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read this book as part of the curriculum for a graduate class in research methods, This book is an excellent read for anyone who wishes to learn about the history and the current landscape of school choice in America.
I have found that books like this are wellsuited for learning but are unlikely to capture the public's attention because it seeks to be balanced, descriptive and accurate.
Books such as this one conscientiously do not take a stance on the issues they discuss, Their authors seek to present reasoned and welldocumented views of how we got here, what is important, and what is distraction.
As such, any anger that roused in me was quickly tempered by thoughts of "I can see how that makes sense to people even if I disagree".
In that regard, I think that books like these are valuable so that readers have somewhere to turn when the noise and partisanship that appears in so many places in life
becomes overwhelming.
Last philosophy of ed book for the semester! We made it folks!!! If free market advocates had total control over education policy, would the shared public system of education collapse Would school choice revitalize schooling with its innovative force With proliferating charters and voucher schemes, would the United States finally make a dramatic break with its past and expand parental choice
Thats not only the wrong questionits the wrong premise, argue philosopher Sigal R.
BenPorath and historian Michael C, Johanek in Making Up Our Mind, Marketdriven school choices arent a new, They predate the republic, and for generations parents have chosen to educate their children through an evolving mix of publicly supported, private, charitable, and entrepreneurial enterprises.
This process has arguably always been influenced by market forces, especially those of parental demand, and, more recently, by the impact of coordinated corporate and philanthropic influence.
The question is not whether to have school choice, It is how we will regulate who has which choices in our mixed market for schoolingand what we, as a nation, hope to accomplish with that mix of choices.
Making Up Our Mind looks beyond the simple divide between those who oppose government intervention and those who support public education as a way to nurture a democratic, integrated public sphere.
Instead, the authors make the case for a structured landscape of choice in schooling, one that protects the interests of children and of society, while also identifying key shared values on which a broadly acceptable policy could rest.
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