Research Shows that
School Choice Works May 31, 2016 by Grant Callen School choice programs provide families with life - changing options in where they send their children to school.
Not exact matches
After -
school care
may be a good child care
choice for a
work - at - home parent's family, even if one of the reasons to
work at home is spending more time with family.
If you have to go right back to
work or
school, or you just want to breastfeed some of the time and bottle feed some of the time, then partial breastfeeding or partial weaning
may be the right
choice for you.
Unfortunately, many kids have no
choice but to be home alone, since they
may have to wait for a parent to get home from
work after
school.
Leveraging the ubiquity of the Internet, course
choice policy gives many students a selection of electives, language courses, and AP courses that their
schools do not have the capacity to provide or
may not provide at times that
work with the rest of a students» schedule.
Given the widespread existence of
choice and competition in K - 12 education, it is demonstrably wrong to suppose, as Forum contributor Frederick M. Hess does («The
Work Ahead «-RRB-, that «Efforts to cultivate competition
may thus foster a culture of
schooling that is alien to our educational heritage and
may create an incentive structure that distorts educational priorities.»
Artists on these rosters will have valuable experience
working with
schools and developing successful residencies, and
may be the best
choice for a first residency.
He ultimately concludes that promoting
school choice «
may be a distraction from the hard
work of fixing the district's
schools.»
Instead of promoting
choice and letting the chips fall where they
may, thoughtful leaders in cities across the country know that governments and their partners and
choice advocates have important, challenging
work to do if they want
school choice to truly benefit families in the real world.
Three decades of experimentation with
school choice demonstrate that making it
work requires careful attention to such tasks as ensuring that parents have good information about
school quality and suitable transportation — responsibilities that skeptical local bureaucrats
may dodge.
Much of what's good about today's policy regimen of common standards but independently - operated
schools of
choice is the enhanced capability of
school innovators to strike out in potentially promising directions that
may work well for different kids.
We are a
school of
choice and we offer a specific educational environment which
may work very well for some children and not as well for others.
This
may be for example sports facilities for
schools who are undergoing building
work or lack outdoor space, academic support for staff in departments with new colleagues or where resource development is needed, or gaining support from students or teachers in a key area of the
schools choice such as maths tutoring, language lessons or developing a
school orchestra.
A
school with a traditional structure that provides clear standards and expectations
may be a good
choice for some children, while a
school that allows extra freedom and places more responsibility for learning on the child
may work well for other children.
May I suggest this — As National
School Choice Week just concluded, let us all work together — Dallas ISD and the charter community — to bring high quality schools of choice to our scholars, whether they be in an ISD or charter s
School Choice Week just concluded, let us all work together — Dallas ISD and the charter community — to bring high quality schools of choice to our scholars, whether they be in an ISD or charter s
Choice Week just concluded, let us all
work together — Dallas ISD and the charter community — to bring high quality
schools of
choice to our scholars, whether they be in an ISD or charter s
choice to our scholars, whether they be in an ISD or charter
schoolschool.
Forest, the state's lieutenant governor, also said educational
choice options are designed to offer solutions, and that means that the virtual
schools may not
work for everyone but can make differences in the lives of some students.
The public shows far greater tolerance for tests whose scores
may yield things we crave — admission to the college of one's
choice, for example (SAT, ACT), even advance credit for college
work (AP)-- than for the kind whose foremost purpose is to rank
schools or teachers and give distant officials data by which to fine - tune their policies.
Currently, there are three exceptions when a student
may be given preference in their district
choice: students whose siblings attend the
school, students whose parents
work at the
school, and students for whom the
school is in their neighborhood.
Although many of those studies
may not be directly applicable to the American context, they give further evidence that
school choice can and does
work.
Meanwhile, the press release quoted the Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Now (ConnCAN), which was founded by Achievement First's Jonathan Sackler [the same Jonathan Sackler who held a $ 40,000 fundraiser last
May for the political action committee affiliated with Governor Malloy] as saying, «We welcome [the New York charter
school association] and look forward to
working with the Network to further ensure that the voices of communities, families and students who demand more quality public
school choices are heard loud and clear in Connecticut.»