Public Dollars and Public Values

Martha Minow sees potential in privatization, but says skeptics should still worry

At the end of June, Martha Minow sat down to digest the U.S. Supreme Court's opinions in Zelman v. Simmons-Harris, the 5-4 decision that upheld the constitutionality of Cleveland's school-voucher system.

It was a ruling that Ms. Minow, a 47-year-old professor at Harvard Law School, had expected with a great deal of ambivalence. For several years, she has explored the merits and demerits of

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