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Direct linkTooley, James – Education Next, 2005
The accepted wisdom is that private schools serve the privileged. Everyone else, especially the poor, requires public school. The poor, so this logic goes, needs government assistance if they are to get a good education, which helps explain why, in the United States, many school choice enthusiasts believe that the only way the poor can get the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Private Schools, Economically Disadvantaged, Low Income Groups
