Privatization Center To Seek Balanced View of Vouchers
Should the new National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education be "neutral" on the subject of vouchers? Or is a "dispassionate" position more appropriate? What about "balanced," "unbiased," or "objective"?
The discussion was more than academic for the 110 participants at the center's inaugural conference at Teachers College, Columbia University. The center hopes to become the nation's best source of information on the politically charged issue of vouchers, and its success depends in large part on whether it can avoid a perception of bias.
"We have conservatives who have looked at voucher programs and never found one that didn't work, and liberals who never found one that did work," said Arthur Levine, the president of Teachers College, which is hosting the new center. "It's time that we gave this...
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