Baselines for Assessment of Choice Programs

Baselines for Assessment of Choice Programs

Critics of choice argue that it will allow alert and aggressive parents to get the best of everything for their children, leaving poor and minority children concentrated in the worst schools. (Note 1) But choice is not the only mechanism whereby this occurs. Alert and aggressive parents work the bur...

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Main Authors: Paul T. Hill, Kacey Guin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Arizona State University 2003-10-01
Series:Education Policy Analysis Archives
Online Access:http://epaa.asu.edu/ojs/article/view/267
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spelling doaj-583f9a0e1cc24db69f2ea2409d5d999c2020-11-25T03:50:04ZengArizona State UniversityEducation Policy Analysis Archives1068-23412003-10-011139Baselines for Assessment of Choice ProgramsPaul T. HillKacey GuinCritics of choice argue that it will allow alert and aggressive parents to get the best of everything for their children, leaving poor and minority children concentrated in the worst schools. (Note 1) But choice is not the only mechanism whereby this occurs. Alert and aggressive parents work the bureaucracy to get the best for their children. Thus, choice programs should be compared against the real performance of the current public education system, not its idealized aspirations. http://epaa.asu.edu/ojs/article/view/267
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