Scholars Outline Ways to Maximize Value of School Choice
From creating tradable “enrollment rights” to help integrate schools to providing parents with better school performance information, a new book that aims to stake out a middle ground in the debate over school choice offers ways to enhance the benefits while mitigating the risks.
The collection of essays evolved from the deliberations of the National Working Commission on Choice in K-12 Education, a panel convened by the Washington-based Brookings Institution in 2001 that sought to move beyond arguments over whether school choice is good or bad. Many, but not all, contributing authors were members of the commission, chaired by Paul T. Hill, the director of the Center for Reinventing Public Education at the University of Washington in Seattle.
“[S]chool choice in the United States is here to stay and likely to grow,” co-editors Tom Loveless and Julian R. Betts write in the opening chapter. “In recent decades new forms of school choice have arisen that have fundamentally...
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