Argues that, while vouchers and tax credits differ in important ways, together they raise profound questions about the role of the government in supporting, encouraging, and, perhaps, controlling private values and private organizational forms. (Author/SJL)

The relationship between the decline of value-centered education in the 1960s and 1970s and the decline of academic standards is discussed. The question of the moral dimensions of learning and how values and the transfer of knowledge are irrevocably linked are explored. (Author/MLW)

The author examines private schools: their origins, the current rise in new private schools and private school enrollment, student ethnic and racial characteristics, private education function, the federal government's role in private education, and future outlook for private education. (CT)

Research needs to be conducted to find out why parents send their children to private schools. The public schools must be willing to adopt the desirable qualities of private schools that are adaptable to the public sector. (Author/IRT)

Tax credits and vouchers raise questions about the relationship between schooling and society: the tension between professional and parent, the role and place of values in education, the extent to which private schools should receive government aid, and the extent to which such aid might lead to government control of private schools. (MLW)

Although in the late 1960s and early 1970s, there was a precipitous decline in private school enrollment, this trend has reversed itself. The function of schooling as one of socialization or education is debated. The roles of government and religion in education are discussed. (JN)

Americans rate improving schools as a higher priority than lowering crime or improving the economy, but neither Republicans nor Democrats have strong proposals. Most of the money needed to improve the situation is already in place via federal Title I education funds. Title I could be turned into a voucher program, making it a federal education…

Examines the private sector's historic role in human capital investment, emphasizing its contemporary interest in public education and the workforce. Private sector philanthropy is currently an issue of survival to public education. An important private sector role is to act as a political catalyst to push through essential educational reform. (SM)

This essay offers a preliminary examination of public support for private elementary and secondary education as it is incorporated into the systems of Denmark, Australia, and Holland. Its purpose is to stimulate American thinking about family choice systems. After a brief introduction on the ad hoc quality differentials in American public…