Instead of developing national, college-prep standards for high-school students, maybe we should be fostering some diversity in what students gets out of their time in school. The surprising advocate of this idea? Chester E. Finn Jr., whose Thomas B. Fordham Institute has been an advocate of strong academic standards. In this commentary, Finn worries that the Common Core movement might lead to more students dropping […]
School choice
The moral case for school choice
There are many reasons for enacting school choice. Improving educational achievement and saving money are two of the big ones. But Richard John Neuhaus points us to another one that doesn’t get as much play as it should: Enacting choice is the moral thing to do. He points to an earlier essay by John Coons, who writes: Shifting educational authority from government to parents is a […]