Matchmaking: Enabling Mandatory Public School Choice in New York and Boston. Ideas at Work

Autor/inn/en	Toch, Thomas; Aldeman, Chad
Institution	Education Sector
Titel	Matchmaking: Enabling Mandatory Public School Choice in New York and Boston. Ideas at Work
Quelle	(2009), (12 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Urban Schools; Federal Legislation; School Choice; Computer Software; Educational Policy; Policy Analysis; High Schools; Public Schools; Computer Uses in Education; School Districts; Program Descriptions; Program Implementation; Competition; Program Effectiveness; Selection; Elementary Schools; Massachusetts; New York + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Urban area; Urban areas; School; Schools; Stadtregion; Stadt; Schule; Bundesrecht; Choice of school; Schulwahl; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Politikfeldanalyse; High school; Oberschule; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Computernutzung; School district; Schulbezirk; Wettkampf; Auslese; Elementary school; Grundschule; Volksschule; Master-Studiengang
Abstract	From tuition vouchers for private schools to charter schools to voluntary transfer programs within and between public school systems, school choice has been at the center of the school reform debate for two decades. But with the voucher movement unable to sustain much momentum, charter schools still serving a small percentage of the nation's students with mixed results, and the public school choice system in the federal No Child Left Behind Act plagued by low participation rates, New York City's public high school selection system stands out as a model strategy for harnessing the power of the marketplace to better serve students' diverse educational interests and needs and to stimulate improvement through competition for students. The school system has sponsored choice on a scale unprecedented in public education by "requiring" each of its eighth-graders to select schools. And, along with the Boston school system, which has also made choice mandatory, it has adopted computer software that allows it to place students in the schools on their lists far more efficiently and fairly than most public school choice programs. As a result, the choice systems in New York and Boston, though not without challenges, have stimulated a new entrepreneurialism among many public educators, improved the perception of public education among middle-class families, and served as a catalyst for school reform by providing a rationale for taking action in school that fail to compete successfully for students. They can be powerful engines of urban school reform and valuable prototypes for other cities working to match more students with schools of choice. (Contains 2 figures, 18 endnotes, and a bibliography.) (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10