Parental Choice?
A Critical Reconsideration of Choice and the Debate about Choice (PB)
Paperback
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ISBN-13:
9781617350894
Veröffentl:
2010
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
08.07.2010
Seiten:
218
Autor:
P. L. (Paul Lee) Thomas
Gewicht:
339 g
Format:
234x156x12 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
A volume in Critical Constructions: Studies on Education and SocietySeries Editor: Curry Stephenson Malott
Education has rarely been absent from local and national public discourse. Throughout the
history of modern education spanning more than a century, we have as a culture lamented the
failures of public schooling, often making such claims based on assumptions instead of any
nuanced consideration of the many influences on teaching and learning in any child's life-notably
the socioeconomic status of a student's family.
School reform, then, has also been a frequent topic in political discourse and public debate.
Since the mid-twentieth century, a rising call for market forces to replace government-run schooling has pushed to the front of those
debates. Since A Nation at Risk in the early 1980s and the implementation of No Child Left Behind at the turn of the twenty-first
century, a subtle shift has occurred in the traditional support of public education-fueled by the misconception that private schools out
perform public schools along with a naive faith in competition and the promise of the free market. Political and ideological claims that
all parents deserve school choice has proven to be a compelling slogan.
This book unmasks calls for parental and school choice with a postformal and critical view of both the traditional bureaucratic
public school system and the current patterns found the body of research on all aspects of school choice and private schooling. The
examination of the status quo and market-based calls for school reform will serve well all stakeholders in public education as they seek
to evaluate the quality of schools today and form positions on how best to reform schools for
the empowerment of free people in a democratic society.
Education has rarely been absent from local and national public discourse. Throughout the
history of modern education spanning more than a century, we have as a culture lamented the
failures of public schooling, often making such claims based on assumptions instead of any
nuanced consideration of the many influences on teaching and learning in any child's life-notably
the socioeconomic status of a student's family.
School reform, then, has also been a frequent topic in political discourse and public debate.
Since the mid-twentieth century, a rising call for market forces to replace government-run schooling has pushed to the front of those
debates. Since A Nation at Risk in the early 1980s and the implementation of No Child Left Behind at the turn of the twenty-first
century, a subtle shift has occurred in the traditional support of public education-fueled by the misconception that private schools out
perform public schools along with a naive faith in competition and the promise of the free market. Political and ideological claims that
all parents deserve school choice has proven to be a compelling slogan.
This book unmasks calls for parental and school choice with a postformal and critical view of both the traditional bureaucratic
public school system and the current patterns found the body of research on all aspects of school choice and private schooling. The
examination of the status quo and market-based calls for school reform will serve well all stakeholders in public education as they seek
to evaluate the quality of schools today and form positions on how best to reform schools for
the empowerment of free people in a democratic society.