Tag: Vouchers
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Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Yesterday, Patrick Wolf published a vitriolic attack on me and on the National Education Policy Center. This was in response to a post I had published saying that vouchers had failed in Milwaukee. They are supposed to “save minority students from failing schools,” but they do no better…
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Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Professor Henry M. Levin is a distinguished economist and director of the National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. He recently participated in a conference in Sweden convened by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to review the evidence about the…
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For Cloaking Inequity’s full thread on Vouchers go here. For more information on the TLBC Legislative Summit go here. School Choice: Vouchers, A Compliment or an Assault on Public Education Monday, Feb. 25th from 1:30p to 3:30p JHR 110 (Reagan Bldg in Capitol Complex) TITLE: School Choice: Vouchers as public educational policy: As we have discussed,…
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I know. I know. I promised finito yesterday on vouchers. For the past week on CI, I have sought to thoughtfully ponder the impact of vouchers on various issues such as achievement, school finance, education equity and rural areas. In prior posts on the the universal implementation of vouchers I have also pondered segregation and…
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The premise that vouchers create a competitive market place for students and parents is questionable once the assumption of who can actually compete in or benefit from that market place is considered. Unrestricted, universal school choice, has in practice increased the segregation of diverse learners (e.g. ability, SES, and Race/Ethnicity) (NEA, 2012). Why is this…
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