Sentences with phrase «how systems of school choice»

Some charter schools pursuing socioeconomic integration have shown how systems of school choice can be used to foster diversity as an alternative to redrawing attendance zones.

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Other announcements expected include reform of the system for diagnosing and helping children with special educational needs to give parents more choice in how they are schooled; reforms to the family justice system to speed up care proceedings so no cases take more than six months; and promised changes to the adoption system to make sure parents and children are matched more quickly.

Choosing Schools «most unique contribution is to evaluate systems of school choice in terms of how they could serve various public interests - namely, the degree to which a system of choice can promote equity, student achievement, and social capital (or social connectedness).

Though vague on how the city's choice system had contributed to the problem, the report implied that because a small number of schools were serving a disproportionate share of «high need» students, their likelihood of failure had increased.

Her newest book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education, which was published last week by Basic Books, is the result of that effort.

The promise of a personalized education system is enormous: we are witnessing an era when new school models and structures, often supported by technology, can tailor learning experiences to each student and allow students more choice in how they access and navigate those experiences.

This superb short report by Lake and Schnaiberg on special education in NOLA shows how a system of choice and autonomous schools can, if wisely organized, offer improved services to high - need kids.

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Policymakers continue to wrestle with the question of how best to regulate systems of school choice.

«This test mania has gotten completely out of control,» says Diane Ravitch, research professor of education at New York University and author of the 2010 book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education.

And here in New York, we're joined by Diane Ravitch, the former assistant secretary of education under President George H.W. Bush, historian of education, best - selling author of over 20 books, including Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools, as well as The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education.

All of which makes one thing obvious: The only system of learning compatible with a truly free society is not one of government domination, but one rooted in educational choice — public education, not schooling — in which the public assures that all people can access education, but parents are free to choose their children's schools and educators are free to educate how they wish.

Surely there are risks associated with drawing private schools into public accountability systems, but empirical evidence shows that downsides can be mitigated if policymakers are smart about how they design results - based accountability in choice programs of this kind.

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The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education

And as Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos settles into her new post, her unbridled support for school choice and vouchers has electrified debate once again over how — and if — such provisions should fit into an American school system that many see as deeply flawed.

This book, which showed how politics undermines the effective organization of schools and argued the advantages of a choice - based education system, attracted so much attention that we were stunned.

The Portfolio Network meeting is an annual gathering of innovative district, charter school, community, and civic leaders from across the country who are figuring out how to run and oversee autonomous schools of choice in ways that ensure all families have good options and the system operates fairly.

In a recently published article «Public School Choice and Racial Sorting: An Examination of Charter Schools in Indianapolis» I look at this issue by examining how racial diversity changes for students who switch into a charter school from the traditional public school system in Indianapolis, InSchool Choice and Racial Sorting: An Examination of Charter Schools in Indianapolis» I look at this issue by examining how racial diversity changes for students who switch into a charter school from the traditional public school system in Indianapolis, Inschool from the traditional public school system in Indianapolis, Inschool system in Indianapolis, Indiana.

«I thought it was disgraceful,» said Diane Ravitch, a former federal education official and author of the bestselling book «The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education.»

Ms. Ravitch says very badly, maybe even worse than before, and her view, elaborated in a new book — «The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice are Undermining Education» — has been getting a good deal of attention, including from Congress, which she was off to visit this week.

It is as if Steve Perry was using Diane Ravitch's «The Death And Life Of The American School System: How Testing And Choice Are Undermining Education» as a play book to guide him.

«It means an education system which caters for the very different talents and potential of different children - whether it's technical education, maths schools or whether it's giving local communities a choice over how selection works at local level.

Hyslop writes that under the new system, the choices individual states made about how to design an accountability system mattered less than the fact the federal government dictated states intervene in 15 percent of Title I schools.

But France's system is a cautionary tale of how a country can offer an expansive private school choice system, but still fail to achieve equity.

We at the California Charter Schools Association will continue to work with our members to help educate parents and the public about how best to navigate the transition from a command and control system of education to one where parents make well - informed choices between an abundance of quality options.

New York Review of Books book review by Diane Ravitch, author of «The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education,» which will be published in June

Diane Ravitch, a research professor of education at New York University, is the author of «The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education.»

How did these choices not only reflect but also construct specific visions of the American school system?

The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education Diane Ravitch 2010

She is the author of many books including: The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education (2010).

The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education and Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools, by Diane Ravitch

This report examines the experience of parents in cities with multiple public school options to answer the question, how can civic leaders create a choice system that works for all families?

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Diane Ravitch has exposed many cases of education wonder drugs or silver bullets in her outstanding must - read book The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education and other writings.

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She is the author of several books, including The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education (2010).

Nevertheless, while Detroit's district schools are so bad that it's not a very high bar, Detroit does show how even a significantly regulated system of school choice can outperform the government's system of district schools.

The release of Diane Ravitch's new book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education, caused quite a stir in the education community because in it Ravitch does an about - face, criticizing the education policies she had fully supported over the years, including when she served as assistant secretary of education and counselor to Education Secretary Lamar Alexander from 1991 to 1993.

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Given that schools in choice systems focus marketing efforts on affluent parents because of the social capital that they can offer (Cucchiara, 2008), we're led to the question: Are schools aware of how these parents think about theme?

This essay attempts to explain how the individual choices which led to suburbanization, «white - flight» and «shopping for schools» has contributed to the persisting racial segregation of the American education system.

While there are clear exceptions to the generalizations I will make in this analysis, I have chosen to focus on charter schools that exemplify a trend of exclusion that compromises the ideals of the school choice system as a whole, demonstrating how the model fails to measure up to the paragon of student and parent autonomy lauded by choice proponents.