The Empty Aisles of Marketplace Reform.
School Administrator › Vol. 57 Nbr. 10, November 2000
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Free choice of school as means to improve education
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The Empty Aisles of Marketplace Reform.
A decade-long experience with wideopen school choice in New Zealand should serve as a warning to those advocating the same here
Many school reformers today argue that what public schools need is more competition. Force schools to compete for students in an educational marketplace, the argument goes, and everyone will be a winner. Schools will work hard to attract more students. Students and parents will have more options. The overall quality of teaching and learning will rise. Whether this approach will solve the problems of schools serving high proportions of disadvantaged students is an open question--if only because the application of market principles to the delivery of public education has yet to be tested on a large scale in American schools. To be sure, there are a few examples of "controlled choice" systems, such as Cambridge, Mass., and Boston, that give parents a choice of schools, subject to rules governing distribution of students by race or socioeconomic status. But the charter school move...See the full content of this document
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