An important article detailing how the conservative fervor for "school choice" has suddenly vanished in the last couple years, in the face of both right-wing organizational difficulties and the increasingly obvious fact that voucher programs don't work.

The conclusions of this article are consistent with the impression I got in Politics of American Education fall semester -- although this author is much more willing to call a spade a spade than Professor Peterson, who was evenhanded to a fault in his teaching.

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