Fighting for the freedom to learn : examining America's centuries-old school choice movement /
The school choice movement is often seen as a modern, partisan undermining of a cherished institution, public education. Fighting for the Freedom to Learn sets the record straight, revealing that the struggle for educational freedom is as old as America itself and rooted in a deep and enduring tradi...
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Washington, D.C. :
CATO Institute,
[2025].
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / James V. Shuls and Neal P. McCluskey
- The years before common schooling / Jane Shaw Stroup
- Developing a strong education system in the diverse Mid-Atlantic / William H. Jeynes
- Education funding prior to the advent of the common school / Dick M. Carpenter II
- Emergence of the common school ideology / Charles L. Glenn
- Against the common school: three centuries of arguments / Ashley Rogers Berner
- Not common at all: the education of Black Americans / Cheryl Fields-Smith
- Where did choice go? Pluralism in education from 1880-1955 / Neal P. McCluskey
- From common schools to parental school choice ? / Matthew H. Lee
- Educational freedom: a civil rights issue of their time / James V. Shuls
- The progressive case for school choice / Ron Matus
- The legal arc of school choice / Nicole Stelle Garnett
- The universal choice explosion / Jason Bedrick.