The Ideology of Education: The Commonwealth, the Market, and America's Schools

Explores the ideological underpinnings of school choice and other market-based education reforms.

Advocates of market-based education reforms (including such policies as choice, charters, vouchers, and outright privatization) argue that they represent ready solutions to clearly defined problems. Critics of market models, on the other hand, argue that these reforms misperceive the purposes of public education and threaten its democratic ethos. This book explores both the promises and pitfalls...