Sentences with phrase «of true educational choice»

Interestingly, their school choice programs come much closer to meeting Nobel Laureate Milton Friedman's ideal vision of true educational choice — the ability for all parents to choose the education that's best suited for their children regardless of income or residence — than most U.S. programs.

Not exact matches

Choice generally means charter schools, not true educational pluralism, and our support is limited to schools that are willing to subject themselves to the oversight of an increasingly technocratic movement that lacks the record of accomplishment required to impose its prerogatives.

What they all have in common is an enrollment process open to all students in the district, usually by lottery, to ensure that schools like Bravo don't cream the crop (though it is true that, by dint of applying, students and their families may indicate a higher motivation and sophistication about making educational choices).

Other things equal, I believe giving parents more ability to exercise educational choice is a good thing, and I think this is true above and beyond other measures of performance or quality.

This has never been truer than now, given how much of Trump's educational platform is a blank slate — or one filled with only the broadest of notional directives (e.g. school choice good, Common Core bad).

«Along with our friends at the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, we agree that families are demonstrating the true support for educational choice by virtue of the 3.5 million students in publicly - supported private school choice programs and charter schools around the country.

While it is true that HBCUs arose because African Americans were systematically barred from educational opportunity, the «choice» they represented at their founding was the ONLY choice available to their students and to most of their faculty.

In 2010, Diane Ravitch, a renowned education historian and former Assistant Secretary of Education joined the ranks of true educational experts by publishing a book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System, in which she openly admitted she was wrong about key educational policies she once championed, namely standardized testing and school choice.