Joanne Jacobs takes a look at Stuart Buck’s Acting White: The Ironic Legacy of Desegregation. Buck’s an interesting guy who brings both credentials and experience to the issue. He’s a classical musician, lawyer (Harvard) and scholar who writes on legal as well as education issues. He’s a white dad of six, including an adopted black [...]
Chad Aldeman, writing at The Quick and the Ed, argues that school choice is not a good in itself. Specifically, he takes issue with what Charles Murray has to say in the NYT today in an op-ed entitled “Why Charter Schools Fail the Test.” Murray’s wrong, but Aldeman is even more wrong. Aldeman says that [...]
Samuel Freedman’s On Religion piece at the NYT–an interesting take on Diane Ravitch’s new must-read– argues that the proliferation of free charter schools hurts urban tuition-charging Catholic schools. Not all alternatives to failing public schools are equal, though, and Catholic schools are still the only ones to offer the things that public schools– by definition– [...]