A Remarkable School-Choice Experiment
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- School choice is usually about providing parents an option outside the traditional public school system. Between 2010 and 2021, public charter school enrollment in the U.S. more than doubled (nces.ed.gov/fa...) .
But LAUSD did something different. It recognized the growing appetite for choice and wondered whether the normal public school system could help satisfy it. It set up a limited school choice program in 2012, the kind of experiment ripe for an economics paper, and thankfully economist Christopher Campos (x.com/cqcampos...) took notice. Host Jerusalem Demsas talks to Campos about his paper (academic.oup.c...) , revealing that when public high schools were forced to compete for enrollment, achievement gaps narrowed, and college enrollment took off.
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they could instead maybe you know, fund public education and have smaller classes with support. Maybe pay teachers a living wage to attract expertise.
Yes, hate choice, hate free people deciding what they prefer. Once size fits all to the mentally indoctrinated, no doubt one who was raised by government agents in government schools.
like, totally...tRump & His Hillbilly will be all over that. TRump's famous words: I love the poorly educated.
Which way are children going? From private/choice/voucher schools to public schools or the other way around? You can tell preferences by actions, not by these silly studies, which do have some value, but academic performance suggests that only some things are "truly important to learn in school" while ignoring schools that maybe teach values, home skills, investment skills, technical education, etc.