Choice and competition in American education /
edited by Paul E. Peterson.
- Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2006.
- vii, 274 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Introduction : the use of market incentives in education / Paul E. Peterson -- The private can be public / John E. Chubb -- The costs of privatization / Henry M. Levin -- Regulations do more harm than good / Frederick M. Hess -- In defense of regulation / Mary E. Diez -- We need new types of administrators / Frederick M. Hess -- New leaders : will public schools hire them? / Alexander Russo -- Fringe benefits : AFT and NEA teacher salary surveys / Michael Podgursky -- Low pay, low quality / Peter Temin -- The case for merit pay / Lewis C. Solmon -- Wage compression and the decline in teacher quality / Caroline Hoxby & Andrew Leigh -- A union by any other name / Terry M. Moe -- Reform unionism is here / Charles Taylor Kerchner -- Charter schools : mom and pops or corporate design / Bryan C. Hassel -- Charter-school politics / Bruno V. Manno -- A school built for Horace : tales from a start-up charter school / Nancy Faust Sizer & Theodore R. Sizer -- The impact of vouchers on student performance / William J. Howell ... [et al.] -- Do vouchers and charters push public schools to improve? / Caroline Hoxby -- School choice and social cohesion / David Campbell -- How vouchers came to D.C. / Spencer S. Hsu -- Contracting out : the story behind Philadelphia's Edison contract / Jay Mathews -- Home schooling : the nation's fastest-growing education sector / Christopher W. Hammons -- School choice in No Child Left Behind / William G. Howell -- Selling supplemental services / Siobhan Gorman.