Thursday, May 17, 2012

A Worrisome Tradeoff of the School Choice Movement

A Worrisome Tradeoff of the School Choice Movement:


A Worrisome Tradeoff of the School Choice Movement


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The New York Times’ most emailed articles list typically does not include the most hard-hitting journalism. Instead, the list features pet stories about Ivy League graduates forced to wait tables or, this week, parents paying for their middle-aged daughters to freeze their eggs as grandparent insurance. Monday morning’s list, however, had an important story that examines a tradeoff posed by the charter school movement: the increasing self-selection into segregated schools.
Over the last few decades, the charters have brought the market to the schoolhouse. For parents whose children would have been siphoned into a low-performing school, school choice can provide other, hopefully better,