“Professor Merrifield asks this question: what is meant by and what is the intended consequence of reforms bearing such labels as vouchers, school choice, charter schools, privatization, and competition? This book brilliantly and clearly exposes the superficiality and extraordinary fuzziness of those labels.”

– Seymour B. Sarason, Professor Emeritus of Psychology, Yale University

“In School Choices, Merrifield has produced a scholarly call-to-arms...deserves serious consideration by the strategists of the choice movement.”

– Eric A. Hanuskek, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution

“It is always important to subject movements to re-evaluation, so School Choices: True and False is a useful publication . . . This monograph reminds us of the ultimate goal, which is universal choice. This is a valuable contribution.”

– Clint Bolick, Vice President, Institute for Justice

“Creating an authentic market is one necessary condition of ending the servitude of the working class and the poor to the government schools. . . . As Professor Merrifield well knows, the integrity of the family and its contractual authority over curriculum and method are foundational objects that will require prudence in selection of policy measures. So understood and domesticated, his book, School Choices, is an important and very timely contribution.”

– John E. Coons, Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley

“School Choices is a provocative and first rate analysis of how the school choice idea has been dumbed down and what it will take to develop the critical elements of a competitive education industry.”

– Bruno V. Manno, former Assistant Secretary of Education for Policy and Planning, U.S. Department of Education

“Professor Merrifield asks this question: what is meant by and what is the intended consequence of reforms bearing such labels as vouchers, school choice, charter schools, privatization, and competition? This book brilliantly and clearly exposes the superficiality and extraordinary fuzziness of those labels.”

– Seymour B. Sarason, Professor Emeritus of Psychology, Yale University

“In School Choices, Merrifield has produced a scholarly call-to-arms...deserves serious consideration by the strategists of the choice movement.”

– Eric A. Hanuskek, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution

“It is always important to subject movements to re-evaluation, so School Choices: True and False is a useful publication . . . This monograph reminds us of the ultimate goal, which is universal choice. This is a valuable contribution.”

– Clint Bolick, Vice President, Institute for Justice

“Creating an authentic market is one necessary condition of ending the servitude of the working class and the poor to the government schools. . . . As Professor Merrifield well knows, the integrity of the family and its contractual authority over curriculum and method are foundational objects that will require prudence in selection of policy measures. So understood and domesticated, his book, School Choices, is an important and very timely contribution.”

– John E. Coons, Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley

“School Choices is a provocative and first rate analysis of how the school choice idea has been dumbed down and what it will take to develop the critical elements of a competitive education industry.”

– Bruno V. Manno, former Assistant Secretary of Education for Policy and Planning, U.S. Department of Education