Conservatives ask, “Are you for or against school choice?” The question should be, “What kind of choice are you for?” Americans’ historical experience can help answer that question.
David Tyack
David Tyack is the author, with Larry Cuban, of Tinkering Toward Utopia, and is currently teaching at Harvard Graduate School of Education.
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School Reform is Dead (Long Live School Reform)
The nation is awash in reforms and would-be reforms that promise to improve–or even transform–public schools. In Left Back, Diane Ravitch conveys a sober message: Schooling in the United States has suffered from “a century of failed school reforms.” Ravitch is an influential historian and herself a seasoned school reformer who served as assistant secretary […]