This second volume from the National Working Commission on Choice in K-12 Education examines the connections between school choice and the goals of equity and efficiency in education. The contributors -distinguished university professors, high school administrators, and scholars from research institutions around the country -assess the efficiency of the educational system, analyzing efforts to boost average achievement. Their discussion of equity focuses on the reduction of racial and religious segregation in education, as well as measures to ensure that "no child is left behind." The result is an authoritative and balanced look at how to maximize benefits while minimizing risks in the implementation of school choice. The National Working Commission on Choice in K-12 Education was established to explore how choice works and to examine how communities interested in the potential benefits of new school options could obtain them while avoiding choice's potential harms. In addition to the editors, commissioners include Paul T. Hill and Dan Goldhaber (University of Washington), David Ferrero (Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation), Brian P. Gill and Laura Hamilton (Rand), Jeffrey R. Henig (Teachers College, Columbia University), Frederick M. Hess (American Enterprise Institute), Stephen Macedo (Princeton University), Lawrence Rosenstock (High Tech High, San Diego), Charles Venegoni (Civitas Schools in Chicago), Janet Weiss (University of Michigan), and Patrick J. Wolf (Georgetown University).
Tom Loveless is director of the Brown Center on Education Policy and senior fellow in the Governance Studies program at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of the annual Brown Center Reports on American Education. Julian Betts is a professor in the Department of Economics at the University of San Diego and a senior fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California, where he has published several books on education policy.
"The thoughtful essays in this book are helpful for those considering school choice, and the many references to other studies are a virtue. Although this is not the final word on school choice, it's arguably the most-informed single volume on the subject." -Michael Coulter, School Reform News, 5/1/2007 |"Researchers and analysts in the school choice field will find this book essential reading" -Michael J. Petrilli, The Education Gadfly, 3/2/2006 |"Getting Choice Right: Ensuring Equity and Efficiency in Education Policy is an informed and scholarly study that includes numerous and knowledgeable contributors regarding the involvement of political education on racism, ethnicity, religious segregation, and judgement for the K-12 levels of education." - Library Bookwatch |"This reviewer recommends Getting Choice Right to policy makers, as well as education and social science researchers, because it is informative and instructive. Both supporters and opponents of school-choice schemes would benefit from the information and analysis provided in Getting Choice Right." -Shawgi Tell, Nazareth College of Rochester, Journal of Negro Education
