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“THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENT IN EDUCATION” REVISITED: THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF VOUCHERS, WITH POINTERS TO ANOTHER SOLUTION FOR AMERICAN EDUCATION

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 December 2014

James Tooley
James Tooley*
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Education Policy, Newcastle University
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Social Philosophy and Policy , Volume 31 , Issue 1 , January 2014 , pp. 204 - 228
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References

1 This approach emanates from Milton Friedman (Friedman “The Role of Government in Education,” in Economics and the Public Interest, ed. Robert A. Solo [New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press,1955]).

2 Allison, John The Financial Crisis and the Free Market Cure (New York: McGraw Hill, 2013), 233.Google Scholar

3 Ibid., 234; 247; 235.

4 Tooley, James, E. G. West: Economic Liberalism and the Role of Government in Education (London and New York: Continuum, 2008)Google Scholar, chap. 4.

5 Tooley, James, Disestablishing the School (Aldershot: Avebury Press, 1995);Google Scholar Tooley, James, Reclaiming Education (London: Cassell, 2000)Google Scholar; Tooley, E. G. West: Economic Liberalism.

6 Tooley, James, From Village School to Global Brand: Changing the World Through Education (London: Profile Books, 2012)Google Scholar, chaps. 4 and 5.

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10 Ibid.

11 Ibid.

12 Ibid., 89.

13 Ibid.

14 Ibid.

15 Ibid., emphasis added.

16 Friedman, Epilogue, 157.

17 Ibid., 156.

18 Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice, The ABCs of School Choice: The Comprehensive Guide to Every Private School Choice Program in America (Indianapolis: Friedman Foundation, 2013), 5.

19 Friedman Foundation, The ABCs of School Choice, 6.

20 All Population figures derived from http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/index.html. All School Choice figures from Friedman Foundation, The ABC’s of School Choice, 2013.

21 Tooley, E. G. West.

22 Ibid., 225.

23. Ibid.

24. Ibid.

25. Ibid., 225–26.

26. Ibid., chap. 4.

27. Friedman Foundation, The ABCs of School Choice, 3.

28 Ibid., 13.

29 Ibid., 3.

30 All Population figures derived from http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/index.html. All School Choice figures from Friedman Foundation, The ABC’S of School Choice.

31 Friedman Foundation, The ABCs of School Choice, 3.

32 Friedman Foundation, 35.

33 Ibid., 55.

34 All Population figures derived from http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/index.html. All School Choice figures from Friedman Foundation, The ABCs of School Choice.

35 Note: All Population figures derived from http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/index.html. All School Choice figures from Friedman Foundation, The ABCs of School Choice.

36 Tooley, From Village School to Global Brand.

37 Enlow and Ealy, Liberty and Learning.

38 Milton Friedman, “Prologue: A Personal Retrospective,” in Enlow and Ealy, Liberty and Learning, ix.

39 Friedman, “Prologue,” ix.

40 Ibid.

41 Ibid., x.

42 Friedman, “Epilogue,” 156.

43 Ibid., 157.

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47 Ibid.

48 Ibid.

49 Ibid.

50 Ibid., emphases added.

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53 Friedman and Friedman, Free to Choose, 197.

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56 Friedman and Friedman, Free to Choose, 187–88.

57 Tooley, E. G. West.

58 Friedman and Friedman, Free to Choose, 196, emphasis added.

59 Ibid., 196–97, emphasis added.

60 Ibid., 197.

61 Ibid.

62 West, Non-Public School Aid.

63 Milton Friedman, University of Chicago, to Mr. George Pearson, Center for Independent Education, Wichita, Kansas, in E. G. West Archives.

64 All Population figures derived from http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/index.html. All School Choice figures from Friedman Foundation, The ABC’s of School Choice.

65 Tooley, James, “Challenging Educational Injustice: Grassroots privatisation of education in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa,” Oxford Review of Education 39, no. 4 (2013): 446–63CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Tooley, James, “Moving From Educational Equality to Improving the Education of the Least Advantaged,” in Brighouse, Harry, Tooley, James, and Howe, Kenneth R., Educational Equality (London and New York: Continuum, 2010), 96–129.Google Scholar

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69 Tooley, E. G. West.

70 Published as Tooley, James, “Educating Amaretch: Private Schools for the Poor and the New Frontier for Investors,” Economic Affairs 27, no. 2 (2007): 37–43.CrossRefGoogle Scholar