Emphasizing the relationship between private choices and public education as they affect the division of labor between public and private non-profit schools, colleges, and universities, contributors to this book focus on the relationship between private and public education in a comparative context.

"The papers collected in this volume are among the most insightful and theoretically sophisticated research ever done on private education."--Teachers College Record "The reader [of this book] learns a good deal about private nonprofit education institutions in the United States and gains an awareness of some of the difficulties in increasing public support and thereby the size of the nonprofit private sector."--Journal of Policy Analysis and Management "The papers collected in this volume are among the most insightful and theoretically sophisticated research ever done on private education."--Teachers College Record "The reader [of this book] learns a good deal about private nonprofit education institutions in the United States and gains an awareness of some of the difficulties in increasing public support and thereby the size of the nonprofit private sector."--Journal of Policy Analysis and Management