By Jim Carl
This booklet unearths that, faraway from being the results of a groundswell of help for parental selection in American schooling, the origins of faculty vouchers are seated in id politics, non secular education, and academic entrepreneurship.
• Case reports describe, clarify, and evaluate the origins of college vouchers in 4 states: Louisiana, New Hampshire, Ohio, and Wisconsin
• Interviews with key contributors within the debates over university vouchers, together with Christopher Jencks and the past due Milton Friedman
• 8 tables and graphs aspect demographic and academic adjustments in New Orleans, Milwaukee, and Cleveland
• 4 maps convey the destinations of voucher faculties and courses in New Orleans, New Hampshire, Milwaukee, and Cleveland
• images of pupil and father or mother supporters of faculty vouchers
• A bibliography of fundamental and secondary resources in city historical past, background of schooling, and academic coverage studies
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