The School Voucher Illusion: Exposing the Pretense of Equity

Sonst. Personen	Welner, Kevin (Hrsg.); Orfield, Gary (Hrsg.); Huerta, Luis A. (Hrsg.)
Titel	The School Voucher Illusion: Exposing the Pretense of Equity
Quelle	(2023), (320 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
ISBN	978-0-8077-6831-0
Schlagwörter	Educational Vouchers; Equal Education; Misconceptions; Private Schools; Educational Policy; Economically Disadvantaged; School Law; Access to Education; Student Rights; Politics of Education; State Policy; School Choice; Educational Discrimination; Advocacy; Privatization; Ideology; Indiana; District of Columbia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Educational voucher; Bildungsgutschein; Missverständnis; Private school; Privatschule; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Law concerning schools; Schulrecht; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Educational policy; Choice of school; Schulwahl; Sozialanwaltschaft; Privatisation; Privatisierung; Ideologie
Abstract	This authoritative book examines the long-standing campaign that resulted in today's school voucher policies. Advocates of private school vouchers promulgated a vision of service to low-income families, students of color, and other marginalized student populations. Vouchers were sold as a way to advance civil rights. But as voucher policies grew in size and became an element of Republican orthodoxy, they evolved into subsidies for a broad swath of advantaged families, with minimal antidiscrimination protections. The approach also transmuted into forms like education savings account programs and vouchers funded through tax-credited donations. In this book, scholars and national experts untangle this complex story to show how law and policy have aligned to dramatically alter the likely future of American schooling. They offer recommendations for modifying current policies with the goal of capturing more of the originally stated vision of voucher programs--equitable access to quality schooling, protection of all students' civil rights, and advancement of the wider societal goals of a democratic educational system. This book: (1) 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; (2) Sets the stage with a discussion of the history and legal dimensions of voucher battles, as well as the politics of policy change; (3) 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; (4) 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; and (5) Is 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. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01