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The School Voucher Illusion: Exposing the Pretense of Equity
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The School Voucher Illusion: Exposing the Pretense of Equity
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Overview
Book Features:
- Shows how a fast-growing policy is transforming education in the United States in ways that are very different from how that policy was sold to the public.
- Sets the stage with a discussion of the history and legal dimensions of voucher battles, as well as the politics of policy change.
- Examines the basic structure of contemporary private schooling, the Southern history of vouchers, and the key federal court decisions that have opened the door to an explosion of state legislation.
- Offers profiles of voucher policies in two states that have made the largest efforts to support vouchers, as well as the only nationally funded program in the nation’s capital.
- Edited by three scholars with extensive experience in the study of school choice, with chapters by national experts who have produced seminal work in the field.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780807768310 |
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Publisher: | Teachers College Press |
Publication date: | 04/28/2023 |
Pages: | 320 |
Product dimensions: | 6.38(w) x 9.25(h) x (d) |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Contents (Tentative)1. Introduction: Voucher Expansion and the Abandonment of Equity Kevin G. Welner, Gary Orfield, and Luis A. Huerta
2. The Segregationist Origins and Legacy of Today’s Private School Vouchers Steve Suitts
3. Private School Vouchers: Legal Challenges and Civil Rights Protections Kevin G. Welner and Preston C. Green
4. Voucher Expansion and the Threat to Students’ Educational and Civil Rights Derek W. Black
5. Vouchers as a Mechanism for State-Sanctioned Private Discrimination Julie F. Mead and Suzanne E. Eckes
6. Evolving Voucher Policies: Broadening Eligibility Through Rules & Schools Luis A. Huerta and Steven Koutsavlis
7. Bait and Switch: How Voucher Advocates Shift Policy Objectives Christopher Lubienski, T. Jameson Brewer, and Joel R. Malin
8. Educational Privatization in Congress From Reagan to Biden: An Ideology Unfulfilled Elizabeth H. DeBray and Ann E. Blankenship-Knox
9. School Vouchers in Indiana: Policy Shifts and Their Implications for Economically Disadvantaged Families and Students of Color Mark Berends, R. Joseph Waddington, and Megan Austin
10. A Voucher by Any Other Name: Empowerment Scholarship Accounts and the Future of School Choice David R. Garcia and Makayla Steele
11. Washington, D.C. Voucher Program: Civil Rights Implications Mary Levy
12. Private Sector Schools: Limited Scope & Stratification Jongyeon Ee, Gary Orfield, and Jennifer Teitell
13. Conclusion: Can Vouchers Be Reshaped to Accomplish Their Initial Rhetorical Goals? Kevin G. Welner, Gary Orfield, and Luis A. Huerta
Endnotes
Index
About the Editors and Authors
What People are Saying About This
“Walking your child to the neighborhood school? It’s become a dusty relic of the past—buried by radical reforms like awarding vouchers to parents, moving taxpayer dollars to private and religious schools. But which kids and families benefit when civic leaders liberalize parental choice and nurture differing forms of schooling? Do vouchers lift school quality and pull diverse children under one roof? This engaging volume—which clarifies the legal and policy logic of vouchers, then reveals empirical facts on the ground inside schools—may upset you. These expert authors uncover disturbing evidence on the politics and unequal results harming children and families, while pointing to ways that private vouchers, one day, could serve a broader common good.”—Bruce Fuller, professor of education and public policy, University of California, Berkeley; author, When Schools Work
“For most of their history vouchers have been a fringe idea, favored only by free market ideologues willing to overlook the idea’s segregationist roots. Recently, however, vouchers have come roaring back to life, springing up in forms like tax-credit scholarships and ‘education savings accounts.’ Having carefully laid the legal and political groundwork, supporters have made significant inroads among conservative state legislatures. And having repackaged vouchers as a means for advancing racial equity and personal freedom, they have also begun to swing public opinion. Yet scratch beneath the surface and vouchers are the same treacherous ploy they always were. As this volume skillfully shows, they threaten particular harm to the least advantaged, for whom rights in an inclusive democracy will be replaced with ‘options’ in a market.”—Jack Schneider, associate professor of education, UMass Lowell