ERIC Number: EJ621324
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2001
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ISSN: ISSN-0031-7217
Privatizing Education: The Politics of Vouchers.
Kennedy, Sheila Suess
Phi Delta Kappan, v82 n6 p450-56 Feb 2001
The voucher "air war" is a conflict between two longstanding elements of the American political tradition: a time-honored commitment to maximum personal choice and individual freedom versus an equally compelling belief in need for a common civil infrastructure and communitarian interests. Will embracing vouchers further erode the public interest? (Contains 37 references.) (MLH)
Descriptors: Accountability, Civil Liberties, Democratic Values, Educational Vouchers, Elementary Secondary Education, Free Enterprise System, Ideology, Individualism, Industrialization, Marketing, Mass Media, Political Influences, Political Parties, Politics of Education, Privatization, School Choice, State Church Separation, United States History
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Communitarianism; Democratic Party; Pragmatism; Republican Party
