Book Search:  

 

 
Google full text of our books:

bookjacket

Rethinking School Choice:
Limits of the Market Metaphor
Jeffrey R. Henig

With a new afterword by the author

Paper | 1995 | $37.50 / £22.50
312 pp. | 6 x 9

e-Book | 2001 | $14.95 (Microsoft Reader format) | ISBN: 978-1-4008-0362-0
e-Book | 2001 | $14.95 (Adobe Reader format) | ISBN: 978-1-4008-0364-4

Shopping Cart | Reviews | Table of Contents

Google full text of this book:
 

Advocates of school vouchers and other choice proposals couch their arguments in the fashionable language of economic theory. Choice initiatives at all levels of government have succeeded, it is claimed, because they shift responsibility for education reform from government to market forces. This timely book disputes the appropriateness of the market metaphor as a guide to education policy.

Reviews:

"For anyone interested in a full treatment of [choice], Henig's Rethinking School Choice is an absolute must. Exhaustive, comprehensive, and balanced, Henig's book sets the standard, for style as well as context, against which others will be measured."--Gerald Bracey, The Washington Post

"A tightly argued effort to reduce the crisis mentality about American education and suggest that shopping for schools is not the same as shopping for VCRs. . . . An intricate but fair-minded discussion that ultimately--while for choice--comes down against market-based vouchers."--Kirkus Reviews

"This book makes a forceful, tough-minded contribution to the raging debate over school choice. But it goes well beyond this debate, and refocuses the way we look at education."--John F. Witte, University of Wisconsin-Madison, co-editor of Choice and Control in American Education

Endorsement:

"This book makes a forceful, tough-minded contribution to the raging debate over school choice. But it goes well beyond this debate, and refocuses the way we look at education."--John F. Witte,University of Wisconsin-Madison

Table of Contents

Other Princeton books by Jeffrey R. Henig:

Subject Areas:

Hardcover published in 1993

Shopping Cart:

For customers in the U.S., Canada, Latin America, Asia, and Australia

Paper: $37.50 ISBN13: 978-0-691-04472-9

For customers in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and India

Paper: £22.50 ISBN13: 978-0-691-04472-9

Our e-Book editions are available from these online vendors:

Prices subject to change without notice

File created: 7/1/2008

Questions and comments to: webmaster@press.princeton.edu
Princeton University Press

New Book E-Mails
New In Print
Subjects
Catalogs
Series
Sample Chapters
Podcasts/Vodcasts
Recent Awards
E-Books
Online Books
Online Ordering
For Reviewers
Permissions
Class Use
About Us
Contact Us
European Office
Links
F.A.Q.
Home Page
Send me emails
about new books in:
Political Science and International Relations
Sociology
Education
More Choices
Email:
Country:
Name: