Word: moe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Goals: P--Ed Calkins 2, Andy Moe 2, Justin Tortolani 2, Greg Waller, H--Dan O'Sullivan 2, Paul Faust, Mike Porter, Steve Buetow, Chip Linehan...
...systems like New York City's, that is more than $5,500 a year, higher than the tuition at some private schools. Government would still have a role: private schools, as they do today, would have to abide by state certification standards and could not racially discriminate. Chubb and Moe also suggest that there could be extra financial incentives to encourage schools to accept problem students. Thus even potential dropouts would have an alternative to their local...
...most controversial aspect of any voucher plan (a term that Chubb and Moe avoid because of its Friedmanesque heritage) is the idea of permitting private and even parochial schools to compete with public institutions. But Chubb insists that choice plans that allow open enrollment only within the public- school system will not provide enough competition or sufficient diversity. "Public-school choice," he argues, "is merely a demand-side test. There's no change on the supply side...
...harshest attacks against Chubb and Moe have come from some of the educators most sympathetic to incremental reform. "Their book is a profound example of the intellectual community's abandoning our most important democratic institution," claims Bill Honig, the California superintendent of public instruction. The choice model of rewarding schools for attracting students rather than successfully educating them troubles Albert Shanker, the president of the American Federation of Teachers. "If your goal is merely to recruit students," Shanker says, "you can do that by offering a trip to Disneyland or with a good football team...
...debate over educational vouchers can be seen as a symptom of America's loss of faith in liberal government itself, for public schools have always been the collective institution most closely monitored by the people. If, as Chubb and Moe argue, a free market is the only antidote to educational bureaucracy, then virtually all government programs, save tax collection, are implicitly called into question. Yet the crisis in the schools is so severe that vouchers must be seriously considered, which is why Dick and Jane seem well on their way toward becoming free-market conservatives...