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Published by Dr. Quentin L. Quade,
Blum Center Founder
- NEW BOOK FROM
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FINANCING EDUCATION, THE STRUGGLE BETWEEN GOVERNMENTAL MONOPOLY AND PARENTAL CONTROL (ISBN: 1-56000-255-7; 160 pp., $29.95 - prepaid orders may be sent to Transaction at Rutgers - The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ 08903, 908-445- 2280, FAX 908-445-3138)
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HANDBOOK Paths to Parental Freedom
and School Choice
Table of Contents
Introduction: What We Are Doing and Why
Chapter 1 The Educational Fix We're In and Why We're In It: Policy, Structure and Politics
Chapter 2 The Way Out of the Fix We're In
Chapter 3 Clear Organizational Vision: the Key to Success in Working for School Choice
Chapter 4 School Choice Proposals in the U.S.
Chapter 5 Lessons From Abroad: Nature Takes Her Course
Chapter 6 Common Elements for Particular Forms of School Choice
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PAMPHLETS AND ARTICLES
Subject Category Specific Materials
Introduction
to Blum Center
"The Virgil C. Blum, S.J. Center for Parental Freedom
in Education at Marquette University" (original brochure)
"The Blum Center For Parental Freedom in Education:
Premise, Goals and Methods"
Index of Documents and Services Table of Contents
Introductory
Discussions of
American
Educational Problem
Comprehensive:
"America's Educational Quagmire:
Why We're In It, How to Get Out"
Particular: "A North Star for School Choice"
"A Primer on Educational Choice"
"A Prochoice Education Agenda - The Public School
Monopoly," Crisis, April, 1992
"Educational Policy: Bad for Education and Bad for a Free
Society," first published in First Things, October, 1990
and reprinted as a supplement to the Catholic League
Newsletter, Vol. 17, No. 9, September, 1990
Logical Imperatives
re
Freedom &
Monopoly
"The Automatic Benefits of School Choice," pamphlet and
Business Journal, July 2, 1994; synthesis of essays
in Educational Freedom Reports #7, 8 and 9
Others' Experiences
Germane
to the U.S.
"Lessons from Abroad," a Special Issue of the Blum Center's
Educational Freedom Report #10, June 17, 1994
How the Indefensible
Defends
Itself
"School Choice Advocates Have No Excuse for Frustration,"
Network News & Views, March 1994, Vol. XIII, No. 3
"Editor's View On: The Confusion of Ends and Means,"
Educational Freedom Report #3, November 24, 1993
"Editor's View On: Making Smoke in High Places,"
Educational Freedom Report #1, October 21, 1993
"WATCH YOUR STEP! If School Choice Is So Great,
Why Don't We Have It?" Network News & Views,
Vol. XV, No. 3, March, 1996
"Defending the Indefensible," May, 1996 (response to
articles by John Ryor and Pat Tornillo against vouchers
which appeared in the April, 1996, edition of Florida Tax
Watch's Ideas in Action newsletter)
"Getting the Argument Right," Educational Freedom
Report #32,
February 23, 1996; reprinted in The
Wisconsin Review, Vol. 4, No. 2, July, 1996.
The Rhetorical
Task
Clearing Away
the Smoke
"Smoke Screens - How to Clear the Air on School Choice,"
Wisconsin Interest, Summer/Fall, 1992, Vol. 1, No. 2
"Damn the Labels: Full Speed Ahead,"
Educational Freedom Report #7, March 18, 1994.
"School Choice and School Violence: Trapped Behind
Unlocked Doors?" Educational Freedom, Vol. 28,
No. 1, Fall-winter 1994-1995.
"Fixing American Education Up to Now: Wrong Diagnosis,
Wrong Cure," Network News & Views Vol. XIII,
No. 8, August 1994
"The National Education Association vs America's Parents:
A Look At the NEA Handbook, 1996-1997," 1997.
The Political
Task: Relating
"Roadmap
to Educational Choice:
Choice's
"Natural Constituencies"
Getting There From Here"
to the
Political Process
"All Roads Lead to Educational Choice
Without Financial Penalty"
"Parents Acquiring Choice in Education"
(Wisconsin P.A.C.E. introductory brochure)
"A View On Hanging: Alone or Together," Educational
Freedom Report
Trial Issue #2, September 20, 1993
Specific Constituency Development
Business Community:
"Break the Public School Financing Monopoly,"
Business Journal, December 16, 1991
"Education Reform if You're Serious: Break Monopoly,
Liberate Parents," MMAC Commerce Hotline, July,
1992; reprinted by Wauwatosa Taxpayers Council,
September, 1992
"Educational Choice Might Not Be A Cure-All,
But It Is A Cure," Business Journal, July 2, 1994
Community
of Concern
"Attacking Religious Influence:
Over Ethos
of Today's
The Case of School Choice," 1997.
Government
Schools:
"Ethics in a Pluralistic Society:
The Need for School Choice"
"The Family's Values and Educational Choice"
Published by The Family in America, March 1993,
Vol. 7, No. 3
Roman Catholic
Community:
"Saving Our Schools - Fair Public Policy in Education is
Every Catholic's Responsibility," Columbia, September,
1991; reprinted in Catholic League Newsletter,
December, 1991, Vol. 18, No. 10
"Virgil C. Blum, S.J.: The Believer-as-Citizen," in essay
form and published in the Catholic League Newsletter
as "One Man's Vision and the Catholic League's
Mission: The Believer as Citizen," June, 1993
"School Choice and Parental Freedom: A Challenge
to All Catholics," pamphlet done in May, 1994
"The 'Moral Contracts' of School Choice: Miracle in the
Inner City," videotape with opening and closing remarks
by Quentin L. Quade
"A Catholic Case for Vouchers, Prochoice on Schools,
Time to Rally 'Round," Commonweal, 4/92
"Blaming the Victims: Agony at Holy Cross, Death at
Sacred Heart," Editor's View in Educational Freedom
Report #35, May 24, 1996
Community
of Those
Fearful of
Government:
"Using Fire Without Getting Burnt," Educational
Freedom, 1992,
Vol. 25, No. 2
"Must Tax Dollars Kill School Independence?"
Educational Freedom
Report #14, October 21, 1994;
Network News
& Views, Vol. XIII, No. 12,
December, 1994
"Two Ghastly Specters Confront America's Parents,"
Network News and Views, December 1996.
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