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Baby-step toward school choice? (Society).(The Century Foundation report on school choice)(Brief Article)
Lowell Weicker et al., Divided We Fail: Coming Together Through Public School Choice, The Century Foundation, September 2002 (tcf.org)
A report from a task force assembled by a liberal think tank suggests that letting students choose among public schools represents the best path to improved education, economic integration, and academic achievement among low-income children.
The task force, led by former Connecticut governor Lowell Weicker, places most of its emphasis on what its members term "controlled choice." Under their proposal, every school in a defined geographic area--usually about a third or a half of a big-city school district--would have to compete for students. To provide socio-economic balance, the composition of each school is required to reflect the demographics of the area it draws from. Siblings of students already enrolled in a school and people who live within walking distance would receive ...
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...flavor" of school choice would better...fellow at the Century Foundation, a nonpartisan...that expanded school choice is a good thing...necessitates broader school choice. For all their...net; the Century Foundation's "Equality...
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...Together Now: Creating Middle Class Schools Through Public School Choice. Brookings Inst. Jan. 2001. c.480p. permanent paper...more than $32,000. Kahlenberg, Senior Fellow at The Century Foundation, notes that low-income schools, which make up 25 percent...
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