The Case Against School Choice: Politics, Markets and Fools

By Kevin B. Smith and Kenneth J. Meier

Book Overview

This discussion of public school choice considers school choice at all levels. It argues that choice programmes: promote inequity rather than improved quality; are expensive; require a large bureaucracy to administer; and do not necessarily lead to better education.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1563245205
• ISBN13: 9781563245206
• Release Date: May 1995
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

a strong statement against wacko right wingers

a strong statement against those that would ruin our schools. Read it to defend yourself against the right wing wackos.

Empirical rejection of school choice

Meier and Smith do a fine job in this book of rejecting the theory of school choice, by testing it against the actual outcome of choice and voucher proposals. They offer a variety of studies, local, national and international, that look at the effect of vouchers, and in doing so offer a solid case against them. It is about time someone put some research into this debate, which generally has relied upon theory rather than fact.