The Public School Advantage - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Public School Advantage write by Christopher A. Lubienski. This book was released on 2013-11-07. The Public School Advantage available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Nearly the whole of America’s partisan politics centers on a single question: Can markets solve our social problems? And for years this question has played out ferociously in the debates about how we should educate our children. From the growth of vouchers and charter schools to the implementation of No Child Left Behind, policy makers have increasingly turned to market-based models to help improve our schools, believing that private institutions—because they are competitively driven—are better than public ones. With The Public School Advantage, Christopher A. and Sarah Theule Lubienski offer powerful evidence to undercut this belief, showing that public schools in fact outperform private ones. For decades research showing that students at private schools perform better than students at public ones has been used to promote the benefits of the private sector in education, including vouchers and charter schools—but much of these data are now nearly half a century old. Drawing on two recent, large-scale, and nationally representative databases, the Lubienskis show that any benefit seen in private school performance now is more than explained by demographics. Private schools have higher scores not because they are better institutions but because their students largely come from more privileged backgrounds that offer greater educational support. After correcting for demographics, the Lubienskis go on to show that gains in student achievement at public schools are at least as great and often greater than those at private ones. Even more surprising, they show that the very mechanism that market-based reformers champion—autonomy—may be the crucial factor that prevents private schools from performing better. Alternatively, those practices that these reformers castigate, such as teacher certification and professional reforms of curriculum and instruction, turn out to have a significant effect on school improvement. Despite our politics, we all agree on the fundamental fact: education deserves our utmost care. The Public School Advantage offers exactly that. By examining schools within the diversity of populations in which they actually operate, it provides not ideologies but facts. And the facts say it clearly: education is better off when provided for the public by the public.
Private Schools in the United States
Private Schools in the United States - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Private Schools in the United States write by Peter L. Benson. This book was released on 1991. Private Schools in the United States available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Public Vs. Private
Public Vs. Private - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Public Vs. Private write by Robert N. Gross. This book was released on 2018. Public Vs. Private available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Americans choose from a dizzying array of schools, loosely categorized as "public" and "private." How did these distinctions emerge, and what do they tell us about the relationship in the United States between public authority and private enterprise? Challenged by the rise of Catholic and other parochial schools in the nineteenth century, states sought to protect the public school monopoly through regulation. Ultimately, however, Robert N. Gross shows how the public policies that resulted produced a stable educational marketplace, where choice flourished.
The Changing Universe of U.S. Private Schools
The Changing Universe of U.S. Private Schools - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Changing Universe of U.S. Private Schools write by Bruce S. Cooper. This book was released on 1985. The Changing Universe of U.S. Private Schools available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Engines of Privilege
Engines of Privilege - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Engines of Privilege write by David Kynaston. This book was released on 2019-02-07. Engines of Privilege available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A rigorous, compelling and balanced examination of the British public school system and the inequalities it entrenches. Private schools are institutions that children who are already privileged attend and have those privileges further entrenched, almost certainly for life, through a high-quality, richly-resourced education. The Engines of Privilege contends that in a society that mouths the virtues of equality of opportunity, of fairness and of social cohesion, the continuation of this educational apartheid amounts to an act of national self-harm that does all of us serious damage. Intrinsic to any vision of the future of Britain has to be the nature of our educational system. Yet the quality of conversation on the issue of private education remains surprisingly sterile, patchy and highly subjective. Accessible, evidence-based and inclusive, Engines of Privilege aims to kick-start a long overdue national debate. Clear, vigorous prose is combined with forensic analysis to compelling effect, illuminating the painful contrast between the importance of private schools in British society and the near-absence of serious, policy-making debate, above all on the left.
