Published Online: May 18, 1988
School Choice: New, More Efficient 'Sorting Machine'?
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Comments Evidence from several recent reports lends weight to an argument advanced by critics of parental-choice programs: that, rather than enhancing the options of poor and minority students, they may be creating new forms of discrimination.
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