References
- Gallup , Alec M. , ' The 22nd Annual Gallup Poll of the Public's Attitudes toward the Public Schools ,” Phi Delta Kappan 72 ( September 1990 ): 42 – 54
- One of the earliest and best known of these was, National Commission on Excellence in Education , A Nation at Risk ( Washington , D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office , 1983 ).
- Joe Nathan , ed., Public Schools by Choice ( St. Paul Institute for Learning and Teaching , 1989 ); Mary Anne Raywid, “The Case for Public Schools of Choice,” Phi Delta Kappan Fastback, No. 283 (Bloomington, Indiana: Phi Delta Kappa Educational Foundation, 1989), pp. 7–45.
- E.g., Paul E. Heckman (panel chair) et al., Public Schools of Choice ( Alexandria , Virginia : Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development , 1990 ).
- Mary Anne Raywid , “The Mounting Case for Schools of Choice,” in Public Schools by Choice , ed. Joe Nathan ( St. Paul : Institute for Learning and Teaching , 1989 ), pp. 13 – 40 Quoted from p. 14 .
- John L. Puckett , “Educational Vouchers: Rhetoric and Reality, Part 2” The Educational Forum 48 ( Fall 1983 ): 7 – 26
- Pat Butler , “ Shortage Shortchanging Some S.C. Students ,” The State , Oct. 6, 1990 , p. 7-A .
- Ibid.
- For an excellent article on the politics of public education, see, Thomas Timar , “The Politics of School Restructuring,” Phi Delta Kappan 71 ( December 1989 ): 265 – 275
- John E. Chubb and Terry M. Moe , Politics, Markets, and America's Schools ( Washington , D.C. : Brookings Institution , 1990 ), p. 208 .
- Charles Glenn , “Putting Choice in Place,” in Public Schools by Choice , ed. Joe Nathan ( St. Paul : Institute for Learning and Teaching , 1989 ), pp. 149 – 164
- Ibid. , p. 155 .
- Ibid. , p. 153 .
- Ibid. , p. 158 .
- Joe Nathan “ Helping All Children, Empowering All Educators: Another View of School Choice ,” Phi Delta Kappan 71 ( December 1989 ): 304 – 307 Quoted from p. 306.
- Susan Uchitelle , “What it Really Takes to Make School Choice Work,” Phi Delta Kappan 71 ( December 1989 ): 301 – 303 Quoted from p. 302.
- Evans Clinchy , “Public School Choice: Absolutely Necessary but Not Wholly Sufficient,” Phi Delta Kappan 71 ( December 1989 ): 289 – 294 Quoted from p. 293.
- Myron Lieberman , Privatization and Educational Choice ( New York : St. Martin's Press , 1989 ), pp. 234 – 240
- To gain some understanding of what school boards are up against with teacher unions, read a newpaper reporter's account of her tangle with the Los Angeles's Teachers Union. Debra J. Saunders , “Teachers on the White Line,” Wall Street Journal , October 23, 1990 , p. A-18.
- For an excellent critical analysis of the education voucher plan, see, Barbara S. Davis , “Education Vouchers: Boom or Blunder?” The Educational Forum 47 ( Winter 1983 ): 161 – 173 John L. Puckett, “Educational Vouchers: Rhetoric and Reality, Part 1,” Educational Forum 47 (Summer 1983): 467–492, and “Educational Vouchers: Rhetoric and Reality, Part 2.”
- John H. Fund , “ Milwaukee's Schools Open — To Competition ,” Wall Street Journal , September 4, 1990 , p. A-14 . Presently, there is a legal battle over the constitutionality of the program.
- Chubb and Moe , Politics, Markets, and America's Schools , pp. 215 – 229
- Milton Friedman , Capitalism and Freedom ( Chicago : The University of Chicago Press , 1962 ), pp. 85 – 107 Milton Friedman and Rose Friedman, Free to Choose (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980), pp. 150–188.
- For an extensive examination of this choice option, see, James R. Rinehart and Jackson F. Lee , Choice and the Dynamics of American Schools ( New York : Praeger , 1991 ).
- An excellent book detailing these inefficiencies and pointing out specific courses of action toward privatization is Randall Fitzgerald , When Government Goes Private ( New York : Universe Books , 1988 ). Also, see, E. S. Savas, Privatizing the Public Sector (Chatham, New Jersey: Chatham House Publishers, 1982).