Dilemmas of School Choice

Reblogged from Diane Ravitch's blog:

Karen Francisco writes about education for the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette. Whenever I see her work, I wish I lived in Fort Wayne, so I could see everything she writes. She is one of our most thoughtful commentators on the subject of education.

In this article, she ponders the complexity of school choice.

What happens when parents want their children to go to a school even though it has low scores?

Read more… 45 more words

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One Response to Dilemmas of School Choice

  1. bannerpat says:

    Many parents want their children in a familiar school with people they know and trust and they don’t care about objective measures of performance. It is the subjective characteristics of a school that are of the utmost importance.

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