School Vouchers and Privatization: A Reference Handbook

By Danny K. Weil

Explore this controversial approach to education, its practical applications, successes, and failures in a straightforward guide that covers every facet of the issue, from for-profit schools to outsourcing of school management to vouchers.

The book covers everything from school vouchers to little-known market-based educational reforms like for-profit management of public schools, commercialism in the classroom, philanthropic tuition sponsorships, faith-based charities, educational tax credits, corporate curriculum, and advertising as well as exclusive agreements between companies and schools. It includes case studies of two well-established voucher systems: the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program and the private national voucher policy in Chile, a program started in l973. The book also includes a chronology, directories, bibliographies, and other reference content.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1576073467
• ISBN13: 9781576073469
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: ABC-CLIO
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.6" x 9.5"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher