Sentences with phrase «public and private schools casts»
Moreover, the similarity of trends in public and private schools casts doubt on explanations that emphasize the failure of public schools to match growth in parental demand for teacher quality.
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On the campaign trail, Ellison spoke against public charter schools and private school vouchers, casting them both as a Bush administration plan to weaken public schools.
Kathryn Newmark and Veronique de Rugy's brief mention of the comparatively rapid rebound of Catholic schools in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina («Hope after Katrina,» features, Fall 2006) casts the private school sector as «more nimble» than the public system.
Professor Alan Reid observes how the emphasis on democratic purposes has been trumped by individual, private purposes that result in such things as marketing of schools, residualisation of public education and the growth in disparity of resources between schools, and by an economic purpose that casts students as human capital to be enlisted in the cause of economic recovery and growth.
It would be unfair to cast those results as more than they are: In the public and private domain, some schools do well, others do not.
Meanwhile, despite the fact that many «reformers»» policies have spectacularly failed, prompted massive scandals and / or offered no actual proof of success, an elite media that typically amplifies — rather than challenges — power and money loyally casts «reformers»» systematic pillaging of public education as laudable courage (the most recent example of this is Time magazine's cover cheering on wildly unpopular Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel after he cited budget austerity to justify the largest mass school closing in American history — all while he is also proposing to spend $ 100 million of taxpayer dollars on a new private sports stadium).
Tuition vouchers and similar plans make the playing field more unlevel by continuing to permit private schools to cast aside the immutable rights of students in public schools even when they accept public funding.