LEADER 04736nam 22007094a 450 001 9910454761103321 005 20210827025326.0 010 $a1-282-75387-8 010 $a9786612753879 010 $a1-4008-2331-5 010 $a1-4008-1387-5 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400823314 035 $a(CKB)111056486499248 035 $a(EBL)581670 035 $a(OCoLC)700688717 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000439385 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11312612 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000439385 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10461140 035 $a(PQKB)10570530 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC581670 035 $a(OCoLC)51321336 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36097 035 $a(DE-B1597)446224 035 $a(OCoLC)979628862 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400823314 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL581670 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10035855 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL275387 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056486499248 100 $a19990329d2000 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe market approach to education$b[electronic resource] $ean analysis of America's first voucher program /$fJohn F. Witte 205 $aCore Textbook 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$dc2000 215 $a1 online resource (238 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-691-08983-3 311 0 $a0-691-00944-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [211]-218) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tList of Figures --$tList of Tables --$tPreface --$tAcknowledgments --$t1. Introduction --$t2. The Enduring Controversy over Educational Choice --$t3. Educational Choice and the Milwaukee Voucher Program --$t4. Who Participates in Choice Programs? --$t5. The Milwaukee Choice Schools --$t6. Outcomes of the Milwaukee Voucher Program --$t7. The Politics of Vouchers --$t8. Conclusions and Implications --$tReferences --$tIndex 330 $aMilwaukee, one of the nation's most segregated metropolitan areas, implemented in 1990 a school choice program aimed at improving the education of inner-city children by enabling them to attend a selection of private schools. The results of this experiment, however, have been overshadowed by the explosion of emotional debate it provoked nationwide. In this book, John Witte provides a broad yet detailed framework for understanding the Milwaukee experiment and its implications for the market approach to American education. In a society supposedly devoted to equality of opportunity, the concept of school choice or voucher programs raises deep issues about liberty versus equality, government versus market, and about our commitment to free and universal education. Witte brings a balanced perspective to the picture by demonstrating why it is wrongheaded to be pro- or anti-school choice in the abstract. He explains why the voucher program seems to be working in the specific case of Milwaukee, but warns that such programs would not necessarily promote equal education--and most likely harm the poor--if applied universally, across the socioeconomic spectrum. The book begins with a theoretical discussion of the provision of education in America. It goes on to situate the issue of school choice historically and politically, to describe the program and private schools in Milwaukee, and to provide statistical analyses of the outcomes for children and their parents in the experiment. Witte concludes with some persuasive arguments about the importance of specifying the structural details of any choice program and with a call supporting vouchers for poor inner-city children, but not a universal program for all private schools. Voucher programs continue to be the most controversial approach to educational reform. The Market Approach to Education provides a thorough review of where the choice debate stands through 1998. It not only includes the "Milwaukee story" but also provides an analysis of the role, history, and politics of court decisions in this most important First Amendment area. 606 $aEducational vouchers$zWisconsin$zMilwaukee$vCase studies 606 $aSchool choice$zWisconsin$zMilwaukee$vCase studies 606 $aEducation, Urban$zWisconsin$zMilwaukee$vCase studies 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEducational vouchers 615 0$aSchool choice 615 0$aEducation, Urban 676 $a379.1/11 700 $aWitte$b John F$01026354 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910454761103321 996 $aThe market approach to education$92441228 997 $aUNINA