Books written by James Tooley
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Educational Equality
Freedman, S. and Horner, S. (2008) School Funding and Social Justice (London: Policy Exchange). Gewirtz, S., Ball, S.J. and Bowe, R. (1995) Markets, Choice and Equity in Education (Buckingham: Open University Press).
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Education, War and Peace: The Surprising Success of Private Schools in War-Torn Countries
... Burton Professor Forrest Capie Professor Steven NS Cheung Professor Tim Congdon Professor Christopher Coyne Professor N F R Crafts Professor David de Meza Professor Kevin Dowd Professor David Greenaway Dr Ingrid A Gregg Dr Samuel ...
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Reclaiming Education
And Sir Arthur similarly comments that “The great mass of the nation was illiterate. In 1869 only one British child in two was receiving any education at all.' (Bryant 1953 ...
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E. G. West
307–16. Ferris, J.S., and West, E.G. (2002) Education Vouchers, the Peer Group Problem and the Question of Dropouts, Southern Economic Journal, vol. 68, no. 4, pp. 774–93. Grossman, P., and West, E.G. (1994) Federalism and the Growth of ...
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The Miseducation of Women
This step in her argument is spelled out by looking at Carol Gilligan's work on alternative moral voices. Carol Gilligan was the first Professor of Gender Studies at Harvard University, who in 1982 published a now celebrated work, ...
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Really Good Schools: Global Lessons for High-Caliber, Low-Cost Education
But where should we turn to find them? Enter James Tooley's Really Good Schools.
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The Miseducation of Women
Girls and boys are different. So why do our schools insist on treating them as identical? Bringing together many women's voices, Tooley challenges education's sacred cows, demanding a radical rethinking of sexual politics.
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Really Good Schools: Global Lessons for High-Caliber, Low-Cost Education
"James Tooley has taken his argument about the transformative power of low-cost private education to a new and revelatory level in Really Good Schools. This is a bold and inspiring manifesto for a global revolution in education.
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From Village School to Global Brand: Changing the World through Education
The book is a journey through time - tracing the company from its humble origins in 1886 Mount Lebanon, through the civil war to the present day.
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The Global Education Industry: Lessons from Private Education in Developing Countries
The first edition of this pioneering book produced surprising conclusions from research around the world into the extent of private education. James Tooley challenged the prevailing wisdom that private education...
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What America Can Learn from School Choice in Other Countries
In this collection, scholars from Europe, South America, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, and the United States examine other countries’ experiences with school choice and draw out critical lessons for America.
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The Beautiful Tree: A personal journey into how the world's poorest people are educating themselves
... most excluded, and to girls—and there could be ways of ensuring this (see below)—and if their quality, already higher than the government alternative, can be improved through judicious support (again, see below) ... 200 THE BEAUTIFUL TREE.
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Disestablishing the School: De-Bunking Justifications for State Intervention in Education
... choice according to Rawls is the third scheme. ... The problem with the first two schemes is that there is some chance ... society to choose, because then you would have at least some chance of surviving. If the figure was 1000, then you ...
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What America Can Learn from School Choice in Other Countries
"The book is, in part, the product of the May 2004 Cato Institute conference, 'Looking Worldwide : What America Can Learn from School Choice in Other Countries'"--Introduction.
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What America Can Learn from School Choice in Other Countries
This book draws out the critical lessons for U.S. policymakers and shows how freedom to choose schools and healthy competition among schools can create strong academic success.