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- catalog abstract "This book, the second in the Twentieth Century Fund's series of studies on the privatization of public services, finds that current arguments for privatizing schools are based on wishful thinking. After examining what the actual experience has been with privatization around the country, Hard Lessons concludes that the promise of saving money and improving educational quality through privatization is, at minimum, being oversold. While this report is likely to be disputed by those who have a strong attachment to the notion that privatizing always improves output--and by those with a financial stake in the for-profit school " industry"--It will be an important part of the ongoing debate. The report, which focuses on big city schools, argues that while the magic wand of privatization must be abandoned, the efforts to solve the problems facing our nation's urban schools must continue; there are hard questions to be asked, new solutions to be tried, and the case must continually be made for new resources for our public schools, even in today's political climate.".
- catalog alternative "Public schools and privatization".
- catalog contributor b9903659.
- catalog contributor b9903660.
- catalog contributor b9903661.
- catalog created "1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1996.".
- catalog description "Foreword / Richard C. Leone -- 1. Our besieged public schools and why they are public -- 2. Promises of privatization -- 3. Two forgotten experiments in school privatization: performance contracting and educational vouchers -- 4. Privatization in Baltimore, 1992-95 -- 5. Experimenting with privatization -- 6. Public education in transition -- 7. The limits of privatization and the continuing struggle for equity.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (pages 115-133) and index.".
- catalog description "This book, the second in the Twentieth Century Fund's series of studies on the privatization of public services, finds that current arguments for privatizing schools are based on wishful thinking. After examining what the actual experience has been with privatization around the country, Hard Lessons concludes that the promise of saving money and improving educational quality through privatization is, at minimum, being oversold. While this report is likely to be disputed by those who have a strong attachment to the notion that privatizing always improves output--and by those with a financial stake in the for-profit school " industry"--It will be an important part of the ongoing debate. The report, which focuses on big city schools, argues that while the magic wand of privatization must be abandoned, the efforts to solve the problems facing our nation's urban schools must continue; there are hard questions to be asked, new solutions to be tried, and the case must continually be made for new resources for our public schools, even in today's political climate.".
- catalog extent "xi, 144 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Hard lessons.".
- catalog identifier "0870783998".
- catalog isFormatOf "Hard lessons.".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Twentieth Century Fund Press,".
- catalog relation "Hard lessons.".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "379.3/0973 20".
- catalog subject "Educational vouchers United States.".
- catalog subject "LB2806.36 .A73 1996".
- catalog subject "Privatization in education United States.".
- catalog subject "School choice United States.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Foreword / Richard C. Leone -- 1. Our besieged public schools and why they are public -- 2. Promises of privatization -- 3. Two forgotten experiments in school privatization: performance contracting and educational vouchers -- 4. Privatization in Baltimore, 1992-95 -- 5. Experimenting with privatization -- 6. Public education in transition -- 7. The limits of privatization and the continuing struggle for equity.".
- catalog title "Hard lessons : public schools and privatization / Carol Ascher, Norm Frutcher, Robert Berne.".
- catalog title "Public schools and privatization".
- catalog type "text".