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City Journal, the Manhattan Institute's fine publication, kicked off a useful debate by running Sol Stern's essay "School Choice Isn't Enough.".(The Week)(Brief article)

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City Journal, the Manhattan Institute's fine publication, kicked off a useful debate by running Sol Stern's essay "School Choice Isn't Enough." Stern is for charter schools, vouchers, and other efforts to bring competition to education, but he believes that school reformers should place less emphasis on competition and more on raising standards. After all, most school kids are going to stay in the public system no matter how much school choice there is. And as Stern reads the evidence, vouchers have helped the students who use them without doing much to improve the public schools those students left behind. To our mind, Stern marks too great a division between those he calls "incentivists" and those he calls ...

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