Re: [Pen-l] RE: charter schools

[ravi <ravi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Feb 26, 2009, at 11:57 PM, Joanna wrote:
> So Johnny might get a better education in some respects (text book  
> knowledge), but a lousy education in other respects: ethics,  
> compassion, and human solidarity.


Michael,

I mentioned Sean's and my criticism of the foundations of David's  
approach/analysis. Joanna offers yet another criticism above.

In fact, the "better education" is narrower than "text book  
knowledge". A CEP study shows that public vs private school students  
(here I use private schools as a proxy for "choice" based schooling)  
do no different in tests in Reading, Math and Science. The private  
schoolers do have an advantage. Want to guess where? In SAT scores. Do  
I need to explain more?

	--ravi

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