Choice And Competition in American Education

by Peterson, Paul E.

• ISBN13: 9780742545809
• ISBN10: 0742545806
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-11-10
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

This book examines the likely promise and pitfalls of many of the most controversial forms of school choice as well as the introduction of greater competition into the recruitment and compensation of teachers and principals. In a group of essays originally published in Education Next: A Journal of Opinion and Research, these essays paint the picture of an education landscape that will be greatly shaped by choice and competition in the 21st century. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Table of Contents

Section I: The Profit Motive: Will It Benefit Kids?
Introduction: The Use of Market Incentives in Education	3	(10)
Paul E. Peterson
1 The Private Can Be Public	13	(10)
John E. Chubb
2 The Costs of Privatization	23	(10)
Henry M. Levin
Section II: The Education Profession
Part A: Should We Deregulate Entry into the Profession?
3 Regulations Do More Harm than Good	33	(10)
Frederick M. Hess
4 In Defense of Regulation	43	(12)
Mary E. Diez
5 We Need New Types of Administrators	55	(14)
Frederick M. Hess
6 New Leaders: Will Public Schools Hire Them?	69	(10)
Alexander Russo
Part B: Making Teacher Pay More Competitive
7 Fringe Benefits: AFT and NEA Teacher Salary Surveys	79	(14)
Michael Podgursky
8 Low Pay, Low Quality	93	(9)
Peter Temin
9 The Case for Merit Pay	102	(9)
Lewis C. Solmon
10 Wage Compression and the Decline in Teacher Quality	111	(12)
Caroline M. Hoxby and Andrew Leigh
Part C: Do Teacher Unions Stifle Reform?
11 A Union by Any Other Name	123	(13)
Terry M. Moe
12 Reform Unionism Is Here	136	(13)
Charles Taylor Kerchner
Section III: School Choice
Part A: Charter Schools
13 Charter Schools: Mom and Pops or Corporate Design	149	(12)
Bryan C. Hassel
14 Charter School Politics	161	(11)
Bruno V. Manno
15 A School Built for Horace: Tales from a Start-up Charter School	172	(11)
Nancy Faust Sizer and Theodore R. Sizer
Part B: School Vouchers
16 The Impact of Vouchers on Student Performance	183	(11)
William G. Howell, Patrick J. Wolf, Paul E. Peterson, and David E. Campbell
17 Do Vouchers and Charters Push Public Schools to Improve?	194	(12)
Caroline M. Hoxby
18 School Choice and Social Cohesion	206	(13)
David E. Campbell
19 How Vouchers Came to D.C.	219	(14)
Spencer S. Hsu
Part C: Other Ways of Increasing School Choice
20 Contracting Out: The Story behind Philadelphia's Edison Contract	233	(10)
Jay Mathews
21 Home Schooling: The Nation's Fastest-growing Education Sector	243	(12)
Christopher W. Hammons
22 School Choice in No Child Left Behind	255	(10)
William G. Howell
23 Selling Supplemental Services	265
Siobhan Gorman