Category Archives: school choice

book review: Diane Ravitch's "The Death and Life of the Great American School System"

I recently fin­ished Diane Rav­itch’s book, “The Death and Life of the Great Amer­i­can School Sys­tem: How Test­ing and Choice are Under­min­ing Edu­ca­tion.” This book has been get­ting quite a bit of atten­tion even out­side of edu­ca­tional cir­cles so I fig­ured I should read it. Rav­itch is an his­to­rian of edu­ca­tion and, viewed as a his­tory, …

June 9, 2010 – 4:48 pm | By pamela | Posted in book reviews, education, education policy, school choice | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (10)

competition is as american as apple pie, except in education

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvaJYYeXf70] Recently, I saw the above video on Face­book. Basi­cally, it illus­trates the argu­ment that a pub­lic option in health care would com­pete against pri­vate insur­ers to the ben­e­fit of those cov­ered under both kinds of plans. This argu­ment seems like it is sup­posed to appeal to the market-minded among us, who are into com­pe­ti­tion …

October 23, 2009 – 9:29 am | By pamela | Posted in applied ethics, current events, education, health care, politics & political, school choice | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (6)