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Privatizing Education: Can the Marketplace Deliver Choice, Efficiency, Equity, and Social Cohesion? (Book Reviews).
Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 2001 (372 pp)
Reviewed by Patrice Sutton Burger, manager, GFOA Research and Consulting Center, Chicago, Illinois.
Because of the importance of education in modern society, the quality of educational services will always be of interest and concern. However, there is a great disparity of opinions when it comes to the methods of delivering such services. On one end of the spectrum, there are those who believe that parents should be the decision makers in educational issues, not the government. They feel that the only answer to today's problems in education is to encourage private-sector involvement and to ensure ...
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