Sentences with phrase «in school choice debates»

Whereas most of the energy in the school choice debates has focused on vouchers and charter schools, relatively little attention has been paid to another important choice model that serves as many students as charters and has been in existence for longer - magnet schools.

Transportation is rarely mentioned in school choice debates, but it's essential and can be a deal breaker even for parents who get their young children into top schools.

A prominent metaphor that's been in school choice debates for far too long is that any choice program not larded with regulations is the «wild west.»

Whereas most of the energy in the school choice debates has focused on vouchers and charter schools, relatively little attention has been paid to another important choice model that serves as many students as charters and has been in existence for longer — magnet schools.

Parents» reasons for withdrawing their children from public schools are one of the major flashpoints in the school choice debate.

In the school choice debate, we should start with a basic premise: No child should be left behind because of failure of the education distribution system to deliver the best possible opportunity for every child.

In the School Choice Debate, Both Sides Are Right School reformers and backers of traditional public schools are talking past each other

This is not, as the Amish say, «mox nix» (irrelevant); it is an essential question in the school choice debate.

Not exact matches

Such discussions over school lunches and healthy eating echo a larger national debate about the role government should play in individual food choices.

The debate over national school choice policy was on display in Indianapolis Monday as US Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos came to the capital city...

As the debate over school choice heats up once again, in the halls of Congress and in many state capitals, a favorite gambit of defenders of the status quo is to damn such changes as «sure to undermine public education» or «bad for the public schools.»

In the following debate, Jay Greene of the University of Arkansas's Department of Education Reform and Mike Petrilli of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute explore areas of agreement and disagreement around this issue of school choice and school quality.

Gross illuminates the Catholic struggle to create an alternative school system in sober, academic language free of the hysteria surrounding much of the contemporary debate over school choice.

The implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA); debates about a potential large - scale federal school - choice initiative; and deep disagreements about civil rights enforcement continue to captivate — and roil — all of us involved in education policy, in D.C. and around the nation.

It feels like almost everything of note gets lost in debates about whether «school choice works» and amidst hoary claims of «privatization.»

With a new administration taking office, ESSA implementation underway, and the debate over school choice heating up, it can be a challenge to stay abreast of the most important developments in the education field.

Through the stories of these two schools he addresses the meaning of community in multicultural America, the pros and cons of school choice, and what this all means for today's big education policy debates.

President - elect Donald Trump's selection of Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education has renewed the debate about public accountability in school - choice programs.

STANFORD — While the recent debate in Washington, D.C. over the Opportunity Scholarship Program, which serves low - income children, has highlighted a sharp political divide in our nation's capital over school choice, outside the beltway special education voucher programs tell a different story.

Second, these heated debates have led school - choice proponents to pay too little heed to crucial questions of market design and implementation — especially the extent to which reforms have, or have not, created a real market dynamic in education.

Above all, an inordinate number of words and pages are devoted to laying out what is depicted as zealotry and inconsistency among other participants in the debate over school choice, as if that tells one anything about the schools themselves.

But does the evidence have any implications for the school choice debate in America itself?

When they insist that ideas like school choice, performance pay, and teacher evaluations based on value - added measures will themselves boost student achievement, would - be reformers stifle creativity, encourage their allies to lock elbows and march forward rather than engage in useful debate and reflection, turn every reform proposal into an us - against - them steel - cage match, and push researchers into the awkward position of studying whether reforms «work» rather than when, why, and how they make it easier to improve schooling.

The enactment of voucher programs renewed the debate over the role of private school choice in American education.

Concerns about charter schools include them challenging the long - existing status quo (there are more than 4,000 in the U.S.); adding fuel to the debate of vouchers, markets, and choice; and affecting the funding of traditional schools, seemingly pitting charter activists against traditional school educators.

But the debate in Britain over school choice is very different from that in the United States and is mired — as sooner or later everything is in Britain — in arguments over class and privilege.

In the United States, the school - choice debate centers on whether parents should have the right to send their children to the public school of their choice rather...

From creating tradable «enrollment rights» to help integrate schools to providing parents with better school performance information, a new book that aims to stake out a middle ground in the debate over school choice offers ways to enhance the benefits while mitigating the risks.

The contours of elite debate about school choice, however, are not replicated in the larger public.

Florida's voucher program for students in the lowest - rated public schools is unconstitutional, the state supreme court ruled last week in a 5 - 2 decision that friends and foes of private school choice are scrutinizing for its potential impact on voucher debates nationwide.

The debate over a school choice bill in the Missouri legislature has opened a bitter rift among some of the state's top black elected officials.

In this debate, Robert Pondiscio and Peter Cunningham consider how much regulation should accompany government - funded school choice.

I say this as one of the few government administrators openly interested in the rights of low - income families to access non-governmental schools: Absent better systemic answers than those offered by ideologues, publicly funded private school choice for all children will continue to be more of a factor in legislative debates and scholarly conferences than in the homes and neighborhoods of America's youth.

Somewhere in the middle of this policy debate, an estimated 600,000 students nationwide, at least this school year, are taking advantage of free tutoring from providers of their choice because they go to schools...

They are able to focus on abstract goals — like test scores, teacher quality, or school choice — in debates divorced from the challenges of making reforms actually work in situ.

A specific debate rages over what forms of government accountability to impose on private schools participating in choice programs, which already are accountable to parents, who can vote for or against them with their feet.

Much of the debate has turned on whether or not school - choice programs yield improved educational outcomes and what happens to students who are left behind in schools struggling to cope after tax dollars have been diverted elsewhere.

As the debate on school choice heats up next week, I share this post as a voice in support of the nation's public schools, which remain the number 1 choice, a great option for families and communities across the country.

There was a general consensus, however, that in the age of the federal Every Student Succeeds Act, education reporters would do well to see how — or if — national debates impact things such as school choice and spending in states and local communities.

In this new political climate, debates about private - school choice have become less about ideology and more about practical considerations, such as which students will be eligible, which schools will be allowed to participate, and how schools should be held accountable.

Earlier this week, one prominent school choice advocate spoke out against the Nevada plan in a debate hosted by Education Next, an education reform journal.

These last findings suggest that information may actually polarize the debate over charter schools — and could also portend a major shift in the political landscape of school choice, note Howell and West.

Jason Crye of Hispanics for School Choice argued that the way race gets framed in education debates can feel out of step with the real world.

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Others offer interdistrict choice, such as the controversial busing plan currently under debate in St. Louis, which allows students to attend schools in neighboring districts to alleviate segregation concerns or to offer students an escape hatch from failing schools.

One of the biggest debates raging in education policy today is whether schools of choice are serving their fair share of the hardest - to - educate students or abandoning them to traditional public schools.

In the heat of the school choice debate, one of our parents at North Broward Academy of Excellence wants to spread the good news about charter schools.

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Two issues dominate the school choice debate: whether competition would make schools more productive, and whether choice would result in sorting or stratification.

And that is the real question in the ongoing debate about education reform in Philadelphia: School choice is a fact of life for wealthy, mostly white families in Philadelphia.