The Public School Advantage

Released on by Christopher A. Lubienski
preview-18

  • The Public School Advantage Book Detail

  • Author : Christopher A. Lubienski
  • Release Date : 2013-11-07
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Genre : Education
  • Pages : 299
  • ISBN 13 : 022608907X
  • File Size : 49,49 MB
DOWNLOAD BOOK

The Public School Advantage by Christopher A. Lubienski PDF Summary

Book Description: Nearly the whole of America’s partisan politics centers on a single question: Can markets solve our social problems? And for years this question has played out ferociously in the debates about how we should educate our children. From the growth of vouchers and charter schools to the implementation of No Child Left Behind, policy makers have increasingly turned to market-based models to help improve our schools, believing that private institutions—because they are competitively driven—are better than public ones. With The Public School Advantage, Christopher A. and Sarah Theule Lubienski offer powerful evidence to undercut this belief, showing that public schools in fact outperform private ones. For decades research showing that students at private schools perform better than students at public ones has been used to promote the benefits of the private sector in education, including vouchers and charter schools—but much of these data are now nearly half a century old. Drawing on two recent, large-scale, and nationally representative databases, the Lubienskis show that any benefit seen in private school performance now is more than explained by demographics. Private schools have higher scores not because they are better institutions but because their students largely come from more privileged backgrounds that offer greater educational support. After correcting for demographics, the Lubienskis go on to show that gains in student achievement at public schools are at least as great and often greater than those at private ones. Even more surprising, they show that the very mechanism that market-based reformers champion—autonomy—may be the crucial factor that prevents private schools from performing better. Alternatively, those practices that these reformers castigate, such as teacher certification and professional reforms of curriculum and instruction, turn out to have a significant effect on school improvement. Despite our politics, we all agree on the fundamental fact: education deserves our utmost care. The Public School Advantage offers exactly that. By examining schools within the diversity of populations in which they actually operate, it provides not ideologies but facts. And the facts say it clearly: education is better off when provided for the public by the public.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own The Public School Advantage books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

The Public School Advantage

The Public School Advantage

File Size : 14,14 MB
Total View : 8834 Views
DOWNLOAD

Nearly the whole of America’s partisan politics centers on a single question: Can markets solve our social problems? And for years this question has played ou

Creating the Suburban School Advantage

Creating the Suburban School Advantage

File Size : 58,58 MB
Total View : 4322 Views
DOWNLOAD

Creating the Suburban School Advantage explains how American suburban school districts gained a competitive edge over their urban counterparts. John L. Rury pro

Educating Elites

Educating Elites

File Size : 5,5 MB
Total View : 2680 Views
DOWNLOAD

The gaze of educational researchers has traditionally been turned 'down' toward the experiences of communities deemed at-risk, presumably with the purpose of im

Public Education

Public Education

File Size : 12,12 MB
Total View : 717 Views
DOWNLOAD

"Twenty-eight eminent essayists remind our nations parents, educators, school board members and politicians that our democracy is in jeopardy and that our natio