Public vs. private: the early history of school choice in America 1st Edition

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• ISBN-10: 0190644591
• ISBN-13: 9780190644598
• Author: Robert N. Gross

Americans today choose from a dizzying array of schools, loosely lumped into categories of “public” and “private.” How did these distinctions emerge in the first place, and what do they tell us about the more general relationship in the United States between public authority and private enterprise? In Public vs. Private, Robert N. Gross describes how, more than a century ago, public policies fostered the rise of modern school choice. In the late nineteenth century, American Catholics began constructing rival, urban parochial school systems, an enormous and dramatic undertaking that challenged public school systems’ near-monopoly of education. In a nation deeply committed to public education, mass attendance in Catholic schools produced immense conflict. States quickly sought ways to regulate this burgeoning private sector and the competition it produced, even attempting to abolish private education altogether in the 1920s. Ultimately, however, Gross shows how the public policies that resulted produced a stable educational marketplace, where choice flourished. The creation of the educational marketplace that we have inherited today–with systematic alternatives to public schools–was as much a product of public power as of private initiative.

Table contents:

1. Public Monopoly
2. Competing Schools
3. Educational Regulation
4. Public Policy and Private Schools
5. Creating the Educational Marketplace
6. Fighting the Educational Monopoly

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