TY - GEN N2 - Americans today choose from a dizzying array of schools, loosely lumped into categories of 'public' and 'private'. How did these distinctions emerge in the first place, and what do they tell us about the more general relationship in the United States between public authority and private enterprise? 'Public vs. Private' describes how nineteenth-century public policies fostered the rise of modern school choice. AB - Americans today choose from a dizzying array of schools, loosely lumped into categories of 'public' and 'private'. How did these distinctions emerge in the first place, and what do they tell us about the more general relationship in the United States between public authority and private enterprise? 'Public vs. Private' describes how nineteenth-century public policies fostered the rise of modern school choice. T1 - Public vs. private :the early history of school choice in America / AU - Gross, Robert N., CN - Oxford Scholarship Online CN - LB1027.9 ID - 808546 KW - School choice KW - Public schools KW - Private schools KW - Education SN - 9780190644604 TI - Public vs. private :the early history of school choice in America / LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190644574.001.0001 UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190644574.001.0001 ER -