And these gains we are making will endure: “School choice appears to be a one-way ratchet. There has never been a year in which there were fewer school choice programs than the year before.” 2/
“Freedom tends to work like that. When folks crossed from east to west through the Berlin Wall and found out about Levi’s Jeans and Ramones tapes, it was tough to go back.” 3/
“The same is true for schooling. Once parents get the option to pick their child’s school, it is tough to take that away.” 4/end from @MQ_McShane of @edchoice
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New study in Washington state by @livfinne of @WAPolicyCenter clearly shows "the oft-made political claim that public education is underfunded is just plain false." #SchoolChoiceWeek
"Public schools in Washington state now receive record levels of funding, even as the system has fewer students."
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"A modest-sized classroom of 25 students receives an average of $420,000 a year."
But academic outcomes are flat or declining and nearly 1/5 of public school students drop out of high school and the racial achievement gap is wider than ever
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They challenge this widespread view: "Although they are frequently pitted against each other, contemporary approaches to education on the left and right often begin from a common assumption: that prejudice and violence toward others is the result of ignorance." 2/
"Instead of civic education understood as the provision of information, what we need is civic education understood as virtue formation." 3/
The article claims that a Sept USA Today/Ipsos poll found that "83 percent of Black parents are in favor of CRT in their children’s schools." That survey was of 2,010 adults - not parents. There were only 427 parents in sample of whom ~65 would be black. ipsos.com/sites/default/…
The author's argument hinges around this claim of overwhelming support from black parents, but it cannot draw strong conclusions from sample of 65 black parents, which appears to be the case from the poll cited.
Also unable to find the Fox News survey results described in the article. Have requested links to the surveys cited in the piece from @kalihollowayftw@thenation