Böcker av Kevin B. Smith

In this landmark book, Kevin B. Smith explains how the United States became the world's biggest jailer and examines the social, economic, and political costs we all bear as a result. If we're to improve civic cohesion, economic prospects, and political engagement, we must all address this problem.

Explores the ideological underpinnings of school choice and other market-based education reforms.

Provides a consistent and coherent framework for uniting the field of public policy. The authors offer a comprehensive overview of the core questions and concepts, major theoretical frameworks, primary methodological approaches, and key controversies and debates in each subfield of policy studies from the policy process and policy analysis.

A comprehensive and cohesive overview of the core questions, major theoretical frameworks and key debates in the field of policy studies.

This discussion of public school choice considers school choice at all levels. It argues that choice programmes: promote inequity rather than improved quality; are expensive; require a large bureaucracy to administer; and do not necessarily lead to better education.