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...don’t think we can do school reform and say it stops at the school doors,” said Associate Professor of Education and Psychology Gil G. Noam, who chairs the program. “The whole point is to strengthen the learning side of afterschool programs without making them like schools...
...media attention obscures the complex reality of the voucher debate. Supreme Court victory or no, day-to-day hurdles continue in classrooms and legislatures. Moreover, institutional challenges escalate as communities must define the bounds of “public education” before they can move forward with reform. But most Americans are reluctant to embrace the empowerment that comes with school choice. The public is as resistant to funding parochial education as ever before because it is wary of breaching the separation of church and state. However, discussion didn’t end with Zelman—rather...
...agenda of reform moves to local school districts, it has become clear that the debate there is far from polarized. Vouchers and school choice do not cut along clean party lines. Nor can we blame white suburbanites for stymieing voucher programs in order to maintain demographic hegemony of their schools. By contrast, today’s alliances are nuanced and dynamic: black leaders, for example, increasingly see vouchers as a means of integration and opportunity, displacing a longstanding fear of socioeconomic segregation. The current confusion about the effects of school choice still preclude mass political support for any one form...
...aware of the educational challenges they have a chance to help meet. While students have long dedicated themselves to mentoring and tutoring, they are starting to engage with education as an issue of public policy. Weekly, members of the Harvard Initiative for School Choice discuss recent developments in educational reform, hoping to someday better public schooling. In addition, undergraduates with diverse academic interests are attending lectures at the Graduate School for Education and are speaking out at student-run debates on school vouchers...
Slade says he is optimistic about the chances for reform within the fraternity. One Harvard member who graduated last year appealed directly to the international organization about the clause’s explicit wording, and the Grand Council now plans to address the issue at its next meeting. “There has been a steady pressure on the international fraternity to evolve,” Slade says. While the 147-year-old organization is not likely to change its traditions overnight, Slade says he feels the fraternity members actually benefit from the controversy. “It requires...