Choice And Competition In American Education Book

Sect. I	The profit motive : will it benefit kids?
	Introduction : the use of market incentives in education	3
1	The private can be public	13
2	The costs of privatization	23
Sect. II	The education profession
3	Regulations do more harm than good	33
4	In defense of regulation	43
5	We need new types of administrators	55
6	New leaders : will public schools hire them?	69
7	Fringe benefits : AFT and NEA teacher salary surveys	79
8	Low pay, low quality	93
9	The case for merit pay	102
10	Wage compression and the decline in teacher quality	111
11	A union by any other name	123
12	Reform unionism is here	136
Sect. III	School choice
13	Charter schools : mom and pops or corporate design	149
14	Charter school politics	161
15	A school built for Horace : tales from a start-up charter school	172
16	The impact of vouchers on student performance	183
17	Do vouchers and charters push public schools to improve?	194
18	School choice and social cohesion	206
19	How vouchers came to D.C.	219
20	Contracting out : the story behind Philadelphia's Edison contract	233
21	Home schooling : the nation's fastest-growing education sector	243
22	School choice in No Child Left Behind	255
23	Selling supplemental services	265