Charter schools, magnets, and vouchers are gaining in popularity. What of concerns for equity, diversity, and the common public school?

A hard-hitting critique of the results that public school choice can wield, with a look at the history of market approaches to education.

Why charter school can improve the opportunities of individual students, with examples from schools whose students are making academic gains.

A survey of Arizona's many new charter schools reveals that they often fail to admit students with disabilities.

A former principal of a Colorado charter school reflects on her experiences.

Telephone interviews suggest that parents are sophisticated consumers when it comes to selection of schools.

Opinions of friends, cultural norms, and personal beliefs about education play a large part in parents' choice of schools.

A Harvard University project looked at which families exercise choice, whether pro-choice financing arrangements can lead to innovative schools, and whether choice improves student performance.

Yes, they do, concludes this researcher, who compared students' achievement in comprehensive public schools with achievements of those attending magnets, Catholic, and private schools.

The Director of Education for Baltimore's New Compact Schools discusses the problems of urban schools and the need for more African-American teachers.

An urban public school parent fears that programs offering choice of schools will lead to increased racism and class divisions.

Independent researchers explore what went wrong, what went right, and ultimately, why the Tesseract schools in Baltimore floundered.

A review of the many types of privatization strategies and their applications to education—everything from asset sales to user fees, contracts to vouchers.

A profile of those who choose to educate their children at home.

Dual enrollment, instructional assistance, and other ways the Des Moines system partners with its home-schoolers.

It might have been easier to send the kids to the local school, the author suggests, but the accomplishments of his children have made home schooling pay off.

A professor of education preaches innovative strategies at work, then practices them at home with his children.

A nationwide experiment with vouchers resulted in autonomy for municipal schools, but the Social Democratic party is becoming disillusioned with some results.

More than a year after the disaster, Chisholm Elementary School cannot forget.