References
- Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka , 347, U.S. 483 ( 1954 ) was the legal case that served as the foundation for years of court cases on the issue of race and school attendance.
- Serrano v. Priest , 5 Cal. 3d 584, 615 ( 1971 ) is probably the best known case in this area to serve as the basis for later cases.
- E.g., National Commission on Excellence in Education , A Nation at Risk (Washington , D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1983 ).
- There are a variety of writings on the history of the U.S. educational system. Several examples are Richard Pratte , The Public School Movement: A Critical Study ( New York : David McKay , 1973 ); H. Warren Button and Eugene F. Provenzo Jr., A History of Education and Culture in America (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1983); and Stanley K. Schultz, The Culture Factory: Boston Public Schools 1789–1860 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1973).
- A case in point is The Carnegie Forum on Education and the Economy , Task Force on Teaching as a Profession, A Nation Prepared: Teachers for the Twenty-First Century ( New York : Carnegie Corporation , 1986 ) that sets out one possible agenda for improving education by changing the teaching and training of teachers.
- James N. Wetzel , Access to Solar Energy: Who Owns the Sun ( Richmond , Virginia : Real Estate and the Urban Land Development Program, Virginia Commonwealth University , 1981 ; Research Monograph No. 7).
- Milton Friedam is usually regarded as the originator of the voucher concept in his Capitalism and Freedom ( Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1962 ). A recent two-part article that provides a substantial overview of vouchers, tax credits, equalization proposals, etc., is John L. Puckett, “Education Vouchers: Rhetoric and Reality,” The Educational Forum 47 (Summer 1983): 467–492; and 48 (Fall 1983): 7–26.
- Thomas J. Peters and Robert M. Waterman , Jr. , In Search of Excellence ( New York , Harper and Row , 1982 ).
- Many of the reports concerning the quality of high school education implicitly assume that quality is to be defined in terms of high-quality, college-oriented programs. Two broader discussions of the meaning of excellence are contained in John Gardner, Excellence: Can We Be Equal and Excellent Too ( New York : Harper and Row , 1961 ), and Thomas R. McDaniel, “Inquiries into Excellence: A Reexamination of a Familiar Concept,” The Educational Forum 49 (Summer 1985): 389–396.
- E.g., Albert Reis , “ An Essay on Youth Joblessness ,” Journal of Economic Literature 24 ( June 1986 ): 613 – 628 discusses the reasons behind, and the future job and income consequences of, high unemployment levels of young people.