By Robert C. Enlow, Lenore F. Ealy
Fifty years in the past, Milton Friedman had the ground-breaking proposal to enhance public schooling with institution vouchers. by means of keeping apart executive financing of schooling from executive management of faculties, Friedman argued, mom and dad in any respect source of revenue degrees may have the liberty to settle on the colleges their young ones attend. Liberty & studying is a suite of essays from the nation's most sensible schooling specialists comparing the development of Friedman's cutting edge suggestion and reflecting on its advantages within the twenty first century. The booklet additionally features a specified prologue and epilogue by way of Milton Friedman himself. The members to this quantity take quite a few ways to Friedman's voucher inspiration. them all check the advantage of Friedman's plan via an lively, modern viewpoint, notwithstanding a few authors take a theoretical place, whereas others hire a truly pragmatic strategy.
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Although this issue was not directly addressed in Friedman’s original article, in recent decades it has surfaced as a politically and socially significant variable in the development and implementation of voucher initiatives. The neighborhood effects argument that Friedman marshaled for the general voucher proposal a half century ago seems to apply, at least in part, to some form of means-tested or even ‘‘circumstance-tested’’ voucher, such as those awarded to families in some places today when their assigned schools are deemed ‘‘failing’’ or low performing.
But the decision did not suggest that racial imbalance, per se, crippled their education. In fact, at its heart was an insistence that black families have more choice—the choice to go to a neighborhood school that whites attended, for instance. De jure segregation was all about restricting choice—and Brown about expanding it. 39 LIBERTY & LEARNING Nevertheless, 14 years after the decision, the desegregation of schools in the Deep South had barely begun, and the Supreme Court (in the context of the assassination of Dr.
Howell and Paul E. Peterson, The Education Gap: Vouchers and Urban Schools (Washington: Brookings Institution Press, 2002); C. M. Hoxby, The Economics of School Choice (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003); H. Levin, Privatizing Education: Can the Marketplace Deliver Freedom of Choice, Efficiency, Equity, and Social Cohesion? (Boulder, CO: Westview, 2001); and E. G. html. 2. Milton Friedman, ‘‘The Role of Government in Education,’’ in Economics and the Public Interest, ed. Robert A. Solo (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1955), p.
