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Article: School choice, return to Latin, and busing.(BOOKS)(EDUCATION)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- July 14, 2002
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Byline: Martin Morse Wooster, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
The recent Supreme Court ruling that school vouchers are constitutional ensured that school choice will remain a high-priority item on the national educational agenda. Yet there are very few books that look at school choice in a fair-minded, objective way; too often books about vouchers are written by friends or foes of the reform, who seek to exaggerate or minimize the effects of vouchers. Anyone interested in school choice ought to place Frederick M. Hess' Revolution at the Margins: The Impact of Competition on Urban School Systems (Brookings, $18.95, 242 pages) on their reading list.
Mr. ...