Competition among schools for students and among parents for entry into schools will not lead to systemic improvement or equity in education. It hasn’t happened anywhere, nor is there evidence that it can….Competition among schools for students and among parents for entry into schools will not lead to systemic improvement or equity in education. It hasn’t happened anywhere, nor is there evidence that it can….
The world of corporate dominance has given us a plethora fast-food choices. They are profitable and fill us up, but are nutritionally starved. We don’t need fast-education choices in which students fill up on testing but are educationally starved. We don’t need euphemistic stock market metaphors like portfolios of schools that- like in our financial system- serve to exacerbate an inequitable status quo….
Changing this shameful situation is not the pie-in-the-sky. Many of the possible solutions are common in other nations…
They are achievable, but only if an interracial political and social movement develops the strength to elect leaders who do not owe their allegiance to wealthy contributors and lobbyists.
Published on the Huffington Post, March 14, 2016.
Read full article here: Memo to Clinton and Sanders_HP
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