School Choice: The Moral Debate
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Central to this vision is a profound commitment to families, teachers, children, basic democratic ideals, and the urgent need to dismantle large-scale educational bureaucracies.
They believe that market competition would result in a better quality of education for all students, winnowing out low performing institutions as parents have the opportunity to select from a wider array of offerings. Proponents and opponents of school choice mainly frame the argument in terms of the policy's likely effects on the performance of public schools competition may or may not induce improved performance , and its efficacy in expanding educational options for low income families those with resources have choices, so why not the poor? They are there because they have no choice. The practical consequences of taking school choice seriously will be complex and difficult to predict. A Dialogue Culture, Language, and Race. Animals, Computers, and the Necessity of Social Science. The book closes with an appendix, which is extremely helpful in mapping out school choice legislation activity presently taking place across the United States.
While such insights are certainly worth considering, the author himself warns from the very beginning of the book that "School choice without good schools is meaningless" p. In others words, schools without a vision and commitment to social responsibility, equity, and democratic struggle are doomed to perpetuate the same oppressive conditions that render today's public institutions of education sites of turmoil rather than places of growth and self-empowerment.
The book closes with an appendix, which is extremely helpful in mapping out school choice legislation activity presently taking place across the United States. Regardless of whether one chooses to read School Choice from the perspective of policymaking or sociology, the most compelling quality inherent in Cookson's interdisciplinary approach is his ability to humanize the issue of educational reform.
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The pages of School Choice are written with a constant awareness of the people affected by school choice policies. Vividly woven into each discussion are the realities of poverty and discrimination that plague the lives of a great many children and educators, and, in addition, how such realities drastically affect the role and possibilities of schools and communities. Moreover, Cookson moves a step beyond mere voyeuristic description of these abject conditions, exposing how the notion of collective responsibility has slipped from public consciousness.
Such an interdisciplinary humanistic understanding of public education helps the reader keep sight of the profound philosophical, moral, and political dimensions that make possible a much larger step toward a more just and democratic society. As Cookson so eloquently states: We are living in a society in which spiritual and moral purpose seems like a vestige of a bygone era.
We are experiencing an intellectual and social crisis.
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The future of American education will be determined not by the winds that glide over the educational landscape but by the hidden seismic faults that push against each other and threaten to cause an educational earthquake. While there has been much debate over the empirical and methodological aspects of school choice policies, discussions related to the effects such policies may have on the nation's moral economy and civil society have been few and far between. School Choice , a collection of essays by leading philosophers, historians, legal scholars, and theologians, redresses this situation by addressing the moral and normative side of school choice.
He is the author or editor of more than ten books, including Moral Freedom W. Flowing text, Original pages. Web, Tablet, Phone, eReader. It syncs automatically with your account and allows you to read online or offline wherever you are.
Please follow the detailed Help center instructions to transfer the files to supported eReaders. More by Alan Wolfe. Animals, Computers, and the Necessity of Social Science. The Future of Liberalism. A compelling and deeply felt exploration and defense of liberalism: Wolfe also examines those who have challenged liberalism since its inception, from Jean-Jacques Rousseau to modern conservatives, religious fundamentalists, and evolutionary theorists such as Richard Dawkins.
And we see how the liberal tradition can influence and illuminate contemporary debates on immigration, abortion, executive power, religious freedom, and free speech. These are important issues, to be sure, but they relate only indirectly to what should be a crucial object of public policy -- namely, to equalize developmental opportunities for all American youngsters.
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Neither more effective public education, nor greater access for the poor to private education guarantee that the current large disparities in developmental opportunity between children from different class and ethnic backgrounds will necessarily be eliminated. This is so for at least two reasons: This essay will provide support for these assertions and explore their implications for evaluating the desirability of alternative approaches to school choice.
Equality or, as I prefer, equity is a crucial standard for assessing school choice proposals.
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But equity is interpreted in various ways. The best arguments for school choice invoke equity, but so do the least defensible arguments and the least attractive forms of school choice. So it all depends on what we mean by equity. The strongest arguments for school choice are based on improving the education of the most deprived children in the worst performing urban schools.
Some of the weakest arguments for publicly funded school choice argue on the basis of fairness or equity among parents with differing religious and cultural values. Focusing on the wrong sorts of equity will lead us astray. Focusing on the right sorts of equity will at least encourage us to ask the right questions, but it will not yield easy answers.
Book Review: School Choice:The Moral Debate
Limited school choice experiments, and more extensive school choice plans advanced by scholars, can be designed so as to promote greater equity and equality of opportunity. But we cannot say with confidence that the political will can be mustered to preserve these equity-enhancing features in practice. The practical consequences of taking school choice seriously will be complex and difficult to predict. We should proceed cautiously.
School choice has lately risen to the top of the list of potential solutions to America's educational problems, particularly for the poor and the most disad. School choice has lately risen to the top of the list of potential solutions to America's educational problems, particularly for the poor and the most.
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