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School choice vs. high-stakes-testing
- 05-05-2011
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Blog by E.D. Kain/Forbes
After exchanging emails with Matt, I’m convinced that I was focusing on an issue that he was not promoting in his initial post: testing. When it comes to the modern education reform movement, I am much more concerned with the testing regime and the top-down approach of many school reformers than I am with the idea of school choice. I do think proponents of school choice tend to overstate the effectiveness of charter schools, but I am not opposed to giving school choice a chance (though I am very skeptical of for-profit schools). And frankly skeptics of school choice fall into similar traps as proponents, over-estimating the downsides, etc. School choice is a work in progress, and who knows how it will turn out in the end. So a few points and clarifications. (more...)
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