The Fox School of Business and Management

Privatizing Education and Educational Choice

Concepts, Plans and Experiences

Simon Hakim, Paul Seidenstat, and Gary W. Bowman, eds.

Eighteen experts, including Albert Shanker, Ernest L. Boyer, Thomas Kean, and John Menge, examine the issues surrounding educational choice in public school systems and the voucher system for private schools. They discuss when choice should be considered, methods of implementation, and the extent to which government should be involved. Descriptions and evaluations of choice programs that have been implemented are presented. The book includes contributions from both supporters and opponents of choice presented within an academic framework to enhance examination, debate, and analysis. Since thirty-seven states have adopted legislation that provides some kind of choice in the public education system, the issues involved will be important to school boards, educational administrators, public policy makers, parents, and taxpayers.

1994. 248 pp.
Paper: $22.95,
ISBN 0-275-95081-6.

Hardcover: $59.95,
ISBN 0-275-94751-3.

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Contents

1. Introduction
Simon Hakim, Paul Seidenstat, and Gary W. Bowman

2. An Economic View of the Effectiveness of Public and Private Schools
David Beers and Jerry Ellig

3. Why Educational Choice: The Florida Experience
Tom Feeney

4. Private School Choice: An Ineffective Path to Educational Reform
Albert Shanker and Bella Rosenberg

5. Public Schools by Contract: An Alternative to Privatization
Paul T. Hill

6. Three Privatization Models for Public Schools
Thomas H. Kean

7. Redesigning the Financing of American Education to Raise Productivity: The Case for a Just Voucher
Peter W. Cookson, Jr.

8. A "GI Bill" for Educating All Children
Pierre S. DuPont IV

9. Blending the Neighborhood School Tradition with "Choice within Schools"
Ernest L. Boyer

10. Privatizing Higher Education
Kevin C. Sontheimer

11. The Evaluation of the New Hampshire Plan: An Early Voucher System
John Menge

12. The Milwaukee Choice Program
Thomas Hetland

13. A Public-Private Partnership: South Pointe Elementary School of Dade County, Florida
Thomas H. Peeler and Patricia A. Parham

14. Making Choice an Option for Parents: East Harlem, New York
William E. Ubinas

15. Public Choice in Minnesota
Michael C. Rubenstein and Nancy E. Adelman

Index

Editors

GARY W. BOWMAN, Associate Professor of Economics, has been at Temple University since 1973. His research focuses on applications of microeconomics including public and managerial decisions and policy in such areas as privatization, regulation, and antitrust. He has published approximately fifteen articles, edited two books, and headed funded research projects from the National Science Foundation and other sources.

SIMON HAKIM is Professor of Economics at Temple University. He has published more than thirty scientific articles and has edited four books as well as conducting funded research projects for governmental agencies and private companies. His work centers on analysis of criminal behavior, police operations, and privatization of justice institutions.

PAUL SEIDENSTAT is Associate Professor of Economics at Temple University. He has been principle investigator for several research projects for federal government agencies and has served local governments as finance director and financial advisor. His research has been in the area of state and local government, finance and management, and urban and environmental economics. He has published a book and several articles in these fields.

Contributors

NANCY E. ADELMAN is Senior Research Associate with Policy Studies Associates, Washington, D.C. She evaluates federal and state educational programs for disadvantaged students.

DAVID BEERS is Assistant Professor of Economics at Wichita Collegiate School, Wichita, Kansas. He was formerly a policy analyst for Citizens for a Sound Economy, Washington, D.C.

ERNEST L. BOYER is President of The Camegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. He served as U.S. Commissioner of Education and Chancellor of the State University of New York.

PETER W. COOKSON, JR., is Associate Dean of the School of Education at Adelphi University, Garden City, New York, and the author of several books in the field of education and school choice.

PIERRE S. DUPONT IV, a Delaware attorney, is a former governor of the State of Delaware and U.S. Congressman. In 1988 he was a candidate for President of the United States. He is currently associated with several organizations that focus upon foreign affairs and domestic policy issues.

JERRY ELLIG is Assistant Professor of Economics and Associate Director of Center for the Study of Market Processes at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia.

TOM FEENEY is an attorney and a member of the Florida House of Representatives. The author of legislation on parental choice in education, he is Chairman of the Education Task Force Committee for the American Legislative Exchange Council.

THOMAS HETLAND is Executive Director of the Center for Rebuilding America's Schools and President of Driscoll Catholic High School, Addison, Illinois.

PAUL T. HILL is Director of the joint University of Washington-RAND Program on Reinventing Public Education. He is both a Senior Social Scientist for RAND and Research Professor in the Graduate School of Public Affairs at the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.

THOMAS H. KEAN is President of Drew University, Madison, New Jersey, and former governor of New Jersey. He chaired the New American Schools Development Corporation and the National Environmental Education and Training Foundation.

JOHN MEENGE is Professor of Economics and Chair of the Department of Economics at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. He has been a member of the New Hampshire legislature and consultant to the National Institute of Education and the New Hampshire State School Board.

PATRICIA A. PARHAM is Principal of South Pointe Elementary School, Miami, Florida. She is the recipient of the Florida Commissioner of Education's "Excellence in Leadership" award.

THOMAS H. PEELER is Associate Professor of Education at California State University, Los Angeles. He currently directs a major evaluation project on the performance of the South Pointe Elementary School program in Dade County, Florida. He was Superintendent of Schools in Santa Barbara and Clarement, California, school districts.

BELLA ROSENBERG is Assistant to the President, American Federation of Teachers, Washington, D.C. She previously served as Research Associate at the National Institute of Education.

MICHAEL C. RUBENSTEIN, Research Associate with Policy Studies Associates, Washington, D.C., evaluates federal and state educational programs for disadvantaged students.

ALBERT SHANKER is President of American Federation of Teachers, Washington, D.C.; Vice President of the AFL-CIO, and founding President of Education International, a federation of 20 million teachers from democratic countries around the world.

KEVIN C. SONTHEIMER is Director of the Economic Policy Institute of the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

WIILLIAM E. UBINAS is Superintendent of Community District One, New York City Public Schools

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