School Choice Audiobook (Free)

The issues and arguments surrounding school choice are sometimes hijacked to create political points about authorities control, democratic ideals, the public good, and privatization. In this volume in the MIT Press Necessary Knowledge series, David Garcia avoids partisan arguments to provide an accessible, goal, and comprehensive instruction to school choice. He first outlines the different types of college choice, including home schooling, private academic institutions, freedom-of-choice programs, magnet colleges, about College Choice charter colleges, vouchers, and education cost savings accounts. Two designs emerge as especially resonant in the American school choice issue: the lengthy history of school desegregation, and debates on the jobs and responsibilities of government. Is certainly education a community good, for the collective good thing about society, or a private good, to advantage the individual?

Garcia describes and evaluates the main arguments supporting college choice guidelines: the reduction of government bureaucracies, the introduction of competition into education through marketplace forces, the advertising of parental choice, and the casting of college choice like a civil best. He examines the study on the consequences of college choice and summarizes general styles. Finally, he considers how college choice policies will probably evolve.