Educational Opportunity, Parental Choice and Community: The Case for Reforming Public Education.

Autor/in	Hawkins, Robert B., Jr.
Institution	Sequoia Inst., San Jose, Sacramento, CA.
Titel	Educational Opportunity, Parental Choice and Community: The Case for Reforming Public Education.
Quelle	(1982), (10 Seiten)Verfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Tabellen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Citizen Participation; Citizenship Responsibility; Civil Liberties; Educational Improvement; Educational Opportunities; Educational Quality; Elementary Secondary Education; Enrollment Trends; Government School Relationship; Moral Issues; Parent School Relationship; Private Education; Public Opinion; Public Schools; School Choice; School Community Relationship; School Effectiveness; School Support; Student Rights + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? 'Citizen participation; Citizens'' participation'; Bürgerbeteiligung; Teaching improvement; Unterrichtsentwicklung; Bildungsangebot; Bildungschance; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Moraltheorie; Parent-school relationship; Parent school relationships; Parent-school relationships; Parent-school relation; Parent school relation; Eltern-Schule-Beziehung; Privatunterricht; Öffentliche Meinung; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Choice of school; Schulwahl; Schuleffizienz; Schulförderverein
Abstract	For the last 10 years, polling data have recorded a consistent decline in the American citizen's support for public education. While public schools experienced an 8 percent decline in enrollment between 1968 and 1978, private school enrollment grew by 12 percent. The decline in quality of public education over the last 50 years appears strongly related to increasing pressures toward centralization and a steady increase in government control. Centralization and state control have resulted in withdrawn parental authority and decreased public school diversity. Public school improvement now depends on the creation of policy options for competitive public school systems that would restore the full participation of individual citizens to educational policy-making. Such participation does not necessarily mean a decentralized system, but one based on foundations of choice, opportunity, and community. These moral principles would be served at the state level by guaranteeing, for example, the rights of all students to attend any public school in their state and of all citizens to form their own school systems. Federal policy should demonstrate remewed support for individuals rather than institutions, through such policies as voucherizing Title 1 funds to maximize the choices available to disadvantaged students to obtain remedial work and compensating schools on the basis of performance criteria. (JBM)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2004/1/01