Education and choice
I agree with those who decide to permit choice in their district. I believe that teacher and schools are permitted to choose curricula and programs they think provide the best educational products, and students and parents are allowed to choose from among those products the ones best suited to their preferences and educational objectives. In 1974, the quality of education in East Harlem improved beyond even the most optimistic expectations. Indeed, the improvement was so great that the East Harlem educators decided to enter a new market. The district had been administering education through the eighth grade only; in 1985, it assumed responsibility for a neighborhood high school with a graduation rate of 7 percent. Although the school accepts any student who wants to attend, its graduation rate now exceeds 90 percent, and almost all of its graduates go on to some kind of postsecondary education. The freedom of choice offered schools, teachers, parents, and stude
What can be done about the sad state of primary and secondary education in this country? Many observers argue that competition among schools, fostered by greater freedom of choice, is essential to any solution. The experiment of the East Harlem school district is one example of the power of choice in promoting excellence. On a much broader scale, a series of programs in the state of Minnesota are providing even more compelling evidence of the importance of choice. Many high school students in Minnesota were permitted to receive all or part of their last two years of high school in colleges or vocational schools, with state monies following them from high school to pay their tuition, lab fees, and book fees. Who pay the cost? Those who are willing to sustain the cost and inconvenience of selling one house and buying another simply to enjoy school system. It has long been recognized that when U.S. students are exposed to educational systems in other industrialized nations, they are co
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