This review of the furious national debate over school choice examines the benefits of choice for children, families, and schools—and shows how properly designed choice programs can prevent the harmful outcomes opponents fear.

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• Foreword (0817938923_vii.pdf ~26 KB)
• Chapter 1: Introduction (0817938923_1.pdf ~63 KB)
• Chapter 2: Baselines for Assessment of Choice Programs (0817938923_15.pdf ~122 KB)
• Chapter 3: Who Chooses? Who Uses? Participation in a National School Voucher Program (0817938923_51.pdf ~114 KB)
• Chapter 4: A Supply-Side View of Student Selectivity (0817938923_85.pdf ~111 KB)
• Chapter 5: Will Quality of Peers Doom Those Left in the Public Schools? (0817938923_121.pdf ~75 KB)
• Chapter 6: How School Choice Affects the Achievement of Public School Students (0817938923_141.pdf ~120 KB)
• Chapter 7: The Structure of School Choice (0817938923_179.pdf ~111 KB)
• Contributors (0817938923_213.pdf ~28 KB)
• Index (0817938923_217.pdf ~39 KB)