Description: Explores the ideological underpinnings of school choice and other market-based education reforms.
Brief description: Kevin B. Smith is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln and the coauthor (with Kenneth J. Meier) of The Case Against School Choice: Politics, Markets, and Fools.
Review Quotes:
"I am impressed with the author's careful delineation of the assumptions underlying various schools of thought and his careful design of empirical tests of these assumptions. He sheds light on a topic of great contemporary political debate-a topic where hot air is more common than fresh. If people want to debate market-based approaches to education seriously rather than just espouse a pet project because it happens to fit their ideological proclivities, they will have to deal with the issues and the evidence Smith brings forth." - Joseph Stewart Jr., coauthor of Public Policy: An Evolutionary Approach, Second Edition