Praise for Choosing Equality
"... Viteritti has combed the cumulative literature on school vouchers and constructed an argument that is both sensible and sensitive..." -- Philanthropy, November/December 1999
"... makes a compelling case for giving needy children the chance to escape failing schools." -- Council for American Private Education Outlook, March 2000
"... the potential to unite both the left and the right political constituencies supporting school choice. An intellectual tour de force." -- School Reform News, May, 2000
"...passionately argued polemic in favor of school choice..." -- Publisher's Weekly, January 3, 2000
“Viteritti makes the egalitarian argument for educational choice with such reasoned and measured passion — as Eugene Volokh put it to me, Viteritti is ‘in your face with a breath mint’ — that I feel churlish even hesitating before embracing it.” Richard W. Garnett, Constitutional Commentary, 2000.
"Choosing Equality presents a strong case for school choice schemes aimed at low income families." -- Stephen S. Sugarman, Teachers College Record, March 21, 2000
"If there is a more thorough and thoughtful argument for school choice, I am unaware of it." -- National Review, March 20, 2000
"Viteritti offers an up-to-date account of a phenomenon that has been rapidly changing..." -- Jeffrey Henig, Political Science Quarterly, fall, 2000
"When school choice takes its proper place in the history of American reform movements... [this] will be a key text." -- Public Interest, spring 2000
"a remarkably fresh perspective on the issue of school choice that should shift the policy debate in healthy new directions."
John E. Chubb, author, Politics, Markets and America's Schools
" This is a thought-provoking and essential book"
Alan Wolfe, Boston College
"Finally a roadmap for those who dare to act on the truth."
Lisa Grahaam Keegan, Superintendent of Public Instruction, State of Arizona
"Calmly reasoned yet passionately felt, Choosing Equality must be reconed with by all partisans in the growing debate over school choice."
Samuel G. Freedman, Columbia University