And won't that ultimately produce better schools than a government - engineered plan designed specifically to ensure that schools are
n't competing for students?
But letting a few government schools be a little different from the others won't produce meaningful, constant, powerful innovation, especially if charters are kept from
truly competing for students.
Choices for parents who think their kids might benefit from a special program at a school in a nearby school district: In California, some school districts where enrollment was dropping are taking advantage of the state's District of Choice law, which allows districts to
compete for students by offering innovative programs and options that parents want.
I learned that another course on the Virgin was being offered in a different department at Wheaton the same semester; rather than
competing for student attention, both classes quickly filled.
The study, funded by the National Science Foundation, speaks to typical lecture - hall culture in which
professors compete for students» attention with laptops and smartphones.
This change would introduce some much - needed market pressure in this area, as schools would be forced to
compete for students based on the usefulness of their course offerings.
In January 2012, Washington Post education reporter Michael Alison Chandler said school choice has become «a mantra of 21st - century education reform,» citing policies across the country that have traditional public schools
competing for students alongside charter schools and private schools.
Such improvements are to be expected among the many colleges and universities
now competing for students» distance - learning dollars.
The goal of public education in Wisconsin today and in the years to come should be to allow all parents to choose which schools their children attend, require every school to
compete for every student who walks through its doors, and make sure every child has the opportunity to attend a quality school.
The district's leadership could also accelerate the adoption of programs already pioneered by neighboring school districts that have
successfully competed for student enrollment — both in private and charter schools — by increasing options and quality.
Her efforts were largely focused in her home state of Michigan, where 80 percent of state charter schools are run by for - profit entities with little transparency around how those schools spend public money, and charter and traditional schools are wasting scarce
resources competing for students.
Charter school advocates assert they provide more choices to students with special needs, give families the right to choose a school instead of relying on geography and that they force traditional schools to improve
while competing for students.
«Schools are
always competing for students, but I believe that vet schools truly have the best interests of their students at heart,» said DeMeerleer.
Instead, to drive improvement, Mr. Romney would have schools
compete for students in a more market - based approach to quality.
If they make the commitment to land top students — if they attend every «meet the faculty» session, shake a lot of hands, and talk enthusiastically about their own research — junior faculty members can
compete for students with anyone, Mr. Meyer says.
The District of Choice law was meant to encourage districts to
compete for students by offering innovative programs and this - school - fits - my - child options that parents want.
If schools had to
compete for students the same way businesses compete for customers, schools would need to strive toward increasing test scores and better preparing students for the workforce.
The playing field to
compete for students is not level, and nobody in the mayor's office or DOE is taking responsibility for it, preferring to leverage dwindling enrollments by school mergers, closures, and truncations without looking at key underlying problems.
But in order for this to happen, districts must first recognize the need to
compete for students and then make efforts to attract those students, who now have the chance to go elsewhere.
Across all four regions, districts have increased marketing efforts to recruit and
compete for students.
Specifically, we probe whether district officials in urban settings across the country believe they need to
compete for students.
Our first task was to find evidence that district officials recognize incentives associated with
competing for students and meeting parental demand.
Breaking the ironclad link between residence and school attended will, proponents argue, force schools to
compete for students and resources in ways that increase the quality of education provided.
In particular, if high schools have to
compete for their students and revenues because of vouchers or charter schools, they will figure out how best to motivate their staff to improve quality and attract students.
Teachers would be forced to
compete for students.
Across countries and economies, educational performance is unrelated to whether or not schools have to
compete for students.
And Sweden, the one economically advanced Western country with sharp achievement gains, has a national voucher system, which forces schools, including a growing number of educationally and financially successful for - profit schools, to
compete for students.
He ignores the wide body of research suggesting that school - choice policies improve public schools by forcing them to
compete for students that they used to take for granted.
In our proposal, funding must follow students and be weighted to compensate for the extra costs associated with high - need students if schools are to
compete for students and if parents are to have real choice.
The 507 sometimes - D schools do not face the imminent prospect of having to
compete for students.
Administrative staff also realise the need to
compete for students, staff and resources.
Further, proponents argue, by giving parents such choices, traditional public schools will be forced to
compete for students and the funding tied to them.
Increasingly, the foundation became intrigued by different ways to organize schools, including the so - called «portfolio model,» in which different types of independent schools
compete for students and must demonstrate results.
This voucher system would allow market pressures to work their magic, as schools would be forced to improve their quality in order to
compete for students and their voucher dollars.
When schools must
compete for students, they will respond by improving and evolving to meet the demands of «customers» or risk going out of business.
Schools
competing for students will communicate with parents more often.