Education Next – Patrick J. Wolf
“The Miami Herald recently re-published an op-ed originally appearing in The Conversation. In the essay, education professors Christopher Lubienski and Joel Malin wonder why states keep adopting and expanding private school choice programs when such initiatives, in their view, have failed. Their answer essentially is that school choice researchers and advocates have duped policymakers by “moving the goalposts,” emphasizing the positive effects of choice on outcomes besides the test scores that advocates initially stressed to sell the programs. Upon close examination, the Lubienski and Malin argument argument collapses like a house of cards.” (more)