Sentences with phrase «argument for school choice»

@Warren Terra: The argument for school choice was that the outcomes would be better.

The argument for school choice has been that the subsidisation of places in higher socio - economic schools or the awarding of more scholarships would reduce this problem.

Whatever else you can glean from this experiment, it's a powerful argument for school choice programs that allow families to enroll children in schools outside their zip code.

This, he says, «should be the beginning and the end of the argument for school choice.»

One argument for school choice and competition - driven school improvement is that it might lead schools to provide distinctive options for families — and a better fit between schools and student needs.

Mangrum said she believes lawmakers are using the controversy to hobble public school systems and bolster their argument for school choice expansion and privatization.

Based on science alone, the argument for school choice programs, conclude the authors, is «strong.»

In other words, this is another strong argument for school choice.

In 1989, the country passed a set of ambitious education reforms based on the same arguments for school choice that DeVos and others have made here.

First, there are other compelling non-academic arguments for school choice (e.g., they minimize social conflict by allowing families to get the sort of education they want for their own kids without imposing it on everybody elses, as happens of necessity when there is a single official government organ of education.)

Not exact matches

My point is that this issue is not nearly as black or white as supporters on either side would have us believe; there are valid arguments to be made for eliminating flavored milk from school lunches and for continuing to offer that choice.

With Donald Trump in the White House and long - time school choice advocate Betsy DeVos installed as his education secretary, arguments for and against vouchers and scholarship tax credits are burning white hot.

The Florida Supreme Court heard oral arguments June 7 in a case that could determine the future of school vouchers in the state and set the pace for school choice policies across the nation.

The equity issue, then, seems to matter a great deal to disadvantaged parents, and they appear to connect it to private - school choice in a way that is entirely consistent with the argument voucher advocates have been making for the past decade: that choice is a way of promoting social equity.

In our recent article for Education Next, «Choosing the Right Growth Measure,» we laid out an argument for why we believe a proportional growth measure that levels the playing field between advantaged and disadvantaged schools (represented in the article by a two - step value - added model) is the best choice for use in state and district accountability systems.

That said, for reasons I discussed last week in terms of merit pay, I'm skeptical that research can «settle» arguments regarding complex organizational reforms like school choice.

For two decades now, school - choice supporters have advanced two main arguments.

Yet many of Illich's and Goodman's arguments foreshadowed criticism later taken up by school choice advocates on the Right, where until 1996 the Republican party platform still called for abolishing the Department of Education.

Although the promise and potential of parental choice is nowhere more evident than in the realm of technology, the arguments for allowing students ready access to cyberschools extend to interdistrict school choice, charter schools, private schools, and vouchers as well.

His argument is that for school choice to work, parents have to be rational in making choices:

Much of the argument for parental choice in education has focused on the urgent needs of disadvantaged students, who are often trapped in unsafe and failing schools because of the system of zip - code assignment.

But, if we're going to support our arguments for choice with test scores (using them to show either shortcomings in public schools or the benefits of choice), we have hitched our wagon to them and can't be surprised if people attack vouchers when poor test score results come out.

One key argument has been raised against the movement for school choice: that schools of choice, whether created through charter alternatives or through voucher programs, will undermine the common culture.

We worried that Donald Trump's support for charter schools and school choice would make those issues toxic on the left; growing polarization would sound the death knell for any hope of centrism and bipartisanship, both of which have been essential for the ed - reform project for the better part of two decades; and populist attacks on data and reason would make it that much harder for our arguments to win the day.

Hill and Jochim indicate that students must be protected from discrimination and that the system must work toward equitable outcomes for all students, but provide the faulty argument that school choice leads to greater equity.

Contrary to the arguments of those opposed to school choice, the result of students departing is generally an increased sum of money (per capita) for those students remaining in the public school.

«The newest and one of the most potent arguments for advancing school choice in Pennsylvania has been pressed forward by state Sen. Anthony Williams, D - Philadelphia, and a handful of urban lawmakers who see the issue as the next step in the civil rights movement.»

Certainly one could have expected some response to Thomas B. Fordham Institute research czar Mike Petrilli's compelling and intelligent argument for expanding charter schools and other forms of school choice in suburban districts (an argument made ad nauseam by Dropout Nation and its editors since its revival three years ago).

Contrary to the arguments of some, we find that school choice programs, such as Education Scholarship Accounts and Tax Credit Scholarships, do not harm public schools for the benefit of private schools.

But the AFT will never make that argument because it opens up the door for expanding choice, voucherizing school funding, and putting traditional districts from which the union draws its very existence out of business.

-- ACLU challenges timeline for Nevada Supreme Court's school choice arguments.

DeVos has advocated for school choice, citing American students» slow progress on national and international assessments as an argument against the status quo.

While it is good for the public to be on the lookout for these issues such as «creaming the crop» of students in choice programs such as magnet or charter schools, the Windham STEM is not arena for this argument.

If you care more about salaries, pensions, job security, and perks for a closed class of mostly mediocre people «phoning it in,» there are all kinds of good arguments against school choice.

You're inspired, you're passionate, you've just received your invitation for an in - depth interview and you're ready to sell your experience about why you're going to make an exceptional Fellow, but... BUT you're not really sure why Betsy DeVos was a controversial choice for Secretary of Education, the argument between charter school vs traditional public school vs school vouchers alludes you, and you once thought Common Core was a pilates ab workout.

This is not an argument against school choice; it's an argument for augmenting it.

There are a number of arguments against the charter school, but the arguments for it all seem to boil down to I'll have a choice to send my kids to a place where they don't have to mix with those kids.

At the same time, McDowell's case has also brought up an argument that this is another «predictable» outcry among school choice supporters — who can rally around another case of a poor mother looking to improve education for their kids — who gloss over the more - complex problem of providing education for children of the homeless.

On the Radio 4 Today programme this morning Justine Greening tied herself up in knots trying to argue that grammar schools represented increased choice, an argument which falls apart when you consider one fundamental, and uncomfortable truth, which is that, for those children who fail the 11 +, there is little or no choice at all.

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Several law schools have experimented with introducing foreign and international issues into basic LRW instruction.68 Some have responded to these arguments by creating either upper - class elective seminars with a global LRW focus, 69 or by creating a specialized foreign / international section of the basic LRW course.70 Typically, this has been accomplished in a largely ad hoc fashion through the creative efforts of individual instructors, who sometimes offer a special «international» section of the basic LRW course.71 Additionally, LRW professors whose primary responsibility is to educate foreign students have naturally gravitated toward incorporating global dimensions in their problems and assignments.72 Faculty specializing in teaching legal English have observed that English is increasingly the language of choice for transnational negotiations and legal instruments, even in circumstances where the underlying transactions do not involve Anglo - American law.73 Consequently, they also emphasize a transnational approach that responds to the needs of their students.