In a recent essay for Education Week, Marc Tucker took issue with advocates for choice, charters and competition. He dismantled the libertarian argument for free markets in schooling. That’s not what enables top-performing nations to succeed, he says. Worth reading.
Excellent pieces, both the article in the link and the original article that provoked such cheap-shot responses.
Tucker’s analysis and data are precisely the points we have to keep pounding in letters to the papers, calls and letters to our politicians, and appearances at school board meetings. The simplistic argument that “choice” will guarantee “better” schools really begs the question–The champions of choice simply assume that the choices will always be better that what’s available now. Tucker shows the reality is far more complex and disappointing.