School Choice and Privatization

Developed by: W. Huitt
Last revised: February 2006

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School Choice (Web Sites)

• Choice: Education Commission of the States
• School Choice: The Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life, Boston College
• School choice: Charters and vouchers-The Ontario (Canada) Secondary School Teachers' Federation
• School Choice: Education Week
• School Choice: ERIC Clearinghouse on Educational Management
• School Choice: Teach-nology
• School Choice: Edvisors.com
• Educational Issues from the Heartland Institute
• School Reform: Audio and video links from the SRC Network Center
• 4Choice: School choice without vouchers
• School Choices: Andrew Coulson, Senior Research Associate with the Social Philosophy and Policy Center (BGSU, Ohio)
• Private School Review: Provides profiles of private schools and their surrounding communities

School Choice (Readings)

• DeSchryver, D. (2000, March). School choice today. Washington, DC: The Center for Education Reform. Retrieved: February 2003. [http://www.edreform.com/pubs/choicetoday.htm]
• Hill, P. T. & Guin, K. (2003). Baselines for assessment of choice programs. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 11(39). Retrieved October 2003, from http://epaa.asu.edu/epaa/v11n39/
• Lubienski, C.(2001). Redefining "public" education:  Charter schools, common schools, and the rhetoric of reform. Teachers College Record, 103(4), 634-666. Retrieved: February 2003. [executive summary and PDF version available online from http://www.tcrecord.org (free registration required)]
• Lubienski, C. (2001). The relationship of competition and choice to innovation in education markets. (Occasional Paper # 26) New York:  National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education, Teachers College, Columbia University. Retrieved: February 2003. [http://ncspe.org/keepout/papers/00026/38_OP_No._26.pdf]
• Merrifield, J. (2000). The school-choice choices. The Independent Review, V(2), 189-207. Retrieved: February 2003. [http://www.independent.org/tii/media/pdf/tir52merrifield.pdf]
• Morrison, L. (1998). The tax credits program for school choice. Dallas, TX: National Center for Policy Analysis. Retrieved: February 2003. [http://www.ncpa.org/studies/s213.html]
• Ferrero, D. J. (2003, August 25). Embracing pedagogical pluralism: An educator's case for (at least public) school choice.
  Education Policy Analysis Archives, 11(30). Retrieved August 2003, from http://epaa.asu.edu/epaa/v11n30/.

Charter Schools (Web Sites)

• Charter Friends National Network--from the Center for Policy Studies, in cooperation with Hamline University
• National Charter School Clearninghouse--from RCB High School, a division of AIBT International Institute of the Americas
• Charter Schools: Education Commission of the States
• U. S. Charter Schools
• About Charter Schools--from The Center for Educational Reform
• Charter Law Scorecard Ranks States--from The Center for Educational Reform
• Charter Schools--from WestEd, a Regional Educational Laboratory
• Charter School Law--A guide to charter school resources on the web
• Charter School Accreditation--American Academy for Liberal Education
• Charter School Resources--Western Regional Resource Center
• Charter Schools in the Workplace--Lisa Snell, Reason Public Policy Institute
• National Study of Charter Schools--RPP International
• Charter School Related Websites--RPP International
• Capital Funding for Charter Schools--by Mark Howard
• Choice Office, Florida Department of Education
• Florida Consortium of Charter Schools
• Florida LEADS (Leadership for Electronic Access to Data for Schools)
• City Montessori School of Lucknow, India--Every child is potentially the light of the world
• Chrysalis Charter School, Redding, CA: A collaboration between a school district and a natural science museum
• Progress Report: Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability, The Florida Legislature

Charter Schools (Readings)

• Erricson, J., & Silverman, D. (2001). Challenge and opportunity: The impact of charter schools on school districts (A report of the national study of charter schools). Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement. Retrieved: February 2003. [http://www.ed.gov/pubs/chartimpact/district_impact.doc]
• Frankenberg, E., & Lee, C. (2003, September 5). Charter schools and race: A lost opportunity for integrated education. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 11(32). Retrieved September 2003, from http://epaa.asu.edu/epaa/v11n32/
• Glass, G. (1994). School choice: A discussion with Herbert Gintis. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2(6). Retrieved: June 1998. [http://olam.ed.asu.edu/epaa/v2n6.html]
• Hadderman, M. (1998). Charter schools. Eugene, OR: ERIC Clearinghouse on Educational Management. [ED422600]. Retrieved: December 1999.  [http://eric.uoregon.edu/publications/digests/digest118.html]
• Sautter, R. C. (1993). Charter schools: A new breed of public schools. Oak Brook, IL: North Central Regional Educational Laboratory. Retrieved: December 1999.  [http://www.ncrel.org/ncrel/sdrs/areas/issues/envrnmnt/go/93-2toc.htm]
• Snell, L. (2002, December). Florida leads the school choice movement. Privatization Watch. Retrieved: February 2003. [http://www.rppi.org/flschoolchoice.html]
• U.S. Department of Education. Institute for Education Sciences. National Center for Education Statistics. (2004). The nation's report card: America's charter school report, NCES 2005-456. Washington, DC: Natlional Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved December 2004, from http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/studies/charter/2005456.asp.

Entrepreneurship and Charter Schools

• Charter Schools in Florida focusing on Entrepreneuship
• Entrepreneurship Academy in Boston, MA

Vouchers

• What Next for School Vouchers? Conference sponsored the Program on Education Policy and Governance, Taubman Center for State and Local Government, Kennedy School of Government.
• Hot Topics-Vouchers: WestEd, a regional educational laboratory (formerly Far West and Southwest Laboratories)
• Laitsch, D. (2002, December 4). K-12 voucher programs and education policy: An exploratory study of policy maker attitudes and opinions, Education Policy Analysis Archives, 10(48). Retrieved: December 2002. [http://epaa.asu.edu/epaa/v10n48/]

Homeschooling, and Other Alternatives

• Homeschool Central
• A to Z Home's Cool Homeschooling Web Site
• Ari, A. B. (1999). Homeschooling and the redefinition of citizenship. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 7(27). Retrieved December 1999, from http://epaa.asu.edu/epaa/v10n48/
• Belfield, C., (2004). Modeling school choice: A comparison of public, private-independent, private-religious and home-schooled students. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 12(30). Retrieved November 2004, from http://epaa.asu.edu/epaa/v12n30/
• Bauman, K. J. (2002, May 16). Home schooling in the United States: Trends and Characteristics. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 10(26). Retrieved May 2002, from http://epaa.asu.edu/epaa/v10n26.html
• Princiotta, D., Bielick, S., & Chapman, C. (2006). Homeschooling the in United States: 2003. Washington, DC: National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved February 2006, from http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2006/2006042.pdf

Privatization (Web Sites)

• National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education: Teachers College, Columbia University
• The World Bank Group: Papers on education and privatization
• Privatization and Public Education: Education Week
• The AFT Center on Privatization
• Education: Public vs. Private from the Jim Self Center on the Future at Clemson University

Privatization (Readings)

• Ascher, C., Fruchter, N., & Berne, R. (1996). Hard lessons: Public schools and privatization (Selected chapters). New York: Twentieth Century Fund. Retrieved February 2003, from http://www.tcf.org/Publications/Education/Hard_Lessons/Foreword.html#contents
• Belfield, C. R. (2004, August 18). Democratic education across school types: Evidence for the U.S. from NHES99. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 12(43). Retrieved August 2004, from http://epaa.asu.edu/epaa/v12n43/
• Carnoy, M. (2000). School choice? Or is it privatization? Educational Researcher, 29(7), 15-20. Retrieved February 2003, from http://www.aera.net/pubs/er/pdf/vol29_07/AERA290703.pdf
• Elert, G. (1994). School privatization and choice: A sociopolitical analysis. E-World. Retrieved February 2003, http://hypertextbook.com/eworld/choice.shtml
• Laitsch, D. (1998). School choice and privatization efforts: A legislative survey. Washington, DC: American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education. Retrieved February 2003, http://www.edpolicy.org/publications/documents/priv.pdf
• Noguera, P. (1993). Confronting the challenge of privatization in public education. In Motion Magazine. Retrieved February 2003, http://www.inmotionmagazine.com/pnpriv1.html
• Tooley, J. (2005, Fall). Private schools for the poor. Education Next, 4. Retrieved November 2005, from http://www.educationnext.org/20054/pdf/22.pdf
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