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List of contents
Introduction by Simon Hakim, Paul Seidenstat, and Gary Bowman
ConceptsAn Economic View of the Effectiveness of Public and Private Schools by David Beers and Jerry Ellig
Why Educational Choice: The Florida Experience by Tom Feeney
Private School Choice: An Ineffective Path to Educational Reform by Albert Shanker and Bella Rosenberg
Public Schools by Contract: An Alternative to Privatization by Paul Hill
Alternative PlansThree Privatization Models for Public Schools by Tom Kean
Redesigning the Financing of American Education to Raise Productivity: The Case for a Just Voucher by Peter Cookson
A "GI Bill" for Educating All Children by Pierre duPont
Blending the Neighborhood School Tradition with "Choice Within Schools" by Ernest Boyer
Privatizing Higher Education by Kevin Sontheimer
ExperiencesThe Evaluation of the New Hampshire Plan: An Early Voucher System by John Menge
The Milwaukee Choice Program by Thomas Hetland
A Public-Private Partnership: South Pointe Elementary School of Dade County, Florida by Thomas Peeler and Patricia Parham
Making Choice an Option for All Parents, East Harlem, New York by William Ubinas
Public Choice in Minnesota by Michael Rubenstein and Nancy Adelman
Bibliography
Index
About the author
SIMON HAKIM is Professor of Economics at Temple University in Philadelphia.
PAUL SEIDENSTAT is Associate Professor of Economics at Temple University in Philadelphia.
GARY W. BOWMAN is Associate Professor of Economics at Temple University in Philadelphia.
Together all three have edited two other books on privatization--
Privatizing Correctional Institutions (1993) and
Privatizing the United States Justice System (1992).
