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    Education and Capitalism: How Overcoming Our Fear of Markets and Economics Can Improve America's Schools, edited by Herbert J. Walberg & Joseph L. Bast
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    Education and Capitalism: How Overcoming Our Fear of Markets and Economics Can Improve America's Schools, edited by Herbert J. Walberg & Joseph L. Bast
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    Education and Capitalism: How Overcoming Our Fear of Markets and Economics Can Improve America's Schools, edited by Herbert J. Walberg & Joseph L. Bast

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    For parents, teachers, policymakers, taxpayers, and scholars who want better schools for children regardless of their race, social background, or parents' income, this book asserts that, if schools were "privatized" (moved from the public to the private sector), they could once again do a superior job providing kindergarten to twelfth-grade (K–12) education.

    Drawing on insights and findings from history, psychology, sociology, political science, and economics, the authors reveal

    Why schools and past efforts at school reform have failed
    Why capitalism can be trusted to produce safe and effective schools—and why economics is an appropriate tool for studying how schooling is delivered
    What history tells us about the government's role in schooling—and why keeping most schooling in the hands of government does not help achieve equality and democracy
    How guidelines for voucher programs that protect the poorest and most vulnerable members of society otherwise work as well as their proponents predict
    Why conservatives and libertarians should support school voucher programs

    The authors show that, unless popular myths about capitalism are challenged, school reform will stall well short of success. Without a broader understanding of how and why markets work, the small steps in the right direction taken at the end of the twentieth century risk being swept away at the start of the twenty-first.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHoover Institution
    Release dateOct 23, 2003
    ISBN9780817939724
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    Education and Capitalism: How Overcoming Our Fear of Markets and Economics Can Improve America's Schools, edited by Herbert J. Walberg & Joseph L. Bast
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    Herbert J. Walberg

    Herbert J. Walberg is a distinguished visiting fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and project investigator at the Vanderbilt University Center of School Choice, Competition, and Achievement. Walberg has written or edited more than 60 books, including Radical Education Reforms. He has a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and taught at Harvard University and the University of Illinois at Chicago for 35 years.

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