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Parental Choice? - A Critical Reconsideration of Choice and the Debate About Choice (HC) (Hardcover, New)
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Parental Choice? - A Critical Reconsideration of Choice and the Debate About Choice (HC) (Hardcover, New)
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A volume in Critical Constructions: Studies on Education and
Society Series Editor: Curry Stephenson Malott Education has rarely
been absent from local and national public discourse. Throughout
the history of modern education spanning more than a century, we
have as a culture lamented the failures of public schooling, often
making such claims based on assumptions instead of any nuanced
consideration of the many influences on teaching and learning in
any child's life-notably the socioeconomic status of a student's
family. School reform, then, has also been a frequent topic in
political discourse and public debate. Since the mid-twentieth
century, a rising call for market forces to replace government-run
schooling has pushed to the front of those debates. Since A Nation
at Risk in the early 1980s and the implementation of No Child Left
Behind at the turn of the twenty-first century, a subtle shift has
occurred in the traditional support of public education-fueled by
the misconception that private schools out perform public schools
along with a naive faith in competition and the promise of the free
market. Political and ideological claims that all parents deserve
school choice has proven to be a compelling slogan. This book
unmasks calls for parental and school choice with a postformal and
critical view of both the traditional bureaucratic public school
system and the current patterns found the body of research on all
aspects of school choice and private schooling. The examination of
the status quo and market-based calls for school reform will serve
well all stakeholders in public education as they seek to evaluate
the quality of schools today and form positions on how best to
reform schools for the empowerment of free people in a democratic
society.
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