W ith George W. Bush’s assumption of the presidency, a campaign to provide vouchers for private schooling may gain new life. The idea of public funding of private schools is not new, nor does it belong exclusively to conservative free market reformers. In the 1960s and early 1970s, academics on the left, such as Christopher […]
Martin Carnoy
Martin Carnoy, a professor of education at Stanford University, is the author of Sustaining the New Economy: Work, Family, and Community in the Information Age.