ISBN: 9780817910143

Why haven’t schools of choice yet achieved a broader appeal? Choice opens up what our public education system now holds tight, allowing innovations in curriculum and other aspects o… More...

Why haven’t schools of choice yet achieved a broader appeal? Choice opens up what our public education system now holds tight, allowing innovations in curriculum and other aspects of instruction that are not now possible. Thus, choice is a necessary if not sufficient condition for needed innovations in curriculum, methods, use of time, and human resources. Publicly funded school choice programs—charter schools in forty-three states and vouchers in a few localities—have for the most part been qualified successes; along with many mixed results, some have in fact been more dramatic successes. Yet the rhetoric of choice supporters promised much more effective schools and an era of innovation that has not come to pass. Is there something wrong with the theories behind the choice movement? Paul T. Hill answers this question with an emphatic no. In Learning as We Go: Why School Choice Is Worth the Wait, he examines why continuous improvement that school choice was supposed to introduce to public education has been so slow to occur.Hill details four key factors to explain the delay. The first and most important is political opposition. The second is composed of policies and regulations—themselves the results of politics that advantage incumbent administrators, educators, and interest groups—that either create big obstacles to the success of choice or go only halfway toward creating the conditions necessary for its full operation. Third is an entrenched system built on procedure, compliance, employee protection, and secrecy about resource use and productivity. A fourth source of delays is a set of time lags intrinsic to the operation of a system of choice.The author then suggests changes in public policy along with philanthropic investment that could overcome barriers and increase the rate of progress toward full operation of what he calls the “virtuous cycle” stimulated by school choice. To Books Books ~~ Education & Teaching~~ General Learning-as-We-Go~~Paul-T-Hill Hoover Institution Press Paul T. Hill examines the real-world factors that can complicate, delay, and in some instances interfere with the positive cause-and-effect relationships identified by the theories behind school choice. He explains why schools of choice haven't yet achieved a broader appeal and suggests more realistic expectations about timing and a more complete understanding of what must be done to make choice work.<

ISBN: 9780817910143

[ED: Hardcover], [PU: HOOVER INSTITUTION PR], Paul T. Hill examines the real-world factors that can complicate, delay, and in some instances interfere with the positive cause-and-effect r… More...

[ED: Hardcover], [PU: HOOVER INSTITUTION PR], Paul T. Hill examines the real-world factors that can complicate, delay, and in some instances interfere with the positive cause-and-effect relationships identified by the theories behind school choice. He explains why schools of choice haven't yet achieved a broader appeal and suggests more realistic expectations about timing and a more complete understanding of what must be done to make choice work. Versandfertig in über 4 Wochen, [SC: 0.00], Neuware, gewerbliches Angebot<

ISBN: 9780817910143

Hardback, [PU: Hoover Institution Press,U.S.], Examines the real-world factors that can complicate, delay, and in some instances interfere with the positive cause-and-effect relationships… More...

Hardback, [PU: Hoover Institution Press,U.S.], Examines the real-world factors that can complicate, delay, and in some instances interfere with the positive cause-and-effect relationships identified by the theories behind school choice. It explains why schools of choice haven't yet achieved a broader appeal and suggests more realistic expectations about timing and a more complete understanding of what must be done to make choice work., Schools, Schools<

ISBN: 9780817910143

Learning as We Go Why School Choice is Worth the Wait Author :Paul T. Hill 9780817910143 081791014X, [PU: Hoover Institution Press]

2010, ISBN: 9780817910143

Why School Choice is Worth the Wait, Buch, Hardcover, [PU: Hoover Institution Press,U.S.], Hoover Institution Press,U.S., 2010