Education Next – Paul Peterson
“If one wants to look for the most solid erection of barriers along traditional battle lines, one needs to search no further than the Orfield report. Orfield has never seen a school choice program he likes. Suspicious of parents, he thinks either the courts or the federal government, or both, should force children to attend the school he and his elitist friends want them to attend. . . . A much more hopeful signal about where the country might be going is provided by the latest Brookings report on choice and competition in education, signed by a group of scholars of various political persuasions and pulled together by Grover Whitehurst.”(more)