Beyond Modernity

Thu, 01 Aug 1991 00:00:00 -0400

After Ideology: Recovering the Spiritual Foundation of Freedom
by David Walsh
HarperSanFrancisco, 296 pages, $29.95

The Educational Vise

Mon, 01 Oct 1990 00:00:00 -0400

The widely noted appearance of John Chubb and Terry Moe’s Politics, Markets & America’s Schools reminds us again of the fundamental problem in American educational policy: the disposition in every state to fund the public schools at often lavish levels and to tax citizens accordingly, while at the same time providing little or no tax relief to parents who want their children to attend independent alternatives. Through a process that has been at work for decades, the state-owned institutions get bigger and more bloated, and the independent alternatives are squeezed increasingly, as in a vise. One jaw of the vise is the ever-increasing state and local taxes, especially property taxes, required to support the huge costs of state schools. The other jaw is the need for rising tuition in the independent schools. The upshot of these combined pressures on parental choice is an extremely unfair “competition” whose result is growth in the state-sector proportion of educational activity and shrinkage, often to the point of disappearance, of worthy independent-sector alternatives.

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Fixing America

Sun, 01 Apr 1990 00:00:00 -0500

Straight Shooting: What's Wrong with America and How to Fix It
by john silber
harper and row, 336 pages, $22.50

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