Their rhetoric on school choice is classic double - talk and sends mixed messages to their members and the public at large.
Not exact matches
«The
rhetoric we hear from the Trump people, «
Choice is good, and
school districts are bad,» sets us back a decade,» Robin Lake, director of the Center
on Reinventing Public Education, told journalist Richard Whitmire.
That's the message of a report by the National Working Commission
on Choice in K - 12 Education, which spent two years trying to get beyond divisive political
rhetoric and figure out how best to give parents
choices among
schools receiving public money.
Lead author of
Rhetoric vs. Reality: What We Know and What We Need to Know About Vouchers and Charter
Schools, he has published in the Journal of Research
on Educational Effectiveness, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Behavioral Science and Policy, Statistics and Public Policy, the Journal of Labor Economics, Economics of Education Review, Education Finance and Policy, American Journal of Education, Teachers College Record, Peabody Journal of Education, Education Next, the Handbook of Research
on School Choice, and the Encyclopedia of Education Economics and Finance.
Citing the new Education Next results, Petrilli argues that charter advocates should focus
on regaining GOP support, and suggests doing so by tamping down social justice
rhetoric (such as closing achievement gaps and alleviating systemic inequalities), by emphasizing parental
choice and personal freedom (i.e., that charters liberate families from their government - assigned
schools), and by touting that most charters are non-union.