Why America Needs School Choice by Jay P. Greene

Author:Jay P. Greene [Greene, Jay P.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Policy, Public Policy, Political Science
ISBN: 9781594035951
Google: hfj_9AT64FoC
Goodreads: 17045777
Publisher: Encounter Books
Published: 2011-07-19T00:00:00+00:00

Attending private or charter schools helps (or at least does not hurt) students in being more tolerant of the political activities of people from groups they strongly dislike.

Given our strong theoretical expectations that competition should motivate public school improvement and a breadth of evidence that it does so, it is frustrating that people such as the writers of the New York Times editorial page declare, “Vouchers do nothing to improve education for those remaining in the public system. In theory, they are supposed to cause bad schools to reform themselves by threatening them with market competition. In fact, they make reform harder, if not impossible, by siphoning away meager resources and skimming off good students, leaving the most troubled children and the most apathetic families behind.”

But there are no “facts” to be found in this New York Times editorial or in any of the other similar denunciations of school choice for hurting traditional public schools. Instead, all they have is an odd theory that public schools are hurt if they have to compete for funds. In virtually no other aspect of their life would these people believe that the best way to ensure quality is to guarantee organizations ever-increasing resources regardless of performance and with no prospect of having to compete. In this one room, they believe antigravity works.

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