President Obama has often called on us to be true to who we are as a people, as Americans. And in his second term, he has the opportunity to transform the education system back to our core – to where parents are primarily in charge of children’s educations. We have[Read More…]
Tag: American Center for School Choice
‘Faith-based schools are an asset for all of us’ – Michael Guerra, podcastED
Faith-based schools will be more effective in expanding school choice – and in getting Americans to see their value – if they work together across traditional lines, suggests the chairman of a new national commission that aims to foster that kind of coalition. “We want to encourage the leaders of faith-based[Read More…]
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Regulating school vouchers
The gurus of school choice have often shuddered at the word “regulation.” On occasion this instinctive hostility has been tactically justified. Viewed objectively, however, it is meaningless – even self-contradictory. And too often has it driven fair-minded listeners from the civic conversation about the ideal structure of this very necessary[Read More…]
School choice advocates form national Commission on Faith-based Schools
The American Center for School Choice, which partners with Step Up For Students to host redefinED, has just established a Commission on Faith-based Schools. Here is the press release announcing its formation. An ecumenical commission of leaders representing the majority of faiths that operate schools in the U.S. plans to[Read More…]
Diane Ravitch goes off the rails
After more than a decade working in education reform I learned long ago that if I stopped to kick every snapping dog along the pathway, I would never arrive where I needed to go. But every now and then I read something, such as Diane Ravitch’s latest op-ed on CNN.com,[Read More…]
Milton and I and the evolution of school choice
Colleagues in the American Center for School Choice have convinced me to add a more personal note to my recent 100th birthday blog about Milton Friedman. They ask that I describe my connections with – and occasional disconnections from – the great man. I am honored to be consulted and[Read More…]
Time for broader debate on school choice
Much has been written on school vouchers that assumes they are primarily about economic efficiency and increasing the private sector’s role in education – a notion of educational choice that is widespread, understandable … and grossly incomplete. Fifty years ago, the 18th Century idea of subsidized parental choice was reintroduced[Read More…]
In America and abroad, no reason to fear faith-based schools
Editor’s note: America isn’t the only place where school choice raises questions about not only education, but pluralism, citizenship and social integration. Noted school choice expert Charles Glenn, a Boston University professor and American Center for School Choice associate, writes that European countries with far more evolved choice systems continue[Read More…]