A heated debate is raging over our nation's public schools and how they should be reformed, with proposals ranging from imposing national standards to replacing public education altogether with a voucher system for private schools. Combining decades of experience in education, the authors propose an innovative approach to solving the problems of our school system and find a middle ground between these extremes.
"Reinventing Public Education" shows how contracting would radically change the way we operate our schools, while keeping them public and accessible to all, and making them better...