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1 online resource (1 audio file (4hr., 32 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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MIT Press Essential Knowledge ; |
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Garcia, David R..
MIT Press Essential Knowledge. Spoken word ;
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MIT Press essential knowledge series.
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
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Read by Stephen Bel Davies. |
| Summary |
The issues and arguments surrounding school choice are sometimes hijacked to make political points about government control, democratic ideals, the public good, and privatization. In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, David Garcia avoids partisan arguments to offer an accessible, objective, and comprehensive guide to school choice. He first outlines the different types of school choice, including home schooling, private schools, freedom-of-choice plans, magnet schools, charter schools, vouchers, and education savings accounts. Two themes emerge as particularly resonant in the American school choice debate: the long history of school desegregation, and debates over the roles and responsibilities of government. Is education a public good, for the collective benefit of society, or a private good, to benefit the individual? Garcia describes and evaluates the major arguments supporting school choice policies: the elimination of government bureaucracies, the introduction of competition into education through market forces, the promotion of parental choice, and the casting of school choice as a civil right. He examines the research on the effects of school choice and summarizes general trends. Finally, he considers how school choice policies are likely to evolve. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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School choice -- United States.
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Education and state -- United States.
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Davies, Stephen Bel.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781469072975 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1469072971 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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MWT12344398 |
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