Word: peterkin
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Based on an examination of Controlled Choice in Cambridge schools, D'Alessandro developed a similar program last year with Willie and Robert Peterkin of the Harvard Urban Superintendent's Program...
Advocates of school choice say parents should be allowed to send their children to other school districts than the one in which they live. But Keppel Lecturer on Education Policy and Administration Robert S. Peterkin criticized the program, saying that the debate about such choice plans has been "political and not educational...
...Choice is not a solution and has very little to do with education," Peterkin said, pointing to problems of unequal funding, transportation and racial segregation associated with such plans...
...takes money to bring students from worse school districts into better ones because you have to bring them up to par," Peterkin said. "Some--not all--of the students coming from the worse districts will have academic needs that the students already in the system don't have. At least some of the funds would have to go to helping these youngsters catch...
While Cambridge Rindge and Latin does operate a program under which tuition-paying students from outside districts can attend classes, Peterkin estimated that 10 to 15 per cent of the high school's current students are actually Boston residents sneaking into the system from across the river...