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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Other Authors: Shuls, James V. (Editor), McCluskey, Neal P., 1972- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: 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.