Education

Multiple Choice on Choice

By Mary-Ellen Phelps Deily — July 11, 2007 1 min read
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“Place yourself back in First Grade,” Matthew Ladner writes on edspresso.com. Then, choose where you’d like to attend the public schools: (a) Washington, D.C., (b) Los Angeles, (c) Chicago, or (d) none of the above. Did you choose (d)? Uh-oh. “If those schools are not suitable for you in theory, then they are not suitable for low-income children in practice,” writes Ladner, the vice president of research at the Goldwater Institute. Writing for the Center for Education Reform’s edspresso blog, Ladner opines that children in inner-city schools face very limited opportunities and that, if all children faced such limits, the system would change. He advocates for reform on two fronts: “expand school choice options for all parents and completely overhaul the resource development and compensation system for teachers.”

A version of this news article first appeared in the Around the Web blog.