Contributions

  • Lubienski, Sarah Theule, author - Contributor

Publication

2014 - The University of Chicago Press, Illinois

Language

English

Word Count

69,000 words, Guess

Page Count

276 pages

Identifiers

and 1 more

Classifications

  • DDC371.010973
  • LCCLB1556.5 .L93 2014

Description

Nearly the whole of America's partisan politics centers on a single question: Can markets solve our social problems? And for years this question has played out ferociously in the debates about how we should educate our children. From the growth of vouchers and charter schools to the implementation of No Child Left Behind, policy makers have increasingly turned to market-based models to help improve our schools, believing that private institutions--because they are competitively driven--are better than public ones. With The Public School Advantage, Christopher A. and Sarah Theule Lubienski offer powerful evidence to undercut this belief, showing that public schools in fact out-perform private ones.

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