City Schools Why Opponents Expect Choice to Lower Academic Outcomes Empirical Hypotheses Concerning the Impacts of Choice School Choice and Segregation How Do Parents Choose? Policy Implications Do Private Schools Teach Public Values? The Effects of Choice on Teachers and Principals The Effects of Choice on Parents The Effects of Choice on Academic Outcomes The Effects of Competition Comparing Public and Private Schools High School and Beyond Results from Other National Databases Evaluations of Existing Choice Programs Privately Funded Voucher Experiments The Effects of Choice on Children Who Remain Behind Summary and Conclusions 3. Political Theory and School Choice (coauthor: Richard Ruderman) Liberal Democracy Liberal Arguments That Education Is in the Private Sphere Liberal Arguments for Including Education in the Public Sphere John Dewey and Progressive Liberalism Sharing Educational Responsibility: The Ideas of Amy Gutmann Diversity or Autonomy Comprehensive Liberalism versus Political Liberalism School Choice and Communitarian Thought Discussion Conclusion 4. Parent Rights, School Choice, and Equality of Opportunity (coauthor: Jennifer L. Kemerer) Parent Rights in Education How Fundamental Are Parent Rights? Coupling Parent Rights with Free Exercise of Religion Contemporary Developments Racial and Economic Segregation in Traditional Public Schools ...

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By R. Kenneth Godwin and Frank R. Kemerer

Klappentext

Educational policy in a democracy goes beyond teaching literacy and numeracy. It also supports teaching moral reasoning, political tolerance, respect for diversity, and citizenship. Education policy should encourage liberty and equality of opportunity, hold educational institutions accountable, and be efficient. School Choice Tradeoffs examines the tradeoffs among these goals when government affords parents the means to select the schools their children attend. Godwin and Kemerer compare current policy that uses family residence to assign students to schools with alternative policies that range from expanding public choice options to school vouchers. They identify the benefits and costs of each policy approach through a review of past empirical literature, the presentation of new empirical work, and legal and philosophic analysis. The authors offer a balanced perspective that goes beyond rhetoric and ideology to offer policymakers and the public insight into the complex tradeoffs that are inherent in the design and implementation of school choice policies. While all policies create winners and losers, the key questions concern who these individuals are and how much they gain or lose. By placing school choice within a broader context, this book will stimulate reflective thought in all readers.

Zusammenfassung
An overview of the issues in school choice.

Inhalt

Preface 1. School Choice Options and Issues: An Overview Why Change Current Policies? Why Use School Choice to Promote Equity? Types of School Choice Major Issues in the Choice Debate

• Educational Outcomes
• Liberal Democratic Theory and Education Policy
• Parental Rights and Equality of Opportunity
• The Constitutionality of Vouchers and Tax Credits
• The Economics of Choice

• Accountability versus Autonomy Designing a Voucher Program That Promotes Equity 2. The Outcomes of School Choice Policies Why Proponents Expect Choice to Increase Academic Outcomes

• The Effects of Competition
• Increased Parental Involvement and Better Matching of Students and Schools
• Democratic Control and Bureaucratic Inefficiencies

• The Particular Problems Facing Inner-City Schools Why Opponents Expect Choice to Lower Academic Outcomes Empirical Hypotheses Concerning the Impacts of Choice School Choice and Segregation

• How Do Parents Choose?

• Policy Implications Do Private Schools Teach Public Values? The Effects of Choice on Teachers and Principals The Effects of Choice on Parents The Effects of Choice on Academic Outcomes The Effects of Competition Comparing Public and Private Schools

• High School and Beyond

• Results from Other National Databases Evaluations of Existing Choice Programs

• Privately Funded Voucher Experiments The Effects of Choice on Children Who Remain Behind Summary and Conclusions 3. Political Theory and School Choice (coauthor: Richard Ruderman) Liberal Democracy Liberal Arguments That Education Is in the Private Sphere Liberal Arguments for Including Education in the Public Sphere

• John Dewey and Progressive Liberalism

• Sharing Educational Responsibility: The Ideas of Amy Gutmann Diversity or Autonomy

• Comprehensive Liberalism versus Political Liberalism School Choice and Communitarian Thought Discussion Conclusion 4. Parent Rights, School Choice, and Equality of Opportunity (coauthor: Jennifer L. Kemerer) Parent Rights in Education

• How Fundamental Are Parent Rights?
• Coupling Parent Rights with Free Exercise of Religion

• Contemporary Developments Racial and Economic Segregation in Traditional Public Schools

• Racial Segregation
• Economic Segregation

• Continuing Inequalities in Public Schools Racial and Economic Inequalities in Choice Schools

• Choice Schools and Ethnic Sorting
• Racial Balance Measures Achieving Diversity without Unconstitutional Discrimination against Parents…