The technocratic approach empowers bureaucrats at the expense of parents, often eliminates their least -
bad educational alternatives, and creates perverse incentives that narrow curricular options.
The technocratic approach would eliminate a family's least -
bad educational alternative, leaving children worse off «for their own good.»
Not exact matches
Of course I was predisposed in that direction because I'm a huge admirer of Eva Moskowitz's Success Academy charter schools — more than 40 of them now, in four boroughs of New York City — which are knocking the top off state test scores and providing terrific
educational alternatives for thousands of youngsters, mostly poor and minority, who would otherwise be stuck in some of the country's
worst urban schools.
This cataloging of
educational alternatives does not imply that all that goes on in the mainstream
educational system is
bad.