Volume 47, Number 16 · October 19, 2000
Paroxysms of Choice
By Howard Gardner
Charter Schools in Action: Renewing Public Education
by Chester E. Finn Jr., by Bruce V. Manno, by Gregg Vanourek
Princeton University Press, 290 pp., $27.95
When Schools Compete: A Cautionary Tale
by Edward B. Fiske, by Helen F. Ladd
Brookings Institution Press, 342 pp., $18.95 (paper)
Inside Charter Schools: The Paradox of Radical Decentralization
edited by Bruce Fuller
Harvard University Press, 276 pp., $29.95
A Legacy of Learning: Your Stake in Standards and New Kinds of Public Schools
by David T. Kearns, by James Harvey. with a foreword by George Bush
Brookings Institution Press, 226 pp., $24.95
The Market Approach to Education: An Analysis of America's First Voucher Program
by John F. Witte
Princeton University Press, 221 pp., $29.95
The decade of the 1950s in the United States can seem eerily familiar to us now. It was also a period of unparalleled prosperity for most Americans, a time when America seemed the unquestionable master of the world. Americans showed little interest in international affairs or in politics generally, preferring to live comfortably in their suburbs, to upgrade their cars and other possessions regularly, and to enjoy the continual display of sports and entertainment on their television sets.
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