DeAngelis is one of the nation's leading authorities on school choice and homeschooling. He has authored or co-authored 32 peer-reviewed studies and more ...

The Parent Revolution: Rescuing Your Kids from the Radicals Ruining Our Schools

This volume of essays examines the empirical evidence on school choice in different countries across Europe, North America, sub-Saharan Africa, and South Asia. It demonstrates the advantages that choice offers in different institutional contexts, whether it be Free Schools in the UK, voucher systems in Sweden, or private-proprietor schools for low-income families in Liberia. Everywhere experience suggests that parents are ‘active choosers’: they make rational and considered decisions, drawing on available evidence and responding to incentives that vary from context to context. Government educators frequently downplay the importance of choice and try to constrain the options parents to have. But they face increasing resistance: the evidence is that informed parents drive improvements in school quality. Where state education in some developing countries is particularly bad, private bottom-up provision is preferred even though it costs parents money which they can ill-afford.
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