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Their data-driven argument is a valuable contribution to a vitally important topic. --Glenn Altschuler Oregonian This important book provides clear evidence that the 'free-market model' of schooling does not match the hype of the privatization movement. It demonstrates that public education is a valuable and successful institution. It must be protected and strengthened, not privatized. --Diane Ravitch, author of Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools Oregonian Public School Advantage is a book to be reckoned with.The calling card of today's leading voices in educational reform is the charge that our public schools are failing. But failing in comparison to what, the Lubienskis ask? Traditional public schools are not failing to keep pace with charters and private schools, at least in teaching students math, one of the two subjects at the heart of No Child Left Behind and the Common Core. On the contrary, traditional public schools in some cases appear to have advantages over other kinds of schools that are usually perceived as more innovative and rigorous. While more empirical work on the public school advantage needs to be completed--in subjects beyond math and grades beyond elementary school--the Lubienskis have launched a strong salvo in the contentious debate about school effectiveness. --Jeffrey Aaron Snyder Boston Review The Public School Advantage is a complete and thorough analysis of America's many different kinds of schools--secular, charter, and public--and should end the arguments about which kind is better. Chris and Sarah Lubienski provide both the data and the clear explanations needed to understand the many false claims made about the superiority of schools that are not public. The result is a ringing endorsement of public school achievement. --David Berliner, author of Collateral Damage: How High-Stakes Testing Corrupts America's Schools Boston Review A powerful blow against the central premise that students at charter and voucher schools get a better education than their public school counterparts. --David Kirp Slate In The Public School Advantage, Christopher and Sarah Lubienski present studies that challenge assumptions of the market-based argument for education and provide a cogent analytical comparison that evaluates public versus private elementary school performance. While questions remain, they provide an important contribution to a timely topic. This book provides empirically based insight about the school choice debate and is worthy of our attention. --William F. Tate, past president of the American Educational Research Association Boston Review The author's conclusions make a strong case for the continued investment in public schools and for resisting market-driven approaches. --Diane Ravitch, author of Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools School Administrator

This important book provides clear evidence that the 'free-market model' of schooling does not match the hype of the privatization movement. It demonstrates that public education is a valuable and successful institution. It must be protected and strengthened, not privatized. --Diane Ravitch, author of The Death and Life of the Great American School System

This important book provides clear evidence that the free-market model of schooling does not match the hype of the privatization movement. It demonstrates that public education is a valuable and successful institution. It must be protected and strengthened, not privatized. --Diane Ravitch, author of Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools

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Christopher A. Lubienski is professor in the Department of Education Policy, Organization, and Leadership at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is coeditor of The Charter School Experiment and School Choice Policies and Outcomes. Sarah Theule Lubienski is professor and associate dean of the Graduate College in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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