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Monday, April 16, 2012

Jersey Jazzman: "Good" Schools or "Good" Students?

Jersey Jazzman: "Good" Schools or "Good" Students?:


"Good" Schools or "Good" Students?

Well, this is depressing:
You won't find a call for school vouchers on Elizabeth Warren's campaign website. Education is listed first among the candidate's top priorities, but the website sticks to safe, poll tested platitudes calling for "good public schools, good public universities, and good technical training" as the key to a having a competitive workforce.
Yet in her 2003 book, The Two Income Trap, Warren and co-author Amelia Warren Tyagi cite the traditional public schools system, in which children are assigned to a school based on their residence, as a key source of economic pressure for families with children. Warren and Tyagi call for system-wide reforms to break the link between where a child lives and where they go to school, and specifically make the case for a fully-funded voucher program that would enable children to attend any public school. 
Is it too much to ask that we have just a few progressives advocate on the side of real reform? Or is everyone -