Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-206) and index.

Does for-profit education meet the needs of school children? For-profit and privately managed schools benefit children in low-performing districts / Lisa Snell -- For-profit education profits big business, not students / Stephen L. Lendman -- Politics plays a role in evaluating the results of for-profit schools / Keith B. Richburg -- For-profit alternative schools take advantage of failing students / Joel Rubin ; Nancy Cleeland -- Buyers of educational services must be wary if children and taxpayers are to benefit / Chester E. Finn Jr. ; Frederick M. Hess -- Does for-profit education meet the needs of college students? For-profit colleges serve non-traditional students well / Michael Seiden -- For-profit colleges recruit students who are unprepared for college / Joshua Woods -- For-profit education provides practical and convenient instruction / Hans Schatz -- Recruiters for for-profit institutions mislead potential students / Gregory Kutz -- Federal regulations will increase oversight of student debt at for-profit colleges / Katherine Mangu-Ward -- Threat of regulation has led for-profit colleges to reform themselves / The Economist -- Is for-profit education a viable business model? Making a profit from schools requires careful management of costs / Steven F. Wilson -- Profit-seeking educational institutions use dollars efficiently / Neal McCluskey -- Nonprofit charter schools hide for-profit real estate deals / Jennie Smith -- The for-profit business model dominates discourse about education / Thomas Nelson ; Bruce A. Jones -- Public schools rely increasingly on private contractors / Patricia Burch -- What is the future role of for-profit education in the United States? Fully funded school choice will give a role to for-profit education / Scott Franklin Abernathy -- The government seeks to suppress for-profit higher education / Brian Darling -- Voucher programs are key to improving public schools / Greg Forster -- Voucher programs lead to government interference in private schools / Gregory Rome ; Walter Block -- Entrepreneurs are selling e-learning to traditional public schools / Constance Gustke -- The partisan debate over privatization of education will continue / Jeffrey R. Henig.