Jim Carl

Freedom of Choice (eBook, PDF)

Vouchers in American Education

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book reveals that, far from being the result of a groundswell of support for parental choice in American education, the origins of school vouchers are seated in identity politics, religious schooling, and educational entrepreneurship. Inserting much-needed historical context into the voucher debates, Freedom of Choice: Vouchers in American Education treats school vouchers as a series of social movements set within the context of evolving American conservatism. The study ranges from the use of tuition grants in the 1950s and early 1960s in the interest of fostering segregation to the wider acceptance of vouchers in the 1990s as a means of counteracting real and perceived shortcomings of urban public schools. The rise of school vouchers, author Jim Carl suggests, is best explained as a mechanism championed by four distinct groups-white supremacists in the South, supporters of parochial school in the North, minority advocates of community schools in the nation's big cities, and political conservatives of both major parties. Though freedom was the rallying cry, this book shows that voucher supporters had more specific goals: continued racial segregation of public education, tax support for parochial schools, aid to urban community schools, and opening up the public school sector to educational entrepreneurs.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313393280
• Artikelnr.: 37827720

Autorenporträt

Jim Carl, PhD, is chair of the Department of Curriculum and Foundations at Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Tables List of Figures List of Maps Series Foreword Preface
Chapter 1 Freedom Setting the Parameters Freedom to Choose The Federalist
State Welfare State Contradiction Conservatism The Color of American
Politics Plan of the Book Chapter 2 Tuition Grants The Legislative Backlash
to Brown The 1960 School Crisis The Ninth Ward Elementary School Spread of
Tuition Grants Legal Defense of Tuition Grants From Tuition Grants to
Segregated Academies Chapter 3 Detour Right Turn at the Office of Economic
Opportunity The Friedmanite Voucher The New Hampshire Context Yankee
Democracy Aftermath of New Hampshire Vouchers Chapter 4 The Urban School
Crisis Reverend Virgil Blum's Vouchers Crusade Public and Private Education
in Milwaukee Responses to School Desegregation Independent Community
Schools Black Political Power in Milwaukee Governor Tommy Thompson The
Bradley Foundation Vouchers Come to Milwaukee Polly Williams and the
Parental Choice Debate Chapter 5 The Church in the City Depression-era
Vouchers Cleveland's Urban School Crisis School Desegregation and
Resegregation Statehouse and City Hall Politics Cleveland Voucher
Supporters The Church in the City The Governor and the Entrepreneur The
Cleveland Scholarship and Tutoring Program Chapter 6 Fixing School Vouchers
The Legal Challenges School Vouchers in Perspective Prospects for School
Vouchers Notes Bibliography Index