As framing home ownership as the embodiment of the «American Dream» stoked the zeal behind subprime loans, a buzzword like «school choice» fuels charter expansion, making it difficult to create space for
a reasonable national discussion about accountability.
In addition to providing
reasonable benchmarks for individual schools and districts using StudentTracker reports, we believe it also makes a significant contribution to
discussions about equitable access to, and persistence in, postsecondary education amongst practitioners and policymakers at the school, district, state, and
national levels.