Charter Schools, Choice, and Distributive Justice: What Evidence Do We Need?

Autor/in	Strike, Kenneth
Titel	Charter Schools, Choice, and Distributive Justice: What Evidence Do We Need?
Quelle	In: Theory and Research in Education, 8 (2010) 1, S.63-78 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1477-8785
DOI	10.1177/1477878509356343
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Charter Schools; School Restructuring; Social Justice; School Choice; Equal Education; Educational Change; Governance; Educational Quality; Academic Achievement; Minority Groups; New York + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Charter school; Charter-Schule; Schulreformplan; Schulumwandlung; Soziale Gerechtigkeit; Choice of school; Schulwahl; Bildungsreform; Education; Educational policy; Financing; Steuerung; Bildung; Erziehung; Bildungspolitik; Finanzierung; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Schulleistung; Ethnische Minderheit
Abstract	This article looks at charter schools from the perspective of distributive justice. It suggests three principles of distributive justice that should be satisfied by schools: the adequacy principle, the equity principle, and the communicative principle. "It also sketches the justice argument for charter schools and uses the three principles to examine it". The focus of the article concerns the kinds of evidence required to decide if charter schools promote distributive justice. It argues that a focus on distributive justice helps to formulate a suitably broad view of what evidence is required that serves as a corrective to the excessive emphasis on test scores that characterizes much of the empirical work on school reform. The article also considers the claim that charter schools are more effective than other public schools because they create competition. It argues that an alternative explanation of their (alleged) success is that they are more communal. (Contains 7 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10