Introduction School Choice: a Brief Overview
Notes Introduction School Choice: A Brief Overview Notes to Pages 1–3 1. See as examples for Germany, Frank-Rüdiger Jach, Schulvielfalt als Verfassungsgebot (Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 1991); for the United Kingdom, G. Walford, ed., School Choice and the Quasi-Market (Wallingford: Triangle Books, 1996); for the United States, Peter W. Cookson, School Choice: The Struggle for the Soul of American Education (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1994); and for Australia and New Zealand, Geoff Whitty, Sally Power, and David Halpin, Devolution and Choice in Education: The School, the State and the Market (Buckingham, England: Open University Press, 1998). See also the com- parative OECD Report with examples from Australia, England, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United States, Centre for Educational Research and Innovation, School: A Matter of Choice (Paris: Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, 1994). 2. John E. Chubb and Terry M. Moe, Politics, Markets, and America’s Schools (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1990), p. 219. 3. On this see Diane Ravitch, The Troubled Crusade: American Education 1945–1980 (New York: Basic Books, 1983), pp. 308–311. 4. For the German side on this see Günter Püttner, “Die Sprengelpflicht,” Recht der Jugend und des Bildungswesens: Zeitschrift für Schule, Berufsbildung und Jugenderziehung 40 (1992): 230–235. In the United States, the neigh- borhood school concept expresses a similar practice, albeit in less forceful and legalistic language. 5. Three noteworthy exceptions are William W. Cutler, III, Parents and Schools: The 150–year Struggle for Control in American Education (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000); Otto F.
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