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Beyond the Free Market: The Structure of School Choice

I. INTRODUCTION

School choice is the most controversial reform in American education. When parents are given the right to choose, critics argue, children from advantaged families reap the rewards of new educational opportunities, while the less advantaged are left behind in the regular pub lic schools-which, because of the outflow of good students and much-needed resources, are even less capable of serving them.1

These claims and others like them deserve to be taken seriously. If they are true, an expansion of parental choice threatens to undermine the public schools, lower academic achievement, and worsen problems of class and race that our nation has been struggling for decades to ...

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