Vouchers—Additional Resources
Caire, Kaleem M. S. "The Truth About Vouchers." Educational Leadership, April 2002. Contrary to the claims of their opponents, voucher programs have proven that they offer a positive alternative to inadequate public schools. Inner-city African American families are tired of waiting—and they deserve a choice.
Gunn, Erik. “Voucher Schools Cash In.” Rethinking Schools, Spring 2002. A Rethinking Schools investigative report on how a little-know accounting provision allows Milwaukee voucher schools to reap extra millions of dollars.
McDonald, Timothy. "The False Promise of Vouchers." Educational Leadership, April 2002. School vouchers do not raise student achievement, create equal opportunities for disadvantaged students, or provide adequate accountability. Instead of investing scarce resources in voucher programs, we can and must improve struggling public schools.
Miner, Barbara. “Supreme Court Debates Vouchers.” Rethinking Schools, Spring 2002. Justices hear oral arguments in a case with broad implications not just for education but the separation of church and state and the very definition of public vesus private in a democratic society.
Powell Jackson, Bernice. "The Dirt on DC Vouchers." Witness for Justice #0133, October 13, 2003.
"Professor Suggests Ways To Improve Voucher Programs." Education Daily, Vol. 35, No. 70. April 15, 2002.
Sarason, Seymour (2002). Questions You Should Ask About Charter Schools and Vouchers. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.
Seuss Kennedy, S. “Privatizing Education The Politics of Vouchers.” Phi Delta Kappan, February 2001, Vol. 82, No. 6 p. 450-456. Sheila Kennedy contends all political issues are driven by a combination of ideology and political calculation. Ultimately, Americans will have to decide whether an embrace of vouchers will further or erode the public interest—a determination that depends on our collective understanding of where our public interest lies and of the role we see for government.
“School Finance Reform: A Case for Vouchers.” The Center for Civic Innovation at the Manhattan Institute; program area: Education Reform. Civic Report 9, October 1999. CCI has released a study which models the effect of publicly funded voucher programs on housing segregation and perceptions of school quality in New York City. This study shows that publicly funded vouchers would attract middle and upper-middle income families back to urban neighborhoods and improve parental perceptions of overall school quality.
Walbert, Herbert J. and Joseph L. Bast (2003). Education and Capitalism: How Overcoming Our Fear of Markets and Economics Can Improve America's Schools. Stanford: CA, Hoover Institution. By restoring parental school choice, the authors believe K-12 education will be revitalized through competition and privatization—through what economists call "consumer sovereignty." The authors devote much space to the question of what capitalism is and whether it can be trusted. Yes it can, they say, sharply defining economics and capitalism. The authors also explain the public choice theory for which George Mason University economist James Buchanan won the Nobel Prize.
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