Review of "Expanding Choice in Elementary and Secondary Education: A Report on Rethinking the Federal Role in Education"

Autor/in	Scott, Janelle
Institution	University of Colorado at Boulder, Education and the Public Interest Center; Arizona State University, Education Policy Research Unit
Titel	Review of "Expanding Choice in Elementary and Secondary Education: A Report on Rethinking the Federal Role in Education"
Quelle	(2010), (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Evidence; School Choice; Federal Government; Government Role; Research Reports; Elementary Secondary Education; Politics of Education; Research Problems; Validity; Inferences; Reliability; Accuracy; Scholarship; Ethnic Diversity; Meta Analysis; School Restructuring; Research Methodology; Educational Policy; Educational Practices + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Evidenz; Choice of school; Schulwahl; Bundesregierung; Research report; Forschungsbericht; Educational policy; Bildungspolitik; Forschungskritik; Gültigkeit; Inference; Inferenz; Reliabilität; Scholarships; Stipendium; Meta-analysis; Metaanalyse; Schulreformplan; Schulumwandlung; Research method; Forschungsmethode; Politics of education; Bildungspraxis
Abstract	"Expanding Choice in Elementary and Secondary Education: A Report on Rethinking the Federal Role in Education" presents a seemingly egalitarian prescription for the federal government to expand school choice. An examination of the arguments and evidence for increasing choice, however, reveals at least three important shortcomings. First, the authors tend to overuse research that is still in progress and research produced by advocacy organizations and think tanks, leading them to be overly optimistic about particular school choice reforms' effects on educational achievement, access and equity. The second oversight is the neglect of important scholarship, causing the authors to fail to acknowledge the complex social and political dynamics informing parental choice processes as well as choice schools' practices that limit and shape their student enrollments. A third shortcoming emerges from this omission: the authors do not sufficiently consider issues of diversity, including the social categories of race, ethnicity, special education, and English Learners. They fail to acknowledge that some school choice reforms have had segregative effects. As such, in the singular pursuit of their goal to universally expand school choice the authors miss an opportunity to affirm the federal role in ensuring the creation of diverse, equitable, and high-quality choice schools that would produce individual and societal benefits. (Contains 22 notes.) [This paper reviews the following document: "Expanding Choice in Elementary and Secondary Education: A Report on Rethinking the Federal Role in Education" (ED508201).] (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10